The Greatest Supernatural Books of All Time

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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
4955 Black God's Shadow C. L. Moore 1934 American English
4955 Uncanny Stories May Sinclair 1923 British English
4955 The Human Chord Algernon Blackwood 1910 British English
4997 A Nest Of Nightmares Lisa Tuttle 1986 American English
4997 The Pet Charles L. Grant 1986 American English
5011 The Hungry Moon Ramsey Campbell 1986 British English
5038 Storm Front Jim Butcher 2000 American English
5043 The Death Of Halpin Frayser Ambrose Bierce 1891 American English
5043 The White Old Maid Nathaniel Hawthorne 1837 American English
5043 The Sandman E. T. A. Hoffmann 1816 German German
5043 The Supernatural In English Romantic Poetry, 1780 1830 Sukumar Dutt 1932 Unknown English
5043 The Wolf Leader Alexandre Dumas 1857 French French
5043 For The Blood Is The Life F. Marion Crawford 1905 American English
5043 Still She Wished For Company Margaret Irwin 1924 British English
5043 Devil's Tor David Lindsay 1932 British English
5043 Maker Of Shadows Jack Mann 1939 British English
5043 Grey Shapes Jack Mann 1937 British English
5112 Let The Right One In John Ajvide Lindqvist 2004 Swedish Swedish
5129 The Influence Ramsey Campbell 1988 British English
5171 Ghost Stories H. Russell Wakefield 1928 British English
5171 Slaves Of Sleep L. Ron Hubbard 1939 American English
5171 Adept's Gambit Fritz Leiber 1947 American English
5171 Best Tales E. T. A. Hoffmann 1814 German German
5171 War In Heaven Charles Williams 1930 British English
5188 Washington Irving's Tales Of The Supernatural Washington Irving 1824 American English
5188 The Wind In The Rose Bush Mary E. Wilkins Freeman 1903 American English
5188 To Walk The Night William M. Sloane 1937 American English
5188 The Smoking Leg John Metcalfe 1925 British English
5188 Armadale Wilkie Collins 1866 British English
5188 The Ghostly Tales Of Henry James Henry James 1898 American English
5188 Some Ghost Stories A. M. Burrage 1934 British English
5188 A Century Of Creepy Stories Hugh Walpole 1934 British English
5188 Collected Ghost Stories Mrs. Joseph H. Riddell 1882 British English
5188 A Strange Story Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1862 British English
5226 The Green Face Gustav Meyrink 1916 German German
5227 The Ringstones And Other Curious Tales Sarban 1951 British English
5228 The Howling Man Charles Beaumont 1960 American English
5229 Whispers Stuart David Schiff 1977 American English
5231 Dark Feasts Ramsey Campbell 1987 British English
5252 The Boats Of The "Glen Carrig" William Hope Hodgson 1907 British English
5252 Carnacki The Ghost Finder William Hope Hodgson 1913 British English
5281 Declare Tim Powers 2000 American English
5307 The Devil Rides Out Dennis Wheatley 1934 British English
5315 The Vampire Tapestry Suzy McKee Charnas 1980 American English
5380 Bluenose Ghosts Helen Creighton 1969 Canadian English
5392 Complete Plays And Poems Christopher Marlowe 1587 British English
5513 The Shadow Over Innsmouth H. P. Lovecraft 1936 American English
5514 Hell House Richard Matheson 1971 American English
5518 The Willows Algernon Blackwood 1907 British English
5520 Sleep No More August Derleth 1944 American English
5526 Not After Midnight Daphne du Maurier 1971 British English
5618 Our Share of Night Mariana Enríquez 2019 Argentinian Spanish
5665 New Terrors Ramsey Campbell 1980 British English
5682 Frights Kirby McCauley 1980 American English
5714 Hotel Transylvania Chelsa quinn yarbro 1978 American English
5758 Come Closer Sara Gran 2003 American English
5776 The Stealer Of Souls Michael Moorcock 1963 British English
5825 Moralia Plutarch -100 Greek Greek
5898 The Ghost Sonata August Strindberg 1907 Swedish Swedish
