Category: reading

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.

1. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
2. The Amityville Horror – Jay Anson
3. Books of Blood, Vol. 1-3 – Clive Barker
4. Broken Monsters – Lauren Beukes
5. Carrion Comfort – Dan Simmons
6. Coraline – Neil Gaiman
7. The Damnation Game – Clive Barker
8. Dracula – Bram Stoker
9. The Exorcist – William Peter Blatty
10. Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus – Mary Shelley
11. Ghost Story – Peter Straub
12. The Girl Next Door – Jack Ketchum
13. Haunted – Chuck Palaniuk
14. The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson
15. Heart-Shaped Box – Joe Hill
16. Horns – Joe Hill
17. House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
18. I have No Mouth, And I Must Scream – Harlan Ellison
19. It – Stephen King
20. John Dies @ the End – David Wong
21. Let the Right One In – John Ajvide Lindqvist
22. Little Star – John Ajvide Lindqvist
23. The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft – Howard Phillips Lovecraft
24. Lunar Park – Bret Easton Ellis
25. The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
26. The October Country – Ray Bradbury
27. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark – Alvin Schwartz
28. Silence of the Lambs – Thomas Harris
29. The Shining – Stephen King
30. The Tune of the Screw – Henry James
31. World War Z – Max Brooks

I’m saving this for the times when I can’t decide what to read next.