r/horrorlit's Updated Top Ten Best Horror Novels For All Time

After 14 days of frantic clicking, r/horrorlit has updated its three-years-old former Top 10 Horror Novels of Eternity poll. As per the previous poll, we've only allowed one book per author in the Top Ten, but below this official listing you can see what the list would look like if we allowed it to turn into The Stephen King Show.

Drum roll, please...

• It (1986) - Stephen King - 68 points

• At the Mountains of Madness (1936) - H.P. Lovecraft - 64 points

• House of Leaves (2000) - Mark Z. Danielewski - 64 points

• The Haunting of Hill House (1959) - Shirley Jackson - 53 points

• The Fisherman (2016) - John Langan - 50 points

• Frankenstein (1818) - Mary Shelley - 39 points

• I Am Legend (1954) - Richard Matheson - 39 points

• Ghost Story (1979) - Peter Straub - 38 points

• Dracula (1897) - Bram Stoker - 38 points

• The Exorcist (1971) - William Peter Blatty - 37 points

Here's the Top Ten if more than one book by the same author (read: Stephen King) were allowed:

• It (1986) - Stephen King - 68 points

• At the Mountains of Madness (1936) - H.P. Lovecraft - 64 points

• House of Leaves (2000) - Mark Z. Danielewski - 64 points

• The Shining (1977) - Stephen King - 53 points

• The Haunting of Hill House (1959) - Shirley Jackson - 53 points

• The Fisherman (2016) - John Langan - 50 points

• Pet Sematary (1983) - Stephen King - 47 points

• 'Salem’s Lot (1975) - Stephen King - 43 points

• Frankenstein (1818) - Mary Shelley - 39 points

• I Am Legend (1954) - Richard Matheson - 39 points

And if you're interested in that kind of thing, here are the rest of the books that got 20 or more votes:

• The Hellbound Heart (1986) - Cliver Barker - 36 points

• The Terror (2007) - Dan Simmons - 34 points

• The Stand (1978) - Stephen King - 30 points

• Let the Right One In (2004) - John Ajvide Lindqvist - 28 points

• The Road (2006) - Cormac McCarthy - 26 points

• The Girl Next Door (1989) - Jack Ketchum - 23 points

• The Elementals (1981) - Michael McDowell - 21 points

• The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1943) - H.P. Lovecraft - 20 points

And here's the voting if you're interested.