Most Popular Horror Books of the 1970s

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The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The Giant Rat of Sumatra

Richard L. Boyer

Horror · Crime Fiction · Sherlock Holmes · Historical Fiction · Mystery

1976

8.0/10 1 ratings

Kings of Horror

Robert W. Chambers, Arthur Machen

Horror · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

1975

8.0/10 1 ratings

Titus Crow #1

The Burrowers Beneath

Brian Lumley

Fantasy · Horror · Cthulhu

1974

8.0/10 1 ratings

Lost Worlds: Volume 2

Clark Ashton Smith

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

1974

8.0/10 1 ratings

Metamorphosis and Other Stories

Franz Kafka

Horror · Magical Realism · Short Stories · Translation

1971

8.0/10 1 ratings

The Spawn of Cthulhu

Lin Carter

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Anthology

1971

8.0/10 1 ratings

The Other

Thomas Tryon

Horror

1971

7.5/10 2 ratings

The Vision

Dean Koontz

Horror

1977

7.1/10 13 ratings

Out of Space and Time: Volume 2

Clark Ashton Smith

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

1974

7.0/10 1 ratings

Hell House

Richard Matheson

Horror

1971

6.7/10 18 ratings

Shattered

K. R. Dwyer

Horror

1973

6.9/10 7 ratings

The Face of Fear

Dean Koontz

Horror

1977

6.9/10 15 ratings

Julia

Peter Straub

Horror

1975

6.3/10 8 ratings

The Monster Club

R. Chetwynd-Hayes

Horror · Short Stories

1975

7.0/10 7 ratings

Came a Spider

Edward Levy

Horror

1978

6.0/10 2 ratings

Alien trilogy #1

Alien

Alan Dean Foster

Horror · Science Fiction · Alien · Movie

1979

6.5/10 2 ratings

The Fog

James Herbert

Horror · Science Fiction

1975

6.1/10 18 ratings

Our Lady of Darkness

Fritz Leiber

Fantasy · Horror · World Fantasy Award

1977

6.0/10 3 ratings

Dracula sequence #1

The Dracula Tape

Fred Saberhagen

Fantasy · Horror

1975

6.0/10 3 ratings

Dollanganger Children #1

Flowers in the Attic

Virginia C. Andrews

Horror · Gothic Horror · Psychological Horror

1979

6.0/10 1 ratings

Demon Seed

Dean Koontz

Horror · Science Fiction

1973

6.0/10 2 ratings

Suffer the Children

John Saul

Horror

1977

6.0/10 1 ratings

The Doll Who Ate His Mother

Ramsey Campbell

Fantasy · Horror

1976

6.0/10 1 ratings

Night Chills

Dean Koontz

Horror

1976

6.0/10 1 ratings

Invasion

Aaron Wolfe

Horror

1975

6.0/10 1 ratings

If You Could See Me Now

Peter Straub

Horror

1977

6.0/10 9 ratings

The Book of Skulls

Robert Silverberg

Horror · Science Fiction

1972

5.5/10 2 ratings

Night Fear

Frank Belknap Long

Horror · Science Fiction · Short Stories

1979

4.8/10 6 ratings

The Bram Stoker Bedtime Companion

Bram Stoker

Horror · Gothic Horror · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

1973

4.0/10 1 ratings

The Ghost Book

The Third Bumper Book of Ghost Stories

James Hale

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

1979

Year's Best Horror Stories (US) #7

The Year's Best Horror Stories Series VII

Gerald W. Page

Horror · Psychological Horror · Anthology · Short Stories

1979

Quatermass #3

Quatermass

Nigel Kneale

Horror · Science Fiction · TV Series

June 19, 1979

The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes

Loren Estleman

Horror · Crime Fiction · Sherlock Holmes · Historical Fiction · Mystery

1979

Armada Ghost Book #11

The Eleventh Armada Ghost Book

Mary Danby

Horror · Childrens · Ghosts · Anthology · Short Stories

October 19, 1979

Armada Monster Book #5

The Fifth Armada Monster Book

R. Chetwynd-Hayes

Fantasy · Horror · Childrens · Dragons · Anthology

1979

The Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories #12

The Twelfth Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories

Mary Danby

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

1979