Yes. I realize there are 31 books on the list. Not my fault Paste is a little tweaked.
This is the list from the article found here: http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/04/required-reading-40-of-the-best-horror-novels.html
Bold means I’ve read it. Italics means I only saw the movie. Both means I read it AND saw the movie.
- American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
- The Amityville Horror – Jay Anson
- Books of Blood, Vol. 1-3 – Clive Barker
- Broken Monsters – Lauren Beukes
- Carrion Comfort – Dan Simmons
- Coraline – Neil Gaiman
- The Damnation Game – Clive Barker
- Dracula – Bram Stoker
- The Exorcist – William Peter Blatty
- Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus – Mary Shelley
- Ghost Story – Peter Straub
- The Girl Next Door – Jack Ketchum
- Haunted – Chuck Palaniuk
- The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson
- Heart-Shaped Box – Joe Hill
- Horns – Joe Hill
- House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
- I have No Mouth, And I Must Scream – Harlan Ellison
- It – Stephen King
- John Dies @ the End – David Wong
- Let the Right One In – John Ajvide Lindqvist
- Little Star – John Ajvide Lindqvist
- The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft – Howard Phillips Lovecraft
- Lunar Park – Bret Easton Ellis
- The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
- The October Country – Ray Bradbury
- Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark – Alvin Schwartz
- Silence of the Lambs – Thomas Harris
- The Shining – Stephen King
- The Tune of the Screw – Henry James
- World War Z – Max Brooks
I’m saving this for the times when I can’t decide what to read next.
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