Top 10 Horror Books to Read

In terror, many emotions are provoked that are intended to generate something in the reader, from fear and horror to despair or anguishIn this genre there are monsters or beings that cause a feeling of uneasiness that will not leave indifferent the people who dare to read these books.

That’s why, here we bring you a list of the best horror books that will scare you and keep you awake.

• Dracula by Bram Stoker: tells the story of a count of Transylvania who seeks victims to satisfy his thirst for blood.
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: It is about Victor Frankenstein, a medical student who creates a body from several corpses in order to give it life.
• Interview with the vampire by Anne Rice: tells the story of Louis, who is a vampire living in New Orleans and joins a lost girl named Claudia, whom he ends up vampirizing.
• The Call of Cthulhu by HP Lovecraft: tells the story of a much feared creature that appears to be a forgotten god.
• The Shining by Stephen King: It’s about Jack Torrance and his family, who have to move into a hotel to take care of him, but as the days go by, chilling things begin to happen.
• Our share of night by Mariana Enríquez: tells the story of a father who tries to get his son to become a medium in an Order that has contact with darkness in search of eternal life through terrible rituals.
• Cardigan by Daphne du Maurier: is a novel starring Winter, the second wife of the owner of Manderley, a mansion that has the spirit of the owner’s first wife, Rebecca.
• The legend of the headless horseman by Washington Irving: It’s about a schoolteacher who arrives in the town of Sleepy Hollow, where there are ghost stories, which he doesn’t believe in. But one night, he discovers that maybe they aren’t just stories.
• Gothic by Silvia Moreno-García: it is about a student who lives in Mexico and receives a letter from her cousin, who asks for her help because she believes an isolated mansion is in danger.
• Book Club Guide to Killing Vampires by Grady Hendrix: tells the story of Patricia and the book club she joined. After several children go missing, she begins to suspect that the new man in the book club is a vampire.

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