The Greatest Horror Books Since 2000

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
607 House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski 2000 American English
2646 Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor 2017 Mexican Spanish
3048 Fever Dream Samanta Schweblin 2014 Argentinian Spanish
3082 Under the Skin Michel Faber 2000 British English
3541 Her Body and Other Parties Carmen Maria Machado 2017 American English
3886 Lunar Park Bret Easton Ellis 2005 American English
4458 The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman 2008 British English
4533 Annihilation Jeff VanderMeer 2014 American English
4654 Coraline Neil Gaiman 2002 British English
4932 The Terror Dan Simmons 2007 American English
5010 Zone One Colson Whitehead 2011 American English
5112 Let The Right One In John Ajvide Lindqvist 2004 Swedish Swedish
5153 Cursed Bunny Bora Chung 2021 Korean Korean
5462 The Animals In That Country Laura Jean McKay 2020 Australian English
5593 World War Z Max Brooks 2006 American English
5617 Our Share of Night Mariana Enríquez 2019 Argentinian Spanish
5810 John Dies At The End David Wong 2007 American English
6145 The Historian Elizabeth Kostova 2005 American English
6155 The God Of The Woods Liz Moore 2024 Unknown English
6295 Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children Ransom Riggs 2011 American English
6608 Nos4 A2 Joe Hill 2013 American English
6661 You Caroline Kepnes 2014 American English
6679 The Imago Sequence And Other Stories Laird Barron 2007 American English
6697 The Tattooist Of Auschwitz Heather Morris 2018 Australian English
6699 The Little Stranger Sarah Waters 2009 British English
6801 Bird Box Josh Malerman 2014 American English
6859 A Head Full Of Ghosts Paul Tremblay 2015 American English
7011 Ancestral Shadows Russell Kirk 2004 American English
7011 Green Tea Sheridan Le Fanu 2004 Irish English
7050 The Changeling Victor LaValle 2017 American English
7086 There Once Lived A Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbour’s Baby Ludmila Petrushevskaya 2009 Russian Russian
7103 Get In Trouble Kelly Link 2015 American English
7108 The Children Of The Dead Elfriede Jelinek 2024 Austrian German
7581 Feed Seanan McGuire 2010 American English
7584 Verity Colleen Hoover 2018 American English
7594 The Reformatory Tananarive Due 2023 American English
7670 14 Peter Clines 2012 American English
7697 The Ruins Scott Smith 2006 American English
7701 The Buffalo Hunter Hunter Stephen Graham Jones 2025 American English
7734 Stag Dance Torrey Peters 2025 American English
7760 Black Leopard, Red Wolf Marlon James 2019 Jamaican English
7858 Phantom Evil Heather Graham Pozzessere 2011 American English
7882 Mexican Gothic Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2020 Mexican English
7887 The Vampire Queen's Servant Joey W. Hill 2007 American English
7929 Winterwood Patrick McCabe 2006 Irish English
7983 The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman 2013 British English
8066 Bunny Mona Awad 2019 Canadian English
8189 The Fisherman John Langan 2016 American English
8229 Frankenstein In Baghdad Ahmed Saadawi 2013 Iraqi Arabic
8288 They Will Drown In Their Mother’s Tears Johannes Anyuru 2017 Swedish Swedish
8313 The Bottoms Joe R. Lansdale 2000 American English
8428 Those Across The River Christopher Buehlman 2011 American English
8431 The Gentleman In Black James Dalton 2009 Unknown Unknown
8455 Penpal Dathan Kahn Auerbach 2012 American English
8464 La Dama Número Trece José Carlos Somoza 2003 Spanish Spanish
8517 Sourdough And Other Stories Angela Slatter 2010 Australian English
8635 Patient Zero Jonathan Maberry 2009 American English
8653 Punct și De La Capăt Gabriel Chifu 2014 Romanian Romanian
