10 Top Horror Books for Your Reading List

VIVA – Horror books have been part of the literary world for years, many people are realizing just how satisfying it is to settle into a scary story, feel the rush of adrenaline, and then close the book and of course, a story can be terrifying without necessarily being great art.

Here are 10 books which present many terrifying stories and are guaranteed to make the reader get carried away in the horror story.

1. Essential Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe is known as a great writer in detective stories and horror fiction, he has a talent for instilling a deep sense of fear in all of his writings. The characters and narrator tend to be fragile and mentally deranged, a manifestation of abnormal thought processes.

Behind his popularity as an American writer who likes to write dark stories, Poe also has a dark life story such as being underestimated, feeling lost, frustrated, all of which Poe has experienced. In this book, Poe capitalizes on everyone's fears and says that the world and the people around us are not the same as we see.

2. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

House of Leaves is one of the scariest books ever written.

From a fairly standard horror premise (revealing the inside of a house) Danielewski spins a dizzying tale involving multiple narrators who are a little difficult to understand, typographical mysteries and repetitive footnotes that manage to drag readers into the story and then make them doubt their own perceptions of the story.

It's a trick no one else has ever done with such dramatic effect, is a participatory experience than any other piece of literature that remembers dark madness at its core, not necessarily a pleasant one.

Rosemary (Mia Farrow), moves into an apartment in New York with her actor husband, Guy Woodhouse (John Cassavetes). After a long struggle to have children, Rosemary finally gets pregnant.

Readers will be carried away into the atmosphere into a pregnant woman while the story of other characters is a mystery, we will be made paranoid and suspicious of the stories of other characters. However, this won't really be shown before the final act, really the last scene in the film.

Thirty years ago, there was a murder at the Jounatan school. But the incident was covered up by the school. Not many people know, including the students there. Then, suddenly a tenth grader revealed the forbidden story to Jou. He said, the spirit of the slain victim would seek revenge.

Mass trance occurred in his school, not just once, but repeatedly. Jou's friends began to be terrorized by something unseen.

On the anniversary of Leoni's death, Ayu receives a strange SMS that causes a mysterious application called 'don't click' installed on her cellphone. Through the application, Ayu finds Leoni's diary which tells of her last days before she died.

Since then, tragic accidents have haunted the friends who used to harm Leoni. Others thought it was a coincidence, but Ayu knew that Leoni's ghost was seeking revenge.

Penpal story is a series of non-linear memories by an anonymous narrator who tries to understand the mysterious events that happened to him during his childhood, the truth of which has been kept from him by his mother all his life.

This book has a terrible story like the presence of a figure who has died. Told that Sonny couldn’t sleep. Then, he opened the window slightly, who knows the feeling of visiting him. However, he saw him catch someone standing on the terrace of his neighbor's house who had just died.

It was Mr. Johan, his neighbor who had just died, Sonny hurriedly banged on his parents' bedroom door. When her parents opened the door, they heard a knock on the front door.

This novel consists of seven chapters, each of which tells the story of a different person. Then the figure tells the story of his life. One of the figures told in this novel is Siti.

Several other figures are told in this novel, namely the figures of Ningsih, Marni, and Mary. Sara Wijayanto tells all the characters in this novel in sufficient detail and uses the first-person point of view.

This book tells the story of a family who inhabit their new home and a burial ground that can resurrect anyone who has died, in this book two-years-old Gage is killed by a speeding truck. Overcome with despair, Louis considers bringing his son back to life with the help of a burial ground.

As newlyweds, Waru and Kintan start hunting for a house for the two of them to live in. Their choice fell on a house in the Magelang area, the more they searched the big house, they began to find new rooms that raised many questions.

Moreover, the pavilion in the backyard, which the broker does not show in the photos; the basement, where a collection of old Javanese and Dutch books, as well as paintings of horse figures; and gamelan equipment and gongs that accumulate dust in the warehouse.

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From a fairly standard horror premise (revealing the inside of a house) Danielewski spins a dizzying tale involving multiple narrators who are a little difficult to understand, typographical mysteries and repetitive footnotes that manage to drag readers into the story and then make them doubt their own perceptions of the story.