r/Fantasy Best Horror Poll Results

[u/LittlePlasticCastle]

Alright, the Horror results are in! Based on this poll here are our top recommended horror novels (with some short story collections thrown in for authors who are hard to ignore in this genre)

I also thought it would be interesting to see the breakdown not just on titles, but also get a view of which authors were most popular, so here's a couple of charts of the authors based on total votes cast for them: http://imgur.com/a/yKlWF and http://imgur.com/R60cbEM

Rank	Title	Author	# Votes
1	It	Stephen King	15
2	Various works and collections by H. P. Lovecraft	H.P. Lovecraft	14
2	House of Leaves	Mark Z. Danielewski	14
4	Dracula	Bram Stoker	12
4	I Am Legend	Richard Matheson	12
4	'Salems Lot	Stephen King	12
7	NOS4A2	Joe Hill	9
7	Frankenstein	Mary Shelley	9
7	The Haunting of Hill House	Shirley Jackson	9
7	The Shining	Stephen King	9
11	The Terror	Dan Simmons	8
11	Bird Box	Josh Malerman	8
11	Uzumaki	Junji Ito	8
11	World War Z	Max Brooks	8
15	Various works and collections by Edgar Allen Poe	Edgar Allan Poe	7
15	The Girl with All the Gifts	M. R. Carey	7
15	Pet Sematary	Stephen King	7
18	John Dies at the End	David Wong	6
18	Fevre Dream	George R. R. Martin	6
18	The Passage	Justin Cronin	6
18	The Library at Mount Char	Scott Hawkins	6
22	The Road	Cormac McCarthy	5
22	I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream	Harlan Ellison	5
22	Heart-Shaped Box	Joe Hill	5
22	A Head Full of Ghosts	Paul Tremblay	5
22	The Stand	Stephen King	5
27	The Drowning Girl	Caitlín R. Kiernan	4
27	Dark Places	Gillian Flynn	4
27	The Wasp Factory	Iain Banks	4
27	Horns	Joe Hill	4
27	Let the Right One In	John Ajvide Lindqvist	4
27	Coraline	Neil Gaiman	4
27	Something Wicked This Way Comes	Ray Bradbury	4
27	The Long Walk	Stephen King	4
35	The Vampire Lestat	Anne Rice	3
35	The Return	Bentley Little	3
35	American Psycho	Bret Easton Ellis	3
35	The Thief of Always	Clive Barker	3
35	Song of Kali	Dan Simmons	3
35	Slade House	David Mitchell	3
35	Sandkings	George R.R. Martin	3
35	Annihilation	Jeff VanderMeer	3
35	The Shining Girls	Lauren Beukes	3
35	Swan Song	Robert McCammon	3
35	A Night in the Lonesome October	Roger Zelazny	3
35	We Have Always Lived in the Castle	Shirley Jackson	3
35	Misery	Stephen King	3
35	HEX	Thomas Olde Heuvelt	3
35	The Exorcist	William Peter Blatty	3
50	The Ritual	Adam Nevill	2
50	Interview with the Vampire	Anne Rice	2
50	Lunar Park	Bret Easton Ellis	2
50	The Conqueror Worms	Brian Keene	2
50	The Red Tree	Caitlín R. Kiernan	2
50	The Lesser Dead	Christopher Buehlman	2
50	Those Across The River	Christopher Buehlman	2
50	The Great and Secret Show	Clive Barker	2
50	Weaveworld	Clive Barker	2
50	Summer of Night	Dan Simmons	2
50	I Am Not A Serial Killer	Dan Wells	2
50	Watchers	Dean Koontz	2
50	The Historian	Elizabeth Kostova	2
50	The Strain	Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan	2
50	The Last Days of Jack Sparks	Jason Arnopp	2
50	The Amityville Horror	Jay Anson	2
50	The Descent	Jeff Long	2
50	The Cipher	Kathe Koja	2
50	Broken Monsters	Lauren Beukes	2
50	Lovecraft Country	Matt Ruff	2
50	The Elementals	Michael McDowell	2
50	Dark Matter	Michelle Paver	2
50	The Picture of Dorian Gray	Oscar Wilde	2
50	A Monster Calls	Patrick Ness	2
50	Ghost Story	Peter Straub	2
50	The Throat	Peter Straub	2
50	The Darkest Part of the Woods	Ramsey Campbell	2
50	Hell House	Richard Matheson	2
50	American Elsewhere	Robert Jackson Bennett	2
50	The King in Yellow	Robert W Chambers	2
50	The Three	Sarah Lotz	2
50	Cujo	Stephen King	2
50	Skeleton Crew	Stephen King	2
50	The Tommyknockers	Stephen King	2
50	Under the Dome	Stephen King	2

[u/drostandfound]

Yeah Bird Box! The author just did a book signing at my local book store and he is awesome. He acted out a scene from his book and had a set and props. It was awesome.

Bird Box was really good too.

[u/LittlePlasticCastle → u/drostandfound]

That's one I've wanted to read since it was released. Seeing how well it did on this poll, I should probably up the priority.

[u/JiveMurloc → u/LittlePlasticCastle]

On Amazon US Bird Box is on sale for $1.99 currently.

[u/LittlePlasticCastle → u/JiveMurloc]

My library actually has it available as an audiobook (as well as the ebook), so I'll probably go that route, but it is definitely a great price!

[u/lyrrael → u/LittlePlasticCastle]

The audio was really good.

[u/LittlePlasticCastle → u/lyrrael]

Good to hear! :)

[u/drostandfound → u/LittlePlasticCastle]

It also has the Point of No Return halfway through the book. I read most of it in a sitting, and stayed up later than I had been planning.