51 SCARIEST Books of the Last 200 Years
Because a truly scary story is timeless.
By
Sarah Mangiola | Published May 14, 2019
Grimm's Fairy Tales
By The Brothers Grimm
Frankenstein
By Mary Shelley
Nightmare Abbey
By Thomas Love Peacock
The Vampyre
By John William Polidori
The Fall of the House of Usher
By Edgar Allan Poe
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
By Robert Louis Stevenson
The Picture of Dorian Gray
By Oscar Wilde
The Yellow Wallpaper
By Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The King in Yellow
By Robert W. Chambers
The Turn of the Screw
By Henry James
The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft
By H.P. Lovecraft
The Most Dangerous Game
By Richard Connell
Rebecca
By Daphne du Maurier
The Lottery
By Shirley Jackson
Lord of the Flies
By William Golding
I Am Legend
By Richard Matheson
The Haunting of Hill House
By Shirley Jackson
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
By Ray Bradbury
The Collector
By John Fowles
In Cold Blood
By Truman Capote
Rosemary’s Baby
By Ira Levin
The Exorcist
By William Peter Blatty
Harvest Home
By Thomas Tryon
Crawlspace
By Herbert Lieberman
The Manitou
By Graham Masterton
Requiem for a Dream
By Hubert Selby Jr.
Pet Sematary
By Stephen King
The Wanting
By Campbell Armstrong
The Silence of the Lambs
By Thomas Harris
Swan Song
By Robert R. McCammon
American Psycho
By Bret Easton Ellis
Boy's Life
By Robert R. McCammon
Summer of Night
By Dan Simmons
House of Leaves
By Mark Z. Danielewski
The Black Gondolier
By Fritz Leiber
We Need to Talk About Kevin
By Lionel Shriver
The Resurrection Man's Legacy
By Dale Bailey
The Loveliest Dead
By Ray Garton
Heart-Shaped Box
By Joe Hill
Broken Monsters
By Lauren Beukes
Wylding Hall
By Elizabeth Hand
The Doll-Master
By Joyce Carol Oates
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