8649 Victorian Psycho Virginia Feito 2025 Unknown English
8983 Bury Our Bones In The Midnight Soil V. E. Schwab 2025 Unknown English
9070 The Town That Forgot How To Breathe Kenneth J. Harvey 2003 Canadian English
9175 Anima Wajdi Mouawad 2012 French French
9244 The Red Tree Caitlín R. Kiernan 2009 American English
9251 White Is For Witching Helen Oyeyemi 2009 British English
9260 The Memory Police Yōko Ogawa 2024 Japanese Japanese
9332 Authority Jeff VanderMeer 2014 American English
9332 Acceptance Jeff VanderMeer 2014 American English
9338 Ring Koji Suzuki 2002 Japanese Japanese
9588 A Choir Of Ill Children Tom Piccirilli 2004 American English
9670 Frozen Moment Camilla Ceder 2010 Swedish Swedish
9740 The Fire Starters Jan Carson 2019 Irish English
9796 Minion L. A. Banks 2003 American English
9821 The Frozen Dead Bernard Minier 2011 French French
9967 The Silence Of The Sea Yrsa Sigurdardottir 2012 Icelandic Icelandic
9980 The Atrocity Archives Charles Stross 2004 British English
10004 Lone Women Victor LaValle 2023 American English
10017 Mending Bodies Hon Lai-Chu 2010 Chinese Chinese
10117 Through The Woods Emily Carroll 2014 Canadian English
10119 The Invisible Guardian Dolores Redondo 2013 Spanish Spanish
10163 The Devils Joe Abercrombie 2025 British English
10173 The Haunted Wood Sam Leith 2024 Unknown English
10224 The Trees Percival Everett 2021 American English
10293 The Jumbies Tracey Baptiste 2015 Trinidadian English
10295 Whalefall Daniel Kraus 2023 American English
10300 Death Notice Zhou Haohui 2014 Chinese Chinese
10300 The Weight Of Blood Laura McHugh 2014 American English
10355 Wylding Hall Elizabeth Hand 2015 American English
10450 The North Water Ian McGuire 2016 British English
10536 A Sunny Place For Shady People Mariana Enríquez 2024 Unknown Unknown
10669 The Hounding Xenobe Purvis 2025 Unknown English
10683 The Bewitching Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2025 Mexican English
10699 Ghostroots 'Pemi Aguda 2024 Nigerian English
10714 Cursed Daughters Oyinkan Braithwaite 2025 Nigerian English
10862 A Century Of Ghost Stories Richard Sugg 2017 British English
10866 Mr. Splitfoot Samantha Hunt 2016 American English
10880 Somebody Is Walking On Your Grave Mariana Enriquez 2013 Argentine Spanish
10915 The Shining Girls Lauren Beukes 2013 South African English
10934 The Bone Key Sarah Monette 2024 American English
10960 Gideon The Ninth Tamsyn Muir 2019 New Zealand English
10962 Rotters Daniel Kraus 2011 American English
10967 The Hunger Alma Katsu 2018 American English
11030 The Weird Ann VanderMeer 2011 American English
11164 Ghost Wall Sarah Moss 2018 British English
11327 Heart Shaped Box Joe Hill 2007 American English
11387 The Devil In America Kai Ashante Wilson 2014 American English
11401 The Living and the Rest José Eduardo Agualusa 2020 Angolan Portuguese
11416 When No One Is Watching Alyssa Cole 2020 American English
11430 The Troop Nick Cutter 2014 Canadian English
11440 Teatro Grottesco Thomas Ligotti 2006 American English
11468 Furnace Livia Llewellyn 2016 American English
11470 Please, Momma Chesya Burke 2015 American Unknown
11538 Perdido Street Station China Miéville 2000 British English
11606 Forget The Sleepless Shores Sonya Taaffe 2018 American English
11636 Little Star John Ajvide Lindqvist 2010 Swedish Swedish
11800 The Ballad Of Black Tom Victor LaValle 2016 American English
11824 The Wax Child Olga Ravn, Martin Aitken 2023 Danish English
11835 I Gave You Eyes And You Looked Toward Darkness Irene Solà 2023 Unknown Catalan
11921 The Ritual Adam Nevill 2011 British English
11924 Spirit Hunters Ellen Oh 2017 American English
12016 Infidel Pornsak Pichetshote 2018 Unknown English