Our Top 10 HORROR Books of All Time

I read this in high school and I was just completely bowled over and smitten and have never have never been able to let go of it.

I've loved F. Paul Wilson for decades, decades, decades. I think this is one of his best book.

This is why I love the genre so much. Loved this read.

Oh, Books of Blood, if we were doing short stories, that would absolutely be way up close to the top.

I love the epistolary style. It gives it weight, it gives it feeling, it makes it feel like this is really happening with these letters going back and forth and things like that.

Maybe my favorite book of all time. Depends on the day. It changes.

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson an absolute classic.

She's a master. Oh, the lush gothic descriptions, the lingering upon these New Orleans streets, the sense of time and place and atmosphere that she brings to every page, the longing for the human experience.

For me, I just see it's somebody swinging for the fences and taking some huge swings. and they absolutely knocked it out of the park for me.

I'm sure there are so many things in this story that I missed because I've not read Ghost written or Cloud Atlas or Bone Clocks or all his other stories in this big grand connected universe he has. but man, what a fun ghost story.

I cannot wait for you to read this. It is just beautiful and at the same time mysterious and frightening and exalting in the possibilities of the mysterious.

I have to put Swan Song number one as my favorite horror read. It I think it's truly something special.

It was so brilliantly told.

Bone Clocks all this overarching story of this battle between good and evil on the physical and metaphysical realms that's going on through generation after generation after generation after century after century after century all tied together through his big story. Bone Clocks is like I wanted it on I want I but I just couldn't get a slot.

The Changeling by Victor LaValle so close to making it but just this dark family drama of this fable this fairy tale this ultimate human drama horror that throws this family into a supernatural suspense-filled horror. It springboards off of that family drama and it's done so well.

I found it chilling, I found it creepy, I found it made me look around the corners of what's happening, what I think is real.

It's still it's such a formative read for me. I think I think I absolutely want to do a reread of The Stand, but it's absolutely number two for me.

I almost got Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet on there where you think about oh, this is what are you talking about this is genre and then by the end it's like wow, this is no holds barred full-blown horror like nightmare fuel galore.

This is such a wild ride, such a wild ride.

I love the style of it. I love the first-person narrative the way it's like a recorded history of what's gone on during this zombie apocalypse.