Book List: Horror

How fun! I stumbled across this book list entitled 100 Novels All Horror Fans Must Read. As stated by the website, "horror might be the oldest emotion known to mankind, which explains why it is such a prevalent genre of literature." The creator's of the website go on to warn the readers that "very little of this is … easy reading." Do you think that means because they are.. gruesome..?

1. The Monk – by Matthew Lewis
2. Dracula – by Bram Stoker
3. Frankenstein – by Mary Shelley
4. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – by Robert Louis Stevenson
5. The Castle of Otronto – by Horace Walpole
6. The Picture of Dorian Gray – by Oscar Wilde
7. Vathek – by William Beckford
8. The Italian – by Ann Radcliffe
9. The Missing – by Sarah Langan
10. Headstone City – by Tom Piccirilli
11. The Deceased – by Tom Piccirilli
12. Interview with the Vampire – by Anne Rice
13. The String of Pearls: A Romance – by multiple authors
14. The Stand – by Stephen King
15. Salem’s Lot – by Stephen King
16. The Shining – by Stephen King
17. It – by Stephen King
18. The Midwich Cuckoos – by John Wyndham
19. Ghost Story – by Peter Straub
20. Shadowland – by Peter Straub
21. Darkness, Tell Us – by Richard Laymon
22. Funland – by Richard Laymon
23. Blood of the Land – by Thomas F. Monteleone
24. They Thirst – by Robert R. McCammon
25. Swan’s Song – by Robert R. McCammon
26. Blue World – by Robert R. McCammon
27. The Hellbound Heart – by Clive Barker
28. American Psycho – by Bret Easton Ellis
29. The Keep – by F. Paul Wilson
30. Blood Dance – by Joe R. Lansdale
31. Monster Island – by David Wellington
32. The House of Seven Gables – by Nathaniel Hawthorne
33. Abandon – by Blake Crouch
34. Heart-Shaped Box – by Joe Hill
35. The Alienist – by Caleb Carr
36. Afraid – by Jack Kilborn
37. One Thousand and One Ghosts – by Alexandre Dumas
38. Darkly Dreaming Dexter – by Jeff Lindsay
39. Red Dragon – by Thomas Harris
40. The Silence of the Lambs – by Thomas Harris
41. The Ruins – by Scott Smith
42. Coma – by Robin Cook
43. Whispers – by Dean Koontz
44. Watchers – by Dean Koontz
45. Lightning – by Dean Koontz
46. The Stepford Wives – by Ira Levin
47. Rosemary’s Baby – by Ira Levin
48. The Phantom of the Opera – by Gaston Leroux
49. I Am Legend – by Richard Matheson
50. Hell House – by Richard Matheson
51. Creature – by John Saul
52. By Reason of Insanity – by Shane Stevens
53. The Book of Days – by Steve Rasnic Tem
54. Slob – by Rex Miller
55. Drawing Blood – by Poppy Z. Brite
56. The Girl Next Door – by Jack Ketchum
57. Ladies’ Night – by Jack Ketchum
58. The Shaft – by David Schow
59. The Light at the End – by John Skipp & Craig Spector
60. The End of Alice – by A. M. Homes
61. Conjure Wife – by Fritz Leiber
62. World War Z – by Max Brooks
63. Hollowland – by Amada Hocking
64. Ashes – by Scott Nicholson
65. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies – by Seth Grahame-Smith
66. 33 A.D. – by David McAfee
67. Carrion Comfort – by Dan Simmons
68. Creepers – by David Morrell
69. Dead Until Dark – by Charlaine Harris
70. The Human Chord – by Algernon Blackwood
71. Twilight – by Stephenie Meyer
72. Psycho – by Robert Bloch
73. The Exorcist – by William Peter Blatty
74. The Wolfen – by Whitley Strieber
75. Lizzie Borden – by Elizabeth Engstrom
76. Midnight Sun – by Ramsey Campbell
77. The False House – by James Stoddard
78. Sex and Violence in Hollywood – by Ray Garton
79. The Haunting of Hill House – by Shirley Jackson
80. We Have Always Live in the Castle – by Shirley Jackson
81. The Rising – by Brian Keene
82. Face – by Tim Lebbon
83. Hotel Transylvania – by Chelsea Quinn Yarbor
84. The Case of Charles Dexter Ward – by H. P. Lovecraft
85. Necroscope – by Brian Lumley
86. The Tain – by China Mieville
87. Serenity Falls – by James A. Moore
88. Zombie – by Joyce Carol Oates
89. American Gods – by Neil Gaiman
90. Skeletons – by Al Sarrontonio
91. Live Girls – by Ray Garton
92. Geek Love – by Katherine Dunn
93. My Soul to Keep – by Tananarive Due
94. Wuthering Heights – by Emily Bronte
95. The Fog – by James Herbert
96. The Spear – by James Herbert
97. Audrey Rose – by Frank De Felitta
98. Ratman’s Notebooks – by Stephen Gilbert
99. Carmilla (novella) – by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
100. The Dark is Rising – by Susan Cooper