Bringing to you five of the best horror authors and their must-read horror novels!
This list of best-selling horror novels is sure to send chills down your spine and leave you shaking for hours, if not days. Doesn’t matter whether you’re searching for real-life serial killer scares or a traditional ghost story; these five horror authors are sure to keep you awake at night and uneasy throughout the day.
Take a look at our compilation of the top 5 horror authors below!
- Dean Koontz
Dean Koontz is an enormously popular New York Times best-selling author who has written some of the finest horror books and novels. So many of his books are terrifying that it’s difficult to determine which is the scariest.
Koontz is an excellent choice if you want to read a horror story involving serial killers, ghosts, phantoms, or even horror novels with a tinge of science fiction. Despite their frightening volume, Koontz’s horror novels are easy to read, keeping readers on their toes and anticipating what will happen next.
Top Horror Novels
- The Night Window: A Jane Hawk Novel, $9.99
- The Servants of Twilight, $7.99
- The Lost Soul of the City, $1.99
- 77 Shadow Street, $9.99
- The Other Emily, $2.49
- Clive Barker
Clive Barker is a well-known horror writer, film director, and author. Stephen King highly praised Clive Barker’s book of short stories – The Books of Blood. Clive is an author who fuses horror with high fantasy without adhering to conventional norms.
Several of his works, including Hellraiser and Candyman, have been adapted into films. Additionally, Barker was awarded the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his work on Gods and Monsters, a 1998 historical drama about the final days in the life of renowned film director James Whale.
Top Horror Novels
- Weaveworld, $3.99
- The Hellbound Heart, $11.99
- Books of Blood, Volume 1, $3.99
- Shirley Jackson
The renowned gothic hit to fame with their horror novel “The Haunting of Hill House,” which was published in 1989. Later, a 20th-century film would draw inspiration from the book. However, instead of adhering to standard horror narrative conventions, Jackson wrote one of the most well-known haunted home horror novels now available.
Top Horror Novels
- Dark Tales, $5.99
- We Have Always Lived In the Castle, $12.99
- The Letters of Shirley Jackson, $14.99
- The Haunting of Hill House, $11.99
- Bram Stoker
Dracula’s author, Bram Stoker, is practically associated with vampires due to Dracula novel’s fame. This Irish gothic author’s real name was Abraham Stoker and lived between 1847 and 1912, passing away after many strokes. To honor the legendary horror author, The Bram Stoker Award was founded in 1987 and has been presented annually since 1988. A lot of renowned authors such as Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, and Dean Koontz have bagged the “Popular Bram Stoker Award.”
Top Horror Novels
- The Jewel of Seven Stars, $0.99
- Dracula’s Guest, $0.00
- Dracula, $3.99
- Stephen King
Stephen King is definitely one of the best and most popular horror authors on this list. His first professional content sale occurred in 1967 with the publication of a short tale in Startling Mystery Stories. His first novel, Carrie, was published in 1971, and he has been publishing short tales and horror novels for nearly six decades. Stephen King is a King in real life as well and is known as the New York Times best-selling novelist.
Top Horror Novels
- ‘Salem’s Lot, $8.99
- Carrie, $8.99
- The Stand, $9.99
- The Shining, $8.99
- Pet Semetary, $13.99