Reddit's Scariest Book #1

1.
1984
1984 4.20 avg rating — 5,226,162 ratings
2.
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus 4.16 avg rating — 119,584 ratings
3.
The Demon in the Freezer
The Demon in the Freezer 4.15 avg rating — 17,726 ratings
4.
Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come
Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come 4.42 avg rating — 7,442 ratings
5.
Dreamcatcher
Dreamcatcher 3.66 avg rating — 183,539 ratings
6.
Johnny Got His Gun
Johnny Got His Gun 4.21 avg rating — 47,420 ratings
7.
The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R James
The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R James 4.13 avg rating — 7,689 ratings
8.
Collected Ghost Stories
Collected Ghost Stories 4.13 avg rating — 7,689 ratings
9.
Penpal
Penpal 3.86 avg rating — 55,483 ratings
10.
From Below
From Below 3.98 avg rating — 14,920 ratings
11.
’Salem’s Lot
’Salem’s Lot 4.10 avg rating — 636,663 ratings
12.
Thin Air: A Ghost Story
Thin Air: A Ghost Story 3.82 avg rating — 9,043 ratings
13.
Dark Matter: A Ghost Story
Dark Matter: A Ghost Story 3.96 avg rating — 21,956 ratings
14.
American Psycho
American Psycho 3.80 avg rating — 349,176 ratings
15.
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West 4.16 avg rating — 204,455 ratings
16.
The Road
The Road really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,001,693 ratings
17.
Tender Is the Flesh
Tender Is the Flesh 3.78 avg rating — 338,640 ratings
18.
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 29,325 ratings
19.
The Girl with All the Gifts (The Girl With All the Gifts, #1)
The Girl with All the Gifts (The Girl With All the Gifts, #1) 3.95 avg rating — 240,819 ratings
20.
Misery
Misery 4.23 avg rating — 815,587 ratings
21.
The Stand
The Stand 4.35 avg rating — 814,322 ratings
22.
The Ruins
The Ruins 3.69 avg rating — 63,261 ratings
23.
The Girl Next Door
The Girl Next Door 3.92 avg rating — 52,215 ratings
24.
Jaws (Jaws, #1)
Jaws (Jaws, #1) 3.95 avg rating — 174,111 ratings
25.
The Island
The Island 3.35 avg rating — 2,307 ratings
26.
Beast
Beast 3.65 avg rating — 5,295 ratings
27.
Claustrophilia (The Dark Triad, #1)
Claustrophilia (The Dark Triad, #1) 4.13 avg rating — 635 ratings
28.
girls
girls 3.36 avg rating — 667 ratings
29.
House of Leaves
House of Leaves 4.09 avg rating — 191,453 ratings
30.
The House Next Door
The House Next Door 3.89 avg rating — 13,318 ratings
31.
It
It 4.24 avg rating — 1,227,431 ratings
32.
Pet Sematary
Pet Sematary 4.08 avg rating — 668,844 ratings
33.
The Haunting of Hill House
The Haunting of Hill House 3.81 avg rating — 365,307 ratings
34.
Nuclear War: A Scenario
Nuclear War: A Scenario 4.39 avg rating — 36,931 ratings
35.
The Troop
The Troop 3.84 avg rating — 114,073 ratings
36.
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
The Shining (The Shining, #1) 4.28 avg rating — 1,650,374 ratings
37.
NOS4A2
NOS4A2
by: Joe Hill
4.08 avg rating — 139,865 ratings
38.
Heart-Shaped Box
Heart-Shaped Box
by: Joe Hill
3.84 avg rating — 148,819 ratings
39.
Stolen Tongues
Stolen Tongues 3.78 avg rating — 52,466 ratings
40.
The Church Beneath the Roots
The Church Beneath the Roots 4.11 avg rating — 2,702 ratings
41.
The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1)
The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1) 4.21 avg rating — 259,252 ratings
42.
Pet Sematary
Pet Sematary 4.08 avg rating — 668,844 ratings
43.
The Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis 3.90 avg rating — 1,338,309 ratings
44.
Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1)
Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1) 3.90 avg rating — 214,010 ratings
45.
Books of Blood, Volume Two (Books of Blood, #2)
Books of Blood, Volume Two (Books of Blood, #2) 4.07 avg rating — 12,452 ratings
46.
The Red Tree
The Red Tree 3.64 avg rating — 3,675 ratings
47.
The Island
The Island 3.77 avg rating — 40,659 ratings
48.
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1) 4.20 avg rating — 238,930 ratings
49.
Intensity
Intensity 4.03 avg rating — 91,369 ratings
50.
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood 3.98 avg rating — 336,743 ratings
51.
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride 4.25 avg rating — 35,223 ratings
52.
The Silent Companions
The Silent Companions 3.88 avg rating — 39,835 ratings
53.
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster 4.26 avg rating — 550,967 ratings
54.
Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)
Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1) 4.07 avg rating — 362,948 ratings
55.
The Devil of Nanking
The Devil of Nanking
by: Mo Hayder
3.92 avg rating — 11,925 ratings
56.
The Amityville Horror
The Amityville Horror
by: Jay Anson
3.83 avg rating — 136,149 ratings
57.
Perfect Victim: The True Story of "The Girl in the Box" by the D.A. Who Prosecuted Her Captor
Perfect Victim: The True Story of "The Girl in the Box" by the D.A. Who Prosecuted Her Captor really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5,517 ratings
58.
Hiroshima
Hiroshima 4.04 avg rating — 86,438 ratings
59.
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer 4.12 avg rating — 257,772 ratings
60.
Nothing But Blackened Teeth
Nothing But Blackened Teeth 2.64 avg rating — 48,306 ratings
61.
Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison
Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison 3.96 avg rating — 1,973 ratings
62.
The Strain (The Strain #1)
The Strain (The Strain #1) 3.80 avg rating — 89,389 ratings
63.
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke 2.94 avg rating — 55,385 ratings
64.
The Haunting of Ashburn House
The Haunting of Ashburn House 3.85 avg rating — 35,464 ratings
65.
100% Match
100% Match 3.03 avg rating — 19,206 ratings
66.
Dracula
Dracula 4.02 avg rating — 1,415,059 ratings
67.
The Night Stalker (DCI Erika Foster, #2)
The Night Stalker (DCI Erika Foster, #2) 4.16 avg rating — 32,391 ratings
68.
The Night Stalker (Robert Hunter, #3)
The Night Stalker (Robert Hunter, #3) 4.38 avg rating — 23,009 ratings
69.
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders 4.06 avg rating — 152,013 ratings
70.
Suffer the Children
Suffer the Children
by: John Saul
3.92 avg rating — 31,319 ratings
71.
The Haunting of Maddy Clare
The Haunting of Maddy Clare 3.84 avg rating — 33,184 ratings
72.
The Sun Down Motel
The Sun Down Motel really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 180,205 ratings
73.
Murder Road
Murder Road 3.68 avg rating — 51,412 ratings
74.
Thrawn Janet
Thrawn Janet 2.91 avg rating — 678 ratings
75.
Man-Eaters of Kumaon
Man-Eaters of Kumaon 4.30 avg rating — 6,032 ratings
76.
The Colour Out of Space and others
The Colour Out of Space and others 4.20 avg rating — 5,088 ratings
77.
The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories
The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories 4.27 avg rating — 10,054 ratings
78.
The Dunwich Horror and Others
The Dunwich Horror and Others 4.19 avg rating — 16,395 ratings
79.
Velocity
Velocity 3.87 avg rating — 66,441 ratings
80.
The Beast from the East (Goosebumps, #43)
The Beast from the East (Goosebumps, #43) 3.64 avg rating — 5,829 ratings
81.
The Haunted Mask (Goosebumps, #11)
The Haunted Mask (Goosebumps, #11) 3.87 avg rating — 25,376 ratings
82.
Gerald's Game
Gerald's Game 3.58 avg rating — 174,736 ratings
83.
Lolita
Lolita 3.87 avg rating — 919,206 ratings
84.
I Choose to Live
I Choose to Live 3.80 avg rating — 4,941 ratings
85.
Buried Dreams: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer
Buried Dreams: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer 3.82 avg rating — 821 ratings
86.
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream 3.89 avg rating — 47,886 ratings
87.
The Unloved
The Unloved
by: John Saul
3.88 avg rating — 4,799 ratings
88.
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2) 4.25 avg rating — 578,169 ratings
89.
A Head Full of Ghosts
A Head Full of Ghosts 3.78 avg rating — 100,582 ratings
90.
The Cipher
The Cipher 3.53 avg rating — 7,212 ratings
91.
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History 4.15 avg rating — 77,281 ratings
92.
Coraline
Coraline 4.13 avg rating — 760,547 ratings
93.
Paradise Lost (Joanna Brady, #9)
Paradise Lost (Joanna Brady, #9) 4.07 avg rating — 6,730 ratings
94.
Night of the Grizzlies
Night of the Grizzlies 4.22 avg rating — 2,795 ratings
95.
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed 3.80 avg rating — 56,798 ratings
96.
Hostage to the Devil: The Possession and Exorcism of Five Contemporary Americans
Hostage to the Devil: The Possession and Exorcism of Five Contemporary Americans 3.92 avg rating — 2,352 ratings
97.
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War 4.02 avg rating — 556,625 ratings
98.
The Omen
The Omen 4.04 avg rating — 69,125 ratings
99.
The Woman in Black
The Woman in Black 3.75 avg rating — 77,964 ratings
100.
The Horla
The Horla 3.88 avg rating — 22,641 ratings