Most Popular Horror Books
Explore the most popular Horror books across decades, with reader ratings and discoveries from Risingshadow.
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New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird
Horror · Anthology
November 2011Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre
Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction
July 2011Ass Goblins of Auschwitz
Horror · Science Fiction · Bizarro Fiction
2009A Gathering of Vultures
Fantasy · Horror
2007The Collected Fantasies #1
The End of the Story
Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Weird Fiction · Short Stories
2007The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
Horror · Weird Fiction · Short Stories
2007The Shadow at the Bottom of the World
Horror · Short Stories
2005Shadows Over Innsmouth #1
Shadows Over Innsmouth
Horror · Cthulhu · Psychological Horror · Weird Fiction · Anthology
1994Books of Blood (omnibus editions)
Books of Blood: Volumes 1-3
Horror · Short Stories
1988Dark Gods
Horror · Short Stories
1985The Dracula Horror Series #6
The Witching of Dracula
Horror
1974The Birds and Other Stories
Horror · Short Stories · Mystery
1952Beyond the Wall of Sleep
Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Weird Fiction · Short Stories
1943The Connoisseur and Other Stories
Horror · Short Stories
1926Estate Sale
Horror · Psychological Horror · Weird Fiction
July 16, 2025British Library Tales of the Weird #57
Weird Sisters
Horror · Gothic Horror · Psychological Horror · Weird Fiction · Anthology
January 16, 2025Creatures & Teachers #1
Dread Detention
Horror · Middle Grade
February 13, 2024Weird Tales
Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction
October 10, 2023The Canal and Other Weird Stories
Horror · Ghosts · Gothic Horror · Psychological Horror · Vampires
February 15, 2023John Decker Supernatural Thrillers #14
Night Wraith
Horror · Mystery · Thriller
November 20, 20232000 AD Encyclopedia
Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Graphic Novels · Comics
February 15, 2022These Long Teeth of the Night: The Best Short Stories 1999-2019
Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Magical Realism · Short Stories
2022The Last Kids on Earth #7
The Last Kids on Earth: Thrilling Tales from the Tree House
Horror · Science Fiction · Young Adult
April 6, 2021The Last Kids on Earth #6
Thrilling Tales from the Tree House
Horror · Science Fiction · Young Adult
April 6, 2021Eibonvale Chapbook Line #19
Affairs of a Cardiovascular Nature
Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Short Stories
March 2021The Classified Dossier #1
The Classified Dossier - Sherlock Holmes and Count Dracula
Fantasy · Horror · Vampires · Sherlock Holmes · Mystery
October 19, 2021The Ghost Tracks
Horror · Dark Fantasy
November 2, 2021Weird World War III
Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Military Science Fiction · Anthology
October 6, 2020Devoted
Horror
March 31, 2020Dracula's Child
Horror
September 22, 2020Eden
Horror · Science Fiction · Thriller
April 7, 2020Sooty Feathers #2
Lord of the Hunt
Fantasy · Horror · Dark Fantasy · Historical Fantasy · Urban Fantasy
March 20, 2020Taaqtumi #1
Taaqtumi
Fantasy · Horror · Ghosts · Post-Apocalyptic · Psychological Horror
September 10, 2019Keyhole
Horror · Short Stories
2019The Child Cephalina
Horror · Gothic Horror
November 2019Eibonvale Chapbook Line #15
Tomorrow, When I Was Young
Fantasy · Horror · Dark Fantasy
October 2019