# The Best Horror Books

> Answers the query: “best horror books”

_Last updated: 2026-07-25_

## The list

1. **Trauma**, Graham Masterton (ISBN 9781448216499)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/trauma
2. **Bone China**, Laura Purcell (ISBN 9781526602503)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/bone-china
3. **Corset**, Laura Purcell (ISBN 9781408889602)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/corset
4. **Dracula's Guest (Connoisseur's Collections)**, Bram Stoker, Washington Irving, Saki, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Bram Stroker, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Michael Sims, Varla Ventura, James Anderson Foster, Sheridan Le Fanu, E. F. Benson, Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle de Cuir, Kate Orsini, Bram Stoker, Bram StokerDracula's Guest is a short story by Bram Stoker and published in the short story collection Dracula's Guest and Other Weir, Najam Saqib, Luis Angel O. E., Abraham Stoker, Bram Stocker, M. Kellermeyer, Stoker Bram, Shanower Eric, Michael Sims (ISBN 9781408809969)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/draculas-guest-connoisseurs-collections
5. **Book of Revelation**, Rupert Thomson (ISBN 9781408833230)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/book-of-revelation
6. **Silent Companions**, Laura Purcell (ISBN 9781408888032)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/silent-companions
7. **White Cat, Black Dog**, Kelly Link (ISBN 9781804548417)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/white-cat-black-dog
8. **Devil Rides Out**, Dennis Wheatley (ISBN 9781448213009)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/devil-rides-out
9. **To the Devil - a Daughter**, Dennis Wheatley (ISBN 9781448212620)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/to-the-devil-a-daughter
10. **The Corset**, Purcell Laura (ISBN 9781408889527)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/the-corset
11. **Frankenstein**, Mary Shelley (ISBN 9781847493507)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/frankenstein
12. **Monk**, Matthew Gregory Lewis (ISBN 9781847498168)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/monk
13. **The Birds and Other Stories**, Daphne du Maurier (ISBN 9781844080878)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/the-birds-and-other-stories
14. **Frenchman's Creek**, Daphne du Maurier (ISBN 9781844080410)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/frenchmans-creek
15. **The Melancholy of Resistance**, László Krasznahorkai (ISBN 9781781256244)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/the-melancholy-of-resistance
16. **Rosemary's Baby**, Ira Levin (ISBN 9781849015882)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/rosemarys-baby
17. **Mexican Gothic**, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (ISBN 9781529427097)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/mexican-gothic
18. **Invention of Sound**, Chuck Palahniuk (ISBN 9781472155504)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/invention-of-sound
19. **Little Stranger**, Sarah Waters (ISBN 9780349018515)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/little-stranger
20. **Ghostroots**, 'Pemi Aguda (ISBN 9780349018249)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/ghostroots
21. **William**, Mason Coile (ISBN 9781399812764)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/william
22. **After Midnight**, Daphne du Maurier, Stephen King (ISBN 9780349019543)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/after-midnight
23. **Greatest Fire**, Birgitta Steene, Harry T. Moore (ISBN 9781399738682)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/greatest-fire
24. **Barrowbeck**, Andrew Michael Hurley (ISBN 9781399817509)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/barrowbeck
25. **Moonflow**, Bitter Karella (ISBN 9780356528304)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/moonflow
26. **You Like It Darker**, Stephen King (ISBN 9781399725132)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/you-like-it-darker
27. **Carrie**, Stephen King (ISBN 9781444720693)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/carrie
28. **The Shining**, Stephen King (ISBN 9781444720723)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/the-shining
29. **It**, Stephen King (ISBN 9781444707861)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/it
30. **Doctor Sleep**, Stephen King, José Óscar Hernández Sendin (ISBN 9781444761184)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/doctor-sleep

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Source: AltBook, https://www.altbook.net/collections/best-horror-books