Most Popular Horror Books of the 1960s

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We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Shirley Jackson

Horror

1962

7.7/10 27 ratings

Green Town

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Ray Bradbury

Fantasy · Horror

1962

7.6/10 38 ratings

Rosemary's Baby #1

Rosemary's Baby

Ira Levin

Horror

1967

6.9/10 21 ratings

Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos

August Derleth

Horror · Anthology

1969

10.0/10 1 ratings

Fontana Tales of Terror

European Tales of Terror

J. J. Strating

Horror · Psychological Horror · Weird Fiction · Anthology

December 1968

10.0/10 1 ratings

The Disorientated Man

Peter Saxon

Horror

1967

Between the Minute & the Hour: Stories of the Unseen

A. M. Burrage

Horror · Short Stories

1967

The Unquiet Grave

August Derleth

Horror · Anthology

1964

10.0/10 1 ratings

The Inhabitant of the Lake & Less Welcome Tenants

Ramsey Campbell

Horror · Short Stories

1964

10.0/10 1 ratings

Twilight Zone Collections #5

Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone

Rod Serling, Walter B Gibson

Horror · Science Fiction · Collection · Short Stories · TV Series

1963

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories of the Supernatural

Robert Louis Stevenson

Horror · Science Fiction · Weird Fiction · Anthology · Collection

1963

10.0/10 1 ratings

Some of Your Blood

Theodore Sturgeon

Horror

1961

10.0/10 1 ratings

The Brides of Dracula

Dean Owen

Horror

1960

10.0/10 1 ratings

The House of the Nightmare and Other Eerie Tales

Kathleen Lines

Horror · Gothic Horror · Psychological Horror · Weird Fiction · Collection

1967

9.0/10 1 ratings

Horror-7

Robert Bloch

Horror · Short Stories

1963

8.3/10 3 ratings

Dreams and Fancies

H. P. Lovecraft

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

1962

8.0/10 3 ratings

The Small Assassin

Ray Bradbury

Horror · Science Fiction · Short Stories

1962

8.0/10 3 ratings

The Living Demons

Robert Bloch

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories

1967

The Vintage Bradbury

Ray Bradbury

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Mainstream

1965

8.0/10 1 ratings

The Insanity of Jones and Other Tales

Algernon Blackwood

Horror · Short Stories

1964

8.0/10 1 ratings

Selected Tales of Algernon Blackwood

Algernon Blackwood

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories

1964

8.0/10 1 ratings

Asleep in Armageddon

Michael Sissons

Horror · Science Fiction

1962

8.0/10 1 ratings

Kiss Kiss

Roald Dahl

Horror · Short Stories

1960

7.0/10 2 ratings

Come Along With Me

Shirley Jackson

Horror · Short Stories

1968

7.0/10 1 ratings

Castle Terror

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Horror

1965

Pleasant Dreams

Robert Bloch

Horror · Short Stories

1960

6.0/10 1 ratings

The Scarlet Boy

Arthur Calder-Marshall

Horror

1961

5.0/10 3 ratings

The Trail of Cthulhu

August Derleth

Horror · Short Stories

1962

5.1/10 8 ratings

The Ghost Book #5

The Fifth Ghost Book

Rosemary Timperley

Horror · Ghosts · Psychological Horror · Weird Fiction · Anthology

1969

The Amazing Mr Blunden

Antonia Barber

Horror · Childrens · Ghosts · Gothic Horror · Historical Fiction

December 1, 1969

The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories #5

The Fith Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories

Robert Aickman

Horror · Ghosts · Gothic Horror · Psychological Horror · Weird Fiction

December 1969

Pan Book of Horror Stories #10

The Tenth Pan Book of Horror Stories

Herbert van Thal

Horror · Gothic Horror · Psychological Horror · Splatterpunk · Weird Fiction

December 7, 1969

Pan Book of Horror Stories #4

The Fourth Pan Book of Horror Stories

Herbert van Thal

Horror · Psychological Horror · Splatterpunk · Weird Fiction · Anthology

December 4, 1969

Neither the Sea Nor the Sand

Gordon Honeycombe

Horror

1969

Devilday #1

Devilday

Angus Hall

Horror

1969

The Woman Who Would Not Die

Carolyn Busey Bauman

Horror

1969