Most Popular Horror Books of the 1970s

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The Stand

Stephen King

Horror · Post-Apocalyptic

1978

8.4/10 98 ratings

The Shining #1

The Shining

Stephen King

Horror

1977

8.3/10 164 ratings

Night Shift

Stephen King

Horror · Short Stories

1978

8.1/10 50 ratings

The Exorcist #1

The Exorcist

William Peter Blatty

Horror

1971

8.0/10 19 ratings

'Salem's Lot

Stephen King

Horror

1975

7.8/10 108 ratings

The Bloody Chamber And Other Stories

Angela Carter

Horror · Short Stories

1979

7.5/10 18 ratings

The Vampire Chronicles #1

Interview with the Vampire

Anne Rice

Horror · Vampires

1976

7.4/10 180 ratings

The Dead Zone

Stephen King

Horror

1979

7.4/10 51 ratings

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

H. P. Lovecraft

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

1970

7.3/10 36 ratings

Carrie

Stephen King

Horror

1974

6.8/10 194 ratings

Ghost Story

Peter Straub

Horror

1979

7.0/10 18 ratings

Rats #1

The Rats

James Herbert

Horror · Science Fiction

1974

6.5/10 24 ratings

The Dracula Horror Series #6

The Witching of Dracula

Robert Lory

Horror

1974

10.0/10 1 ratings

Painted Devils: Strange Stories

Robert Aickman

Horror · Short Stories

1979

10.0/10 1 ratings

Falling Angel

William Hjortsberg

Horror

1978

10.0/10 1 ratings

The Satanists

Robert Black

Horror

1977

All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By

John Farris

Horror

1977

10.0/10 1 ratings

The Curse of the Fleers

Basil Copper

Horror

1976

10.0/10 1 ratings

Cold Hand in Mine: Eight Strange Stories

Robert Aickman

Horror · Short Stories

1975

10.0/10 1 ratings

Ghost Stories and Mysteries

Sheridan Le Fanu

Horror · Short Stories

1971

The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions

H. P. Lovecraft

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

1970

9.5/10 2 ratings

The Doom That Came to Sarnath and Other Stories

H. P. Lovecraft

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction

1971

9.3/10 7 ratings

Manitou #1

The Manitou

Graham Masterton

Horror

1975

10.0/10 1 ratings

Weird Legacies

Mike Ashley

Horror · Psychological Horror · Weird Fiction · Anthology · Short Stories

August 30, 1977

9.0/10 1 ratings

Out of Space and Time: Volume 1

Clark Ashton Smith

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

1974

9.0/10 1 ratings

The Shuttered Room and Other Tales of Horror

H. P. Lovecraft, August Derleth

Horror · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

1971

9.0/10 1 ratings

At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror

H. P. Lovecraft

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction

1971

8.6/10 9 ratings

The Lurking Fear and Other Stories

H. P. Lovecraft

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction

1971

8.3/10 6 ratings

The Tomb and Other Tales

H. P. Lovecraft

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

1970

8.3/10 6 ratings

The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western

Richard Brautigan

Horror

1974

8.0/10 2 ratings

Saint-Germain #1

Hôtel Transylvania

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Horror

1978

8.0/10 2 ratings

The Spirit

Thomas Page

Fantasy · Horror

1977

8.0/10 1 ratings

The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories #15

The Fifteenth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Storie

R. Chetwynd-Hayes

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

November 1979

8.0/10 1 ratings

Pan Book of Horror Stories #20

The 20th Pan Book of Horror Stories

Herbert van Thal

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

September 28, 1979

8.0/10 1 ratings

Rats #2

Lair

James Herbert

Horror · Science Fiction

1979

8.0/10 1 ratings

Tales of Love and Death

Robert Aickman

Horror · Short Stories

1977

8.0/10 1 ratings