Looking for a spooktaculary frightening read? Then try one of these nightmarish novels from some masters of scary reads.

Clive Barker

The damnation game

Clive Barker's books of blood

William Peter Blatty

The Exorcist

Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451

Something wicked this way comes

The Vintage Bradbury : Ray Bradbury's own selection of his best stories

Mark Z. Danielewski

House of leaves

Thomas Harris

The silence of the lambs

Red dragon

James Herbert

'48

The Dark

The Fog

The Secret of Crickley Hall

Others

Washington Irving

The legend of Sleepy Hollow.

Shirley Jackson

The haunting of hill house

The Masterpieces of Shirley Jackson

Henry James

The Turn of the Screw

Stephen King

Carrie

Christine

It 

Misery

Needful Things

Night Shift

Pet Sematary

Salem's Lot

The Shining

Skeleton Crew

The Stand

Dean Koontz

Demon seed

Lightning

Midnight

Mr Murder

The Taking

Watchers

H. P. Lovecraft

At the mountains of madness

Classic Horror Stories

The Dunwich Horror and Others

Ira Levin

Rosemary's Baby

Son of Rosemary : the sequel to Rosemary's Baby

Josh Malerman

Bird box

Richard Matheson

I am legend

Edgar Allen Poe

The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Stories

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Tales of Mystery and Imagination

The Raven

Anne Rice

Interview with the vampire

The witching hour

Peter Straub

A dark matter : a novel

Floating dragon

Ghost story

Shadow land

Mary Shelley

Frankenstein

Dan Simmons

The Abominable

Carrion comfort

The terror : a novel

H. G. Wells

The Island of Doctor Moreau

Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray