Best Literary Horror Novels

Horror that aspires to literature — frightening and genuinely significant.

Farnham's Freehold by Robert A. Heinlein
I Will Fear No Evil by Robert A. Heinlein
George's Secret Key to the Universe by Stephen Hawking
Darkness Comes by Dean Koontz
Krondor by Raymond E. Feist
The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Mankind in the making by H. G. Wells
The Green Hills of Earth by Robert A. Heinlein
Deathworld by Harry Harrison
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

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