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The Best Horror Books

Top 100 Horror Books

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This list continues directly from the Top 25 Best Horror Books, starting at #26 and ending at #100. It brings together more Stephen King (Pet Sematary, It, The Stand and Salem's Lot), Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby, Richard Matheson's I Am Legend and dozens of other novels that shaped the genre.

The gothic classics, the paperback horror boom, modern literary horror: seventy-five books that show how wide the genre is. Start with the Top 25 if you have not read it, then come here for the next 75, and vote for your own favourites to move them up the list.

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This list starts at #26: it continues the Top 25, with the books ranked #26 to #100.

27
It

It

by King, Stephen

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28
The Stand

The Stand

by King, Stephen

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29
Salem's Lot

Salem's Lot

by King, Stephen

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31
Rosemary's Baby

Rosemary's Baby

by Ira Levin

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32
I Am Legend

I Am Legend

by Matheson, Richard

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33
The Ruins

The Ruins

by Scott Smith

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38
Bird Box

Bird Box

by Josh Malerman

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39
The Historian

The Historian

by Kostova, Elizabeth

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43
The Hollow Places

The Hollow Places

by Kingfisher, T

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44
The Elementals

The Elementals

by Michael McDowell

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45
Burnt Offerings

Burnt Offerings

by Robert Marasco

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