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The 40 Best Horror Novels
According to Horror Writers Poll
~~And they ought to know! Right?
The HORROR WRITERS OF AMERICA recently took a vote on what it considers
the 40 greatest all-time horror books (both novels and short story
collection), in order of rank (most votes = #1):
The Forty Greatest Horror Books
1. "The Haunting of Hill House", by Shirley Jackson [Viking, 1959; Popular]
2. "The Exorcist", by William Peter Blatty
3. "Something Wicked This Way Comes", by Ray Bradbury [Simon & Schuster, 1962; Bantam]
4. "Frankenstein", by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
5. "Dracula", by Bram Stoker
6. "I Am Legend", by Richard Matheson
7. "Pet Sematary", by Stephen King
8. "Lovers Living, Lovers Dead", by Richard Lortz
9. "Raven", by Charles L. Grant
10. "The Hungry Moon", by Ramsey Campbell
11. "Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood", by Algernon Blackwood
12. "Ghoul", by Michael Slade
13. "Conjure Wife", by Fritz Leiber
14. "Sacrifice", by Andrew Vachss
15. "Lost Souls", by Poppy Bright
16. "Rosemary's Baby", by Ira Levin
17. "The Between", by Tananarive Due
18. "Skin", by Kathe Koja
19. "The Hill of Dreams", by Arthur Machen
20. "The Dunwich Horror and Others", by H. P. Lovecraft
21. "The Lottery and Other Stories", by Shirley Jackson
22. "Metamorphosis and Other Stories", by Franz Kafka
23. "Dead in the Water", by Nancy Holder
24. "Dr. Adder", by K. W. Jeter
25. "Dark Dance", by Tanith Lee
26. "Some of Your Blood", by Theodore Sturgeon
27. "The Ghost Stories of M. R. James", by M. R. James
28. "Phantom", by Thomas Tessier
29. "Turn of the Screw", by Henry James
30. "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", by Robert Louis Stephenson
31. "The Shining", by Stephen King
32. "Vampire Junction", by S. P. Somtow
33. "Tales of Horror and the Supernatural", by Arthur Machen
34. "Relic", by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Childs
35. "At the Mountains of Madness", by H. P. Lovecraft
36. "Sineater", by Elizabeth Massie
37. "Book of the Dead", edited by John Skipp & Craig Spector
38. "Darklands", by Dennis Etchison
39. "The Stand", by Stephen King
40. "Songs of a Dead Dreamer", by Thomas Ligotti
More Best Books Pages to Come!
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