“Tobermory”, Saki (H. H. Munro)
“The Lottery”, Shirley Jackson
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Dracula, Bram Stoker
The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
The Complete Canon of Edgar Allen Poe
“The Monkey’s Paw”, W. W. Jacobs
Grimm’s Fairy Tales
“The Highwayman”, by Alfred Noyes
“Titus Andronicus”, William Shakespeare
“The Visit”, Friedrich Dürenmatt
“The Petrified Forest”, Robert E. Sherwood
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
“Suddenly, Last Summer”, Tennessee Williams
“The Exorcist”, William Blatty
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving
The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
“Rosemary’s Baby”, Ira Levin
The Shining, Stephen King
Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo
The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells
The Canon of H. P. Lovecraft
Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury
The Monk, Matthew Lewis
Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham
“The Damned Thing”, Ambrose Bierce
The Mysteries of Udolpho, Anne Radcliffe
The Ghost Stories, Edith Wharton
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
“Carmilla”, J. Sheridan le Fanu
“The Willows”, Algernon Blackwood
“The Minister’s Black Veil”, Nathanial Hawthorne
“The Canterville Ghost”, Oscar Wilde
“The Overcoat”, Nikoli Gogol
1984, George Orwell
"The Goblin Market", Christina Rossetti
… but for this author, the scariest book of all time? Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury.
What's YOUR favorite novel of chills and terror?
The only one on my list that you don't have up there is CAT'S CRADLE by Kurt Vonnegut ... one of the most chilling endings I've read.
ReplyDeleteI'd forgotten that one, Lisa! I was a huge Vonnegut fan in my younger and more impressionable years. But definitely should be included.
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