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25 Best Horror Novels

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1. Psycho - Robert Bloch

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46

8.7

2. Dracula - Bram Stoker

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27

8.6

3. Rosemary's Baby - Ira Levin

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40

8.6

4. At the Mountains of Madness: And Other Tales... - H.P. Lovecraft

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20

8.6

5. Ring - Koji Suzuki

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58

8.5

6. The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty

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483

8.4

7. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

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19

8.3

8. Phantoms - Dean Koontz

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11

8.3

9. Ghost Story - Peter Straub

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11

8.3

10. 'Salem's Lot - Stephen King

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39

8.3

11. The Shining - Stephen King

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15

8.2

12. The Hellbound Heart - Clive Barker

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139

8.1

13. I Am Legend - Richard Matheson

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103

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14. The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris

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16

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15. Hell House - Richard Matheson

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16. Intensity - Dean Koontz

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268

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17. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis

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7.9

18. Red Dragon - Thomas Harris

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103

7.7

19. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson

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556

7.7

20. Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice

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203

7.7

21. The Stand (The Complete and Uncut Edition) - Stephen King

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74

7.7

22. Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus - Mary Shelley

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17

7.6

23. The Haunting of Hill House (Penguin Classics... - Shirley Jackson

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7

7.2

24. Whispers - Dean R. Koontz

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35

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25. The Turn of the Screw (Penguin Popular Class... - Henry James

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The 25 Greatest Horror novels of all time, in my humble opinion ;-)

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Comments

Posted: 1 year, 10 months ago at Jul 20 18:19

wow!
coooool list.

Posted: 1 year, 9 months ago at Aug 22 15:01

Nice list and some of my favorite books, especially for how they were written.

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Posted: 1 year, 5 months ago at Dec 8 5:04

Well you could try Laurell K Hamilton for a mix of both all in one book, or Kerri Arthur also mixes the two genres quite successfuly.
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Posted: 1 year, 1 month ago at Apr 9 21:19

Awesome list. I think I have most of these.

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