Most Popular Horror Books of the 1960s

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The Magic of Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson

Horror · Short Stories

1966

Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant People

August Derleth, Mark Schorer

Horror · Short Stories

1966

Jules de Grandin

The Phantom Fighter

Seabury Quinn

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories

1966

Claimed

Francis Stevens

Fantasy · Horror

1966

So Dark a Heritage

Frank Belknap Long

Horror

1966

Dracula

Eando Binder, Craig Tennis

Horror

1966

Children of the Night

John Blackburn

Horror

1966

My Name Is Death and Other New Tales of Horror

Charles Birkin

Horror · Short Stories

1966

Where Terror Stalked and Other Horror Stories

Charles Birkin

Horror · Short Stories

1966

Powers of Darkness: Macabre Stories

Robert Aickman

Horror · Short Stories

1966

Black Medicine

Arthur J. Burks

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories

1966

Chamber of Horrors

Robert Bloch

Horror · Short Stories

1966

The Little People

John Christopher

Horror

1966

The Ghost Book #4

Fourth Ghost Book

James Turner

Horror · Ghosts · Psychological Horror · Weird Fiction · Anthology

1965

Monster Festival

Eric Protter, Edward Gorey

Horror · Gothic Horror · Psychological Horror · Anthology · Short Stories

May 31, 1965

Pan Book of Horror Stories #6

The Sixth Pan Book of Horror Stories

Herbert van Thal

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

December 6, 1965

Snowfall and Other Chilling Events

Elizabeth Walter

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories

1965

The Guardians

Through the Dark Curtain

Peter Saxon

Horror

1965

The Quick and the Dead

Vincent Starrett

Horror · Short Stories

1965

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

John Burke

Horror

1965

Ghouls in My Grave

Jean Ray

Horror · Short Stories

1965

Tales of Horror

Alan Riefe

Horror · Short Stories

1965

Force 97X

Pel Torro

Horror · Science Fiction

1965

The Novel of the White Powder

Arthur Machen

Horror · Short Stories

1965

The Novel of the Black Seal

Arthur Machen

Horror · Short Stories

1965

A Ring of Roses

John Blackburn

Horror

1965

The Smell of Evil

Charles Birkin

Horror · Short Stories

1965

Strange Harvest

Donald Wandrei

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Short Stories

1965

Tales in a Jugular Vein

Robert Bloch

Horror · Short Stories

1965

The Skull of the Marquis de Sade

Robert Bloch

Horror · Short Stories

1965

Twilight Zone Collections #6

Rod Serling's Twilight Zone Revisited

Rod Serling, Walter B Gibson

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

April 29, 1964

The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories #1

The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories

Robert Aickman

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

1964

Pan Book of Horror Stories #5

The Fith Book of Pan Book of Horror Stories

Herbert van Thal

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

January 1, 1964

The Rim of Morning

William Sloane

Horror · Science Fiction · Collection

1964

The Hand of Mary Constable

Paul Gallico

Horror

1964

The Coming of Jonathan Smith

Harry Ludlam

Horror

1964