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Nightmare Magazine's Top 100 Horror Books

Nightmare Magazine's Top 100 Horror Books

When looking at our Horror offerings we thought it would be great to add a new Horror-based reading list. We decided to consult the experts at Nightmare Magazine to curate a list.

What we got back was a list spanning everything from late gothic to splatterpunk, from killer clowns to devil babies, from vampire romance to vampire apocalypse. It’s like a synecdoche of the genre through it's entire history, and we like to think it has a little something for everyone. Our thanks to Nightmare publishers John Joseph Adams and R. J. Sevin for creating this great list for WWEnd!

(Please note that many of the anthologies are included in the list in their entirety, not just as their first volumes.)

1. (1987)

Books of Blood: Volumes 1-3

BOOKS OF BLOOD: VOLUMES 1-3

2. (1985)

The Damnation Game

THE DAMNATION GAME

3. (1991)

The Hellbound Heart

THE HELLBOUND HEART

4. (2007)

The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

THE IMAGO SEQUENCE AND OTHER STORIES

5. (1971)

The Exorcist

William Peter Blatty

6. (1959)

Psycho

7. (2001)

From the Dust Returned

FROM THE DUST RETURNED

8. (1955)

The October Country

THE OCTOBER COUNTRY

9. (1962)

Something Wicked This Way Comes

SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES

10. (2003)

Graveyard People

GRAVEYARD PEOPLE

Gary A. Braunbeck

11. (2004)

In Silent Graves

IN SILENT GRAVES

Gary A. Braunbeck

12. (1993)

Drawing Blood

13. (1992)

Lost Souls

14. (1994)

Love in Vein

Poppy Z. Brite
Martin H. Greenberg

15. (1993)

Alone with the Horrors

ALONE WITH THE HORRORS

Ramsey Campbell

16. (1976)

The Doll Who Ate His Mother

THE DOLL WHO ATE HIS MOTHER

Ramsey Campbell

17. (1981)

The Nameless

Ramsey Campbell

18. (1997)

Nazareth Hill

Ramsey Campbell

19. (2008)

The Shallow End of the Pool

THE SHALLOW END OF THE POOL

Adam-Troy Castro

20. (2002)

Shivers

Richard Chizmar

21. (1989)

Sunglasses After Dark

SUNGLASSES AFTER DARK

Nancy A. Collins

22. (2009)

The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One

THE BEST HORROR OF THE YEAR: VOLUME ONE

23. (2010)

Darkness

24. (2007)

Inferno

25. (1988)

The Year's Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection

THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASY: FIRST ANNUAL COLLECTION

Ellen Datlow
Terri Windling

26. (1997)

My Soul to Keep

MY SOUL TO KEEP

27. (1982)

Nightmare Seasons

NIGHTMARE SEASONS

Charles L. Grant

28. (1978)

Shadows

Charles L. Grant

29. (2010)

The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010

THE YEAR'S BEST DARK FANTASY & HORROR 2010

30. (1988)

Those Who Hunt the Night

THOSE WHO HUNT THE NIGHT

31. (1988)

The Silence of the Lambs

THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS

32. (1987)

The Dark Descent

THE DARK DESCENT

David G. Hartwell

33. (2005)

20th Century Ghosts

20TH CENTURY GHOSTS

34. (1994)

Dead in the Water

DEAD IN THE WATER

35. (1997)

Just an Ordinary Day

JUST AN ORDINARY DAY

Shirley Jackson

36. (1959)

The Haunting of Hill House

THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE

Shirley Jackson

37. (1990)

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror

THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST NEW HORROR

Ramsey Campbell
Stephen Jones

38. (2007)

Ghoul

39. (2009)

The Red Tree

Caitlín R. Kiernan

40. (1998)

Silk

Caitlín R. Kiernan

41. (1998)

Bag of Bones

42. (1986)

43. (1978)

Night Shift

44. (1975)

Salem's Lot

45. (1977)

The Shining

46. (1985)

Skeleton Crew

47. (1978)

The Stand

48. (1991)

The Cipher

49. (1990)

The Bad Place

50. (1986)

Strangers

51. (2004)

The Taking

52. (2008)

Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters

MR. GAUNT AND OTHER UNEASY ENCOUNTERS

53. (2009)

Audrey's Door

54. (2006)

The Keeper

55. (2007)

The Missing

56. (1988)

The Drive-In

Joe R. Lansdale

57. (1990)

Savage Season

Joe R. Lansdale

58. (2005)

Berserk

59. (2001)

The Nature of Balance

THE NATURE OF BALANCE

60. (1967)

Rosemary's Baby

ROSEMARY'S BABY

61. (2005)

The Shadow at the Bottom of the World

THE SHADOW AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WORLD

62. (1997)

The Ignored

63. (1999)

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

THE CALL OF CTHULHU AND OTHER WEIRD STORIES

H. P. Lovecraft

64. (2004)

The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories

THE DREAMS IN THE WITCH HOUSE AND OTHER WEIRD STORIES

H. P. Lovecraft

65. (2001)

The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories

THE THING ON THE DOORSTEP AND OTHER WEIRD STORIES

H. P. Lovecraft

66. (2006)

Ghost Road Blues

GHOST ROAD BLUES

Jonathan Maberry

67. (1971)

Hell House

Richard Matheson

68. (1954)

I Am Legend

Richard Matheson

69. (1980)

Dark Forces

70. (1989)

Swan Song

Robert R. McCammon

71. (1989)

The Wolf's Hour

THE WOLF'S HOUR

Robert R. McCammon

72. (1989)

Wet Work

73. (1995)

Zombie

Joyce Carol Oates

74. (2003)

A Choir of Ill Children

A CHOIR OF ILL CHILDREN

75. (1976)

Interview with the Vampire

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE

76. (1985)

The Vampire Lestat

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT

77. (1984)

Night Visions 1

NIGHT VISIONS 1

78. (1999)

999

79. (2005)

It's Only Temporary

IT'S ONLY TEMPORARY

80. (1818)

Frankenstein

81. (1989)

Carrion Comfort

CARRION COMFORT

82. (1985)

Song of Kali

83. (1991)

Summer of Night

SUMMER OF NIGHT

84. (2007)

The Terror

85. (1991)

The Bridge

John Skipp
Craig Spector

86. (1989)

Book of the Dead

BOOK OF THE DEAD

John Skipp
Craig Spector

87. (1992)

Still Dead

John Skipp
Craig Spector

88. (1897)

Dracula

89. (2010)

A Dark Matter

90. (1983)

Floating Dragon

FLOATING DRAGON

91. (1979)

Ghost Story

92. (2004)

In The Night Room

IN THE NIGHT ROOM

93. (2003)

Lost Boy Lost Girl

LOST BOY LOST GIRL

94. (1980)

Shadowland

95. (1981)

The Keep

96. (1992)

Nightworld

97. (1984)

The Tomb

98. (1988)

Prime Evil

Douglas E. Winter

99. (1951)

The Day of the Triffids

THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS

100. (1978)

Hotel Transylvania

HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro