Books to scare you
Thousands of book community members have contributed to this survey so far, with these 78 books being the most frequently mentioned for books that left them scared.
scary book recommendations
books to leave you frightened
Annihilation - Jeff Vandermeer || Cujo - Stephen King || Helpmeet - Naben Ruthnum || How to Sell a Haunted House - Grady Hendrix || It - Stephen King || Men Who Hate Women - Laura Bates || Nuclear War - Annie Jacobsen || Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury || The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty || The Lamb - Lucy Rose || The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis || The Twisted Ones - T. Kingfisher || When the Reckoning Comes- LaTanya McQueen || Gone to See the River Man- Kristopher Triana || Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng - Kylie Lee Baker || Dead Silence - S. A. Barnes || Hex - Thomas Olde Heuvelt || I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream - Harlan Ellison || Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton || Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia || Our Share of Night - Mariana Enriquez || Sour Candy - Kealan Patrick Burke || The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon - Stephen King || The Luminous Dead - Caitlin Starling || The Shining - Stephen King || The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman || You Weren't Meant to be Human - Andrew Joseph White || Brother - Ania Alhborn || Bird Box - Josh Malerman || Dracula - Bram Stoker || Home Before Dark - Riley Sager || I'll Be Gone in the Dark - Michelle McNamara || Knock Knock, Open Wide - Neil Sharpson || Misery - Stephen King || Parable of the Sower - Octavia E. Butler || Stolen Tongues - Felix Blackwell || The Hacienda - Isabel Cañas || The Only Good Indians - Stephen Graham Jones || The Silent Companions - Laura Purcell || This Thing Between Us - Gus Moreno || Perfect Days-Raphael Montes || The Haar - David Sodergren || Bloodchild by Octavia E. Butler || From Below - Darcy Coates || Horror Movie - Paul Tremblay || I'm Thinking of Ending Things - Iain Reid || Lakewood - Megan Giddings || Near the Bone - Christina Henry || Penpal - Dathan Auerbach || Tender is the Flesh - Agustina Bazterrica || The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood || The Patient - Jasper DeWitt || The Sluts - Dennis Cooper || Uzumaki - Junji Ito || The Woman in Black - Susan Hill || || Blindness - José Saramago || Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk || Horrorstör - Grady Hendrix || Incidents Around the House - Josh Malerman || Let the Right One In - John Ajvide Lindqvist || Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology || Pet Sematary - Stephen King || The Black Farm - Elias Witherow || The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson || The Reformatory - Tananarive Due || the Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix || We Used to Live Here - Marcus Kliewer || At Night All Blood Is Black- David Diop || || Come Closer - Sara Gran || Heart-Shaped Box - Joe Hill || House of Leaves - Mark Z Danielewski || Into the Drowning Deep - Mira Grant || Lock Every Door - Riley Sager || No Exit - Taylor Adams || Pretty Girls - Karin Slaughter || The Buffalo Hunter Hunter - Stephen Graham Jones || The Hollow Places - T. Kingfisher || The Ruins - Scott Smith || The Troop - Nick Cutter || When No One is Watching - Alyssa Cole || What Lies Between Us- John Marrs ||
