Most Popular Horror Books of the 1990s

Discover popular Horror books from the 1990s, with reader ratings and new favorites to explore.

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From Hell

Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell

Horror · Comics

1997

8.4/10 17 ratings

The Green Mile

The Green Mile

Stephen King

Horror · Bram Stoker Award

1997

8.3/10 54 ratings

The Green Mile #1

The Two Dead Girls

Stephen King

Horror

1996

8.2/10 25 ratings

Summer of Night

Dan Simmons

Horror · Locus Award

1991

7.9/10 27 ratings

Needful Things

Stephen King

Horror

1991

7.6/10 56 ratings

Four Past Midnight

Stephen King

Horror · Bram Stoker Award · Short Stories

1990

7.7/10 43 ratings

Insomnia

Stephen King

Horror

1994

7.5/10 48 ratings

Nightmares and Dreamscapes

Stephen King

Horror · Short Stories

1993

7.4/10 47 ratings

Gerald's Game

Stephen King

Horror

1992

7.3/10 67 ratings

Bag of Bones

Stephen King

Horror · Bram Stoker Award · British Fantasy Award · Locus Award

1998

7.3/10 64 ratings

Rose Madder

Stephen King

Horror

1995

7.3/10 52 ratings

Desperation

Stephen King

Horror · Locus Award

1996

7.2/10 60 ratings

Hearts in Atlantis

Stephen King

Horror · Short Stories

1999

7.1/10 39 ratings

Gravity

Tess Gerritsen

Horror · Science Fiction · Thriller

1999

6.9/10 14 ratings

Hellboy #1

Hellboy: Seed of Destruction

Mike Mignola, John Byrne

Fantasy · Horror · Comics

1994

7.0/10 24 ratings

The Vampire Diaries #3

The Fury

L. J. Smith

Horror · Young Adult

1991

6.8/10 129 ratings

The Vampire Diaries #4

Dark Reunion

L. J. Smith

Horror · Young Adult

1992

6.8/10 111 ratings

The Vampire Diaries #2

The Struggle

L. J. Smith

Horror · Young Adult

1991

6.6/10 143 ratings

The Golden

Lucius Shepard

Horror · Vampires · Locus Award

1993

6.5/10 22 ratings

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Fred Saberhagen, James V. Hart

Horror · Vampires

1992

6.6/10 16 ratings

The Fetch

Robert Holdstock

Fantasy · Horror

1991

6.6/10 24 ratings

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

Stephen King

Horror

1999

6.5/10 84 ratings

The Vampire Diaries #1

The Awakening

L. J. Smith

Horror · Young Adult

1991

6.5/10 190 ratings

Children of the Night

Dan Simmons

Horror · Vampires · Locus Award

1992

6.3/10 24 ratings

The Blood Opera #1

Dark Dance

Tanith Lee

Horror

1992

5.1/10 18 ratings

Shadows Over Innsmouth #1

Shadows Over Innsmouth

Stephen Jones

Horror · Cthulhu · Psychological Horror · Weird Fiction · Anthology

1994

10.0/10 2 ratings

A Prayer for the Dying

Stewart O'Nan

Horror

1999

10.0/10 1 ratings

Horowitz Horror

Anthony Horowitz

Horror · Short Stories

1999

More Annotated H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction

1999

10.0/10 1 ratings

Catchman

Chris Wooding

Horror · Young Adult

1998

The Annotated H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction

1997

10.0/10 1 ratings

The Loved Dead and Other Revisions

H. P. Lovecraft

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

1997

10.0/10 1 ratings

Mythos Omnibuses #2

Brian Lumley's Mythos Omnibus Volume Two

Brian Lumley

Fantasy · Horror · Cthulhu

1997

10.0/10 1 ratings

Mythos Omnibuses #1

Brian Lumley's Mythos Omnibus Volume One

Brian Lumley

Fantasy · Horror · Cthulhu

1997

10.0/10 1 ratings

Sabat

Dead Meat: The Complete Books of Sabat

Guy N. Smith

Horror

1996

The Diaries of the Family Dracul #3

Lord of the Vampires

Jeanne Kalogridis

Horror

1996

10.0/10 1 ratings