Top Ten Scariest Horror Novels

Sometimes, if you want a good fright, the best place to find a good scare is at your public library. These horror novels are scary enough to top some of the best horror movies.
The Top Ten
1 The Shining - Stephen King

Maybe the scariest haunted house novel? Absolutely terrifying.

An all time favorite but not the scariest novel ever.

This book isn't scary at all

2 The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
3 The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty
4 Dracula - Bram Stoker
5 American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
6 Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
7 They Thirst - Robert McCammon
8 Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk
9 Incarnate - Ramsey Campbell
10 The Cellar - Richard Laymon
The Contenders
11 The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
12 Carrion Comfort - Dan Simmons

That face looks so creepy

13 Phantoms - Dean Koontz
14 The Terror - Dan Simmons
15 The Damnation Game - Clive Barker
16 Ghost Story - Peter Straub
17 It - Stephen King
18 Hell House - Richard Matheson
19 Pet Sematary - Steven King

If you can't even spell the authors name right, then this book shouldn't be on this list. I think Zoo should be way higher!

Horrifying if you read this and the ending doesn't petrify you there is something very inhuman about you.

20 Zoo - James Patterson

Go to a local bookstore and buy this book. Read it. It's worth the money!

I'm afraid to go outside now

21 Psycho - Robert Bloch
22 Misery - Stephen King
23 The Rats - James Herbert
24 The Doll - Rex Sparger
25 Floating Dragon - Peter Straub
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