Occult Fiction Books of the 1970s
The 64 most-read occult fiction books first published between 1970 and 1979, led by The Shining (1977), Carrie (1974) and The Amityville Horror (1977).
This list collects 64 books from the 1970s by 59 authors, published between 1970 and 1979. 2 are free to read and 3 have a free audiobook. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
The Shining
Stephen King
Carrie
Stephen King
The Amityville Horror
Jay Anson
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
Jay's Journal
Beatrice Sparks
Mind of My Mind
Octavia E. Butler
The Changeover
Margaret Mahy
Cosmic Trigger
Robert Anton Wilson
Krabat
Otfried Preußler
The headless Cupid
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The Bermuda Triangle
Charles Berlitz
The Mystery of the Singing Serpent
M. V. Carey
Triad
Mary Leader
Audrey Rose
Frank De Felitta
The Goat-Foot God
Violet M. Firth (Dion Fortune)
- FREE🎧
Uncanny Tales
Mary Louisa Molesworth
Justice and Her Brothers
Virginia Hamilton
A Case of Spirits
Peter Lovesey
The Witchmaster's Key
Leslie McFarlane
- FREE🎧
The Man-wolf and Other Tales
Erckmann-Chatrian.
The Ghost of Flight 401
John Grant Fuller
Operation Chaos
Poul Anderson
The Rainbow in Your Hands
Albert Roy Davis, Walter C. Rawls
Nightfrights
Pete Haining, Ambrose Bierce
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Shadow Forms
Manly Palmer Hall
Anatomy of Horror
Barclay, Glen St. John
The Power of Stars
Louise Lawrence
Bed-Knob and Broomstick (Bedknobs and Broomsticks #1-2)
Mary Norton
The Shadow-cage, and Other Tales of the Supernatural
Philippa Pearce
Pure Magic
Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
A Witch's Garden
Miriam Young
Two Tales of the Occult
Mircea Eliade
Lupe
Gene Thompson
Tales of Terror
Ida Chittum
The Land of Leys
L. P. Davies
The Witch's Bridle and Other Occult Tales
Forbes Stuart
Delpha Green & company
Vera Cleaver, Bill Cleaver
Stories of the Supernatural
Henry James
The best supernatural tales of Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle
Witch, Witch!
Richard Shaw
The Spring on the Mountain
Judy Allen
The Witch House and Other Tales Our Settlers Told
Joseph Raskin
Phantasmagoria
Jane Mobley
Cat in the Mirror
Mary Stolz
A Circle of Witches
Peter Haining
Ladies of Horror
Seon Manley
The Mountain of Truth
Dale Bick Carlson
The Chalk Cross
Berthe Amoss
The Satanic Mill
Otfried Preußler
The best supernatural tales of Algernon Blackwood
Algernon Blackwood
Frights
Kirby McCauley
Witching Time
Lee Bennett Hopkins, Vera Rosenberry
Tales of Terror and Darkness
Algernon Blackwood
The magic bridle and other folk tales from Great Britain and Ireland
Forbes Stuart
Ghost Stories
Michael Arlen
Women of the Weird
Seon Manley, Gogo Lewis
Ghosts and Grinning Shadows
Helen Adam
Tales of the Uncanny
Václav Černý
The Grass Tower
Shirley Rousseau Murphy
Wizards and Warlocks
Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress)
R.I.P
R. Reginald, Douglas Alver Menville
The tradition of Salem witchcraft in American literature: 1820-1870
James William Clark
Rosalinda
Christopher Leach
The Street of Queer Houses and Other Tales
Vernon Knowles