Appropriately enough, I’ve ranked these rankings from 1 to 10 (and transcribed the listings when appropriate), starting with: 1. I also suspect many of the lists’ compilers let their kids vote (the likely reason for the GOOSEBUMPS inclusion).īelow are 10 horror fiction listings that are more authoritative in every respect. Lovecraft stories that inspired that book. Likewise, I strongly doubt there would have been an entry for NECRONOMICON if only more of the compilers had bothered to peruse the H.P. I tend to think those writers might have made the list had The Book Depository’s customers actually read any of them. Wright or a myriad of other horror masters. Note the overabundance of Stephen King titles and lack of anything by Ramsey Campbell, Michael McDowell, T.M.
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS by Thomas Harris THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jacksonġ2.
THE COMPLETE TALES & POEMS OF EDGAR ALLAN POEĨ. Check out the following “Scariest Books of All Time” list, chosen by customers of The Book Depository: Scariest Books of All TimeĤ. My problems with most rankings of this sort are that they often evince an ill-informed knowledge of horror fiction, and that certain titles tend to recur on every listing (DRACULA, THE TURN OF THE SCREW, much of the oeuvre of Stephen King). Scary book/story rankings: the web is littered with such lists, and there’s even a whole book of them (2008’s THE BOOK OF LISTS: HORROR).
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