Best Horror Books

A death row corrections officer in 1930s Louisiana encounters a gentle giant with miraculous healing powers awaiting execution for a crime he may not have committed.

Beautiful Dorian Gray makes a Faustian bargain — his portrait ages and corrupts in his place — while Lord Henry Wotton's philosophy of pleasure guides him toward increasingly dark excesses.

Victor Frankenstein's obsessive creation of life — and his abandonment of the creature he brings into being — with consequences that pursue them both to the ends of the earth.

A recovering alcoholic writer takes a winter caretaker job at a remote Colorado hotel where the building's evil history begins to consume his sanity and endanger his family.

A superflu kills 99% of the human population, and the survivors are drawn into a final confrontation between the forces of good and evil across the ruins of America.

The tempestuous, obsessive love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw across two generations on the wild Yorkshire moors.

Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to assist Count Dracula with a London property purchase — and discovers that his host is a centuries-old vampire with designs on England.

Seven children in a small Maine town band together to fight an ancient evil that preys on their fears — and are called back as adults to finish what they started.

A bestselling novelist is nursed back to health by his self-proclaimed number one fan after a car accident, and discovers that his rescue has become his captivity.

A family moves to rural Maine and discovers a burial ground in the woods with the power to resurrect the dead — with devastating consequences.

Roland Deschain, the last gunslinger, pursues the man in black across a vast desert in the first volume of Stephen King's magnum opus.

A seemingly airtight case against a beloved teacher accused of murder begins to unravel when impossible evidence suggests someone — or something — else was responsible.

A telekinetic teenage girl pushed to the breaking point by her fanatical mother and bullying classmates unleashes catastrophic revenge on her entire town.

A middle-aged Danny Torrance, now a hospice worker battling alcoholism, must protect a young girl with extraordinary psychic powers from a tribe of psychic vampires.

A teenage boy inherits a shed that contains a portal to a dark fairy-tale kingdom, and must enter it to save a world he barely understands.

A mysterious new shop opens in Castle Rock, Maine — and its proprietor offers every customer exactly what they desire, at a price that will destroy the town.

In 1950s Mexico, glamorous socialite Noemí Taboada investigates her cousin's mysterious illness at a decaying English family's remote estate — and uncovers something monstrous.

The twelfth expedition into the mysterious Area X sends four unnamed women scientists into an environment that defies biological and physical understanding.

Retired FBI profiler Will Graham, who was nearly killed capturing Hannibal Lecter, is called back to help catch a serial killer called the Tooth Fairy — and must return to Lecter's cell to get inside the new killer's mind.

In a small Illinois town in October, a carnival arrives just after midnight — Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show — and two thirteen-year-old boys discover that its attractions offer exactly what people most desire, at a price that cannot be paid.

A young governess at a remote English estate becomes convinced that the children in her charge are in contact with the malevolent spirits of two dead servants.