5912 The Third Ghost Book Cynthia Asquith 1955 British English
5966 Incarnate Ramsey Campbell 1983 British English
5994 The Sacred Book Of The Werewolf Victor Pelevin 2004 Russian Russian
6073 Earthfasts William Mayne 1966 British English
6140 Cry Horror! H. P. Lovecraft 1963 American English
6146 The Historian Elizabeth Kostova 2005 American English
6230 Shadowland Peter Straub 1980 American English
6244 A Discovery Of Witches Deborah Harkness 2011 American English
6245 Skeleton Crew Stephen King 1985 American English
6280 Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark Alvin Schwartz 1981 American English
6317 Greenwitch Susan Cooper 1974 British English
6404 Dark Prince Christine Feehan 1999 American English
6463 Things We Lost In The Fire Mariana Enríquez 2016 Argentinian Spanish
6479 Who Fears The Devil? Manly Wade Wellman 1963 American English
6491 Neither The Sea Nor The Sand Gordon Honeycombe 1969 British English
6535 The Fog James Herbert 1975 British English
6560 The Wind Eye Robert Westall 1973 British English
6609 Nos4 A2 Joe Hill 2013 American English
6610 The Collected Strange Stories Of Robert Aickman Robert Aickman 1999 British English
6668 Strange Pilgrims Gabriel García Márquez 1992 Colombian Spanish
6675 Uzumaki Junji Ito 1998 Japanese Japanese
6679 The Imago Sequence And Other Stories Laird Barron 2007 American English
6692 Night Visitors Julia Briggs 1977 British Unknown
6701 A Touch Of Chill Joan Aiken 1974 American English
6728 The Relic Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child 1995 American English
6789 The Investigation Stanislaw Lem 1959 Polish Polish
6794 Elegant Nightmares Jack Sullivan 1978 American English
6797 Oh, Whistle, And I'll Come To You, My Lad M. R. James 1904 British English
6808 The Queen Of The Damned Anne Rice 1988 American English
6810 Down A Dark Hall Lois Duncan 1974 American English
6859 A Head Full Of Ghosts Paul Tremblay 2015 American English
6910 The Wounded Land Stephen R. Donaldson 1980 American English
6923 The Monkey's Paw W. W. Jacobs 1902 British English
6928 The Repairer Of Reputations Robert W. Chambers 1895 American English
6933 The Tell Tale Heart And Other Writings Edgar Allan Poe 1843 American English
6944 Elizabeth Ken Greenhall 1976 American English
6964 The Seance and Other Stories Isaac Bashevis Singer 1968 Polish Yiddish
7011 Ancestral Shadows Russell Kirk 2004 American English
7011 Green Tea Sheridan Le Fanu 2004 Irish English
7159 Midnight Sun Ramsey Campbell 1990 British English
7199 The Nightwalker Thomas Tessier 1979 American English
7204 Hounded Kevin Hearne 2011 American English
7215 Tales And Sketches Nathaniel Hawthorne 1837 American English
7215 Strange Tales From A Chinese Studio Pu Songling 1740 Chinese Classical chinese
7594 The Reformatory Tananarive Due 2023 American English
7605 Les Praticiens De L'infernal Pierre La Police 1993 French French
7615 Crossfire Miyuki Miyabe 1998 Japanese Japanese
7635 The Drawing Of The Dark Tim Powers 1979 American English
7636 Angels' Blood Nalini Singh 2009 New Zealander English
7640 Lake Of The Devil Jessica Amanda Salmonson 1980 American English
7670 14 Peter Clines 2012 American English
7684 A Master of Djinn P. Djèlí Clark 2021 American English
7690 Dark Gods T. E. D. Klein 1985 American English
7701 The Buffalo Hunter Hunter Stephen Graham Jones 2025 American English
7727 Cast A Cold Eye Alan Ryan 1984 American English
7727 Usher's Passing Robert R. McCammon 1984 American English
7745 The Sending Geoffrey Household 1980 British English
7757 The Hunger Whitley Strieber 1981 American English
7757 The Living Dead James Twitchell 1981 Unknown English
7782 The Gunslinger Stephen King 1982 American English
7846 The Case Against Satan Ray Russell 1962 American English