Most Popular Horror Books

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New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird

Paula Guran

Horror · Anthology

November 2011

Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre

H. P. Lovecraft

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction

July 2011

Ass Goblins of Auschwitz

Cameron Pierce

Horror · Science Fiction · Bizarro Fiction

2009

A Gathering of Vultures

Donald Michael Platt

Fantasy · Horror

2007

The Collected Fantasies #1

The End of the Story

Clark Ashton Smith

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

2007

The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

Laird Barron

Horror · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

2007

The Shadow at the Bottom of the World

Thomas Ligotti

Horror · Short Stories

2005

Shadows Over Innsmouth #1

Shadows Over Innsmouth

Stephen Jones

Horror · Cthulhu · Psychological Horror · Weird Fiction · Anthology

1994

Books of Blood (omnibus editions)

Books of Blood: Volumes 1-3

Clive Barker

Horror · Short Stories

1988

Dark Gods

T. E. D. Klein

Horror · Short Stories

1985

The Dracula Horror Series #6

The Witching of Dracula

Robert Lory

Horror

1974

The Birds and Other Stories

Daphne du Maurier

Horror · Short Stories · Mystery

1952

Beyond the Wall of Sleep

H. P. Lovecraft

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

1943

The Connoisseur and Other Stories

Walter de la Mare

Horror · Short Stories

1926

Estate Sale

Mia Dalia

Horror · Psychological Horror · Weird Fiction

July 16, 2025

British Library Tales of the Weird #57

Weird Sisters

Mike Ashley

Horror · Gothic Horror · Psychological Horror · Weird Fiction · Anthology

January 16, 2025

Creatures & Teachers #1

Dread Detention

Jennifer Killick

Horror · Middle Grade

February 13, 2024

Weird Tales

Jonathan Maberry

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction

October 10, 2023

The Canal and Other Weird Stories

Everil Worrell

Horror · Ghosts · Gothic Horror · Psychological Horror · Vampires

February 15, 2023

John Decker Supernatural Thrillers #14

Night Wraith

Anthony M. Strong

Horror · Mystery · Thriller

November 20, 2023

2000 AD Encyclopedia

Matt Smith, Scott Montgomery

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Graphic Novels · Comics

February 15, 2022

These Long Teeth of the Night: The Best Short Stories 1999-2019

Alexander Zelenyj

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Magical Realism · Short Stories

2022

The Last Kids on Earth #7

The Last Kids on Earth: Thrilling Tales from the Tree House

Max Brallier

Horror · Science Fiction · Young Adult

April 6, 2021

The Last Kids on Earth #6

Thrilling Tales from the Tree House

Max Brallier

Horror · Science Fiction · Young Adult

April 6, 2021

Eibonvale Chapbook Line #19

Affairs of a Cardiovascular Nature

Terry Grimwood

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Short Stories

March 2021

The Classified Dossier #1

The Classified Dossier - Sherlock Holmes and Count Dracula

Christian Klaver

Fantasy · Horror · Vampires · Sherlock Holmes · Mystery

October 19, 2021

The Ghost Tracks

Celso Hurtado

Horror · Dark Fantasy

November 2, 2021

Weird World War III

Sean Patrick Hazlett

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Military Science Fiction · Anthology

October 6, 2020

Devoted

Dean Koontz

Horror

March 31, 2020

Dracula's Child

J. S. Barnes

Horror

September 22, 2020

Eden

Tim Lebbon

Horror · Science Fiction · Thriller

April 7, 2020

Sooty Feathers #2

Lord of the Hunt

David Craig

Fantasy · Horror · Dark Fantasy · Historical Fantasy · Urban Fantasy

March 20, 2020

Taaqtumi #1

Taaqtumi

Neil Christopher

Fantasy · Horror · Ghosts · Post-Apocalyptic · Psychological Horror

September 10, 2019

Keyhole

Matthew G. Rees

Horror · Short Stories

2019

The Child Cephalina

Rebecca Lloyd

Horror · Gothic Horror

November 2019

Eibonvale Chapbook Line #15

Tomorrow, When I Was Young

Julie Travis

Fantasy · Horror · Dark Fantasy

October 2019