Horror Books of the 1970s
The 129 most-read horror books first published between 1970 and 1979, led by The Shining (1977), Misery (1978) and Carrie (1974).
This list collects 129 books from the 1970s by 92 authors, published between 1970 and 1979. 1 is free to read and 2 have a free audiobook. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
The Shining
Stephen King
Misery
Stephen King
Carrie
Stephen King
The Stand
Stephen King
The Gunslinger
Stephen King
Flowers in the Attic
V.C. Andrews
The Long Walk
Stephen King
The Dead Zone
Stephen King
The Exorcist
William Peter Blatty
The Stepford Wives
Ira Levin
Jaws
Peter Benchley
Bunnicula
Deborah Howe, James Howe
The Amityville Horror
Jay Anson
Eaters of the Dead
Michael Crichton
Swan Song
Robert R. McCammon
The Halloween Tree
Ray Bradbury
Hell House
Richard Matheson
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The Monkey's Paw
W. W. Jacobs
Dark Angel
V.C. Andrews
Works (Buried Talents / Dance of the Dead / Dress of White Silk / From Shadowed Places / I Am Legend / Mad House / Person to Person / Prey / The Funeral / The Near Departed / Witch War)
Richard Matheson
Come Closer
Sara Gran
Ghost Story
Peter Straub
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The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings [collection/set]
J.R.R. Tolkien
Demon Seed
Dean Koontz
The Key to Midnight
Dean Koontz
Night Chills
Dean Koontz
The Face of Fear
Dean Koontz
The Vision
Dean Koontz
Le Visage De L'autre
Thomas Tryon, William Dufris
The Rats
James Herbert
The Fog
James Herbert
Shattered
Dean Koontz
What Dreams May Come
Richard Matheson
The Feast of All Saints
Anne Rice
Summer of Fear
Lois Duncan
Salem Possessed
Paul S. Boyer
A Judgement in Stone
Ruth Rendell
The Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Jack Finney
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Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected [24 stories]
Roald Dahl
Tales for the Midnight Hour
Judith Bauer Stamper, J. B. Stamper
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Tales of the Unexpected [16 stories]
Roald Dahl
Julia
Peter Straub
White Shark
Peter Benchley
The House Next Door
Anne Rivers Siddons
The Manitou
Graham Masterton, Robert G. Slade
Fluke
James Herbert
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe
Penelope Lively
The King in Yellow, and Other Horror Stories
Robert W. Chambers
The Omen
David Seltzer
Lair
James Herbert
Nightwing
Martin Cruz Smith
Psychlone
Greg Bear
The Ghost stories of Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton
Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula
Loren D. Estleman
Children of the Corn
Stephen King
The Survivor
James Herbert
First Blood
David Morrell
Suffer the Children
John Saul
The Stone Maiden
Alexandra Manners
The Dracula Book of Great Vampire Stories
Leslie Shepard, Charles Dickens
The Nightmare Reader
Peter Haining, Matthew Gregory Lewis
Baal
Robert R. McCammon
Frankenstein Unbound
Brian W. Aldiss
Hotel Transylvania
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions
H.P. Lovecraft
Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
Washington Irving
Witch Water
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Ghost House
Clare McNally
The 5th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories
Mary Danby, Daphne du Maurier
Magic
William Goldman
Eight Tales of Terror (Cask of Amontillado / Fall of the House of Usher / Hop-Frog / Imp of the Perverse / Ligeia / Mask of the Red Death / MS. Found in a Bottle / William Wilson)
Edgar Allan Poe
The United States in Literature -- The Glass Menagerie Edition
James Edwin Miller, Robert Hayden
Space Relations
Donald Barr
The Red Room Riddle
Scott Corbett
Isobel
Jane Parkhurst
The Hounds of Hell
Michel Parry, H.P. Lovecraft
Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson
Demon Witch
Geoffrey Huntington
Some Things Strange and Sinister
Joan Kahn, Agatha Christie
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Zofloya, or, The Moor
Charlotte Dacre
Nightfrights
Pete Haining, Ambrose Bierce
Anatomy of Horror
Barclay, Glen St. John
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes
Loren D. Estleman
The Penguin Book of American Short Stories
Cochrane, James., J. Cochrane
The Lady of Lyon House
Jennifer Wilde
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Great American Short Stories [34 stories]
Reader's Digest Association, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Zothique
Clark Ashton Smith
The United States in Literature -- All My Sons Edition
James Edwin Miller, Robert Hayden
The World of Mystery Fiction
Elliot L. Gilbert, Elliott Gilbert
The Shadow-cage, and Other Tales of the Supernatural
Philippa Pearce
Wolf's Complete Book of Terror
Leonard Wolf, Helen Adam
The Haunted Mansion Mystery
Virginia Masterman-Smith
The Best Short Stories of the Modern Age -- Revised
Douglas Angus, ΠΠ½ΡΠΎΠ½ ΠΠ°Π²Π»ΠΎΠ²ΠΈΡ Π§Π΅Ρ ΠΎΠ²
Tales of Terror and Fantasy (Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold Bug / Ms. Found in a Bottle / Pit and the Pendulum / Premature Burial / Tell-Tale Heart)
Edgar Allan Poe
Walk the Night Unseen
Lucinda Baker
The Seventh Armada Ghost Book
Mary Danby