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They only have film adaptations because they are great horror novels

agree 100% there are way better horror stories than interview with the vampire

But not always good movies adaptations. Some were terrible such as Legend of Hell House. The book was 10 times better.

Amen

I read most of them. I used to love the Goosebumps books.

Amiri Copeland I think most kids read the goosebump books.

Amiri Copeland I think most people born in the 80's and 90's did at some point. Marked a generation. The TV show as well.

me

Amiri Copeland Me! That's one of the main things that got me into creepy things, as well as the Haunted (a show that used to air on Animal Planet)

Twilight was absolute shit. I regret watching it and reading it.

Chiko was here How very 2011 of you.

Chiko was here YEEESSS! You make a joke, I LIKE!

ammar fawaz twilight is shit but dont dis harry potter therd are way more fans for harry potter than teilight first of all the harry potter novels are based on the friendships between harry harmioney and ron stupid

+whutzat Still true though. And no HP hate. I simply won't accept it

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You do realize that the PUBLIC votes on what will be the top 10, right? All WatchMojo does is make a video based on their results...

Still haven't gotten to that one, but it's on my reading list!

waffleweave 100%! The combination of loss and grief with horror is unequalled in my opinion. Being a dog owner just intensifies its power... My favorites though are The Stand, The Eyes of the Dragon, and the Dark Tower series (the 1st 3 at least). I prefer King when he verges on fantasy, but PS is undoubtedly the most terrifying

So does he, coincidentally. Legend has it he almost couldn’t finish it

waffleweave I do as well! I’m reading it right now and it’s soo eerie and foreboding

Pet Semetary scared the fuck outta me when I read it at 13. I had to keep the book in another room for a long time. Still one of the scariest and disturbing books I’ve read.

RealTyrax Same here. I would read it all night because I was afraid to turn off the lights and go to sleep.

Maybe because WatchMojo of course didn't bother to actually read any of the novels, but at the most read short summaries. There just isn't a popular enough movie adaptation of Salem's Lot to get their attention. Or maybe they didn't want to include it because it was essentially retelling the story of Dracula, transferred to a small American town. It was still an original and very good take on the vampire theme, but it was an obvious Hommage to Bram Stoker's novel.

Salem’s Lot is definitely much scarier than The Shining.

Salem's Lot is a masterpiece. I am surprised it didn't make the list.

dtrtus cay agree should replace it

I agree. I remember reading it when it first came out, scared the heck out of me. Then the first movie, though silly in parts, had some really scary scenes...the little kid vampire at the window, the gravedigger in the rocking chair...the ending scene where all the vampires were crawling out of the basement. Whoever did the makeup and special effects in that movie was a genius!

Is there? Just re read it again and it was still chilling and terrifying.

SPOT ON,

I won't like your comment because at the moment your comment has 27 likes ;-)

Pascal Schuler I might be stupid but what does that means

@@xvor_tex8577 It returns every 27 years

Pascal Schuler oh, I’m currently reading IT I haven’t reached a point where it tells me that he returns every 27 years

@@xvor_tex8577I'm reading the book too :-) I'm on page 651... In the book, It returns every 25-28 years to eat: 1904: explosion in the ironworks 1930: fire in the Black Spot 1958: first fight Loser Club vs It 1975: second fight Losers Club vs It And one of the Benjamin Walfisch songs of the 2017 It adaptation is called "Every 27 years" (good song btw)

***** xD

***** LOL

***** I thought of writing that...but knew that someone would beat me to it. Good play.

Chopskie 117 it was too scary

Chopskie 117 😂😂😂👌🏻 ikr

Robert Drangus "I have seen the future of horror, his name is Clive Barker!" - Stephen King "We haven't seen shit" - Mojoholics

Robert Drangus Barker (like Lovecraft) wile some of the best horror writers of all time, didn't really write any ground breaking novels. Their best works are all short stories and novellas, which are not included on this list.

Robert Drangus i knew something felt missing

Sebastian B. Strongly Disagree. Thief of Always should be on this list. And although it isn't really horror, I found Weaveworld to be Barker's lesser-known crowning glory.

Sebastian B. Also, Lovecraft died relatively early in his career (considering how persistent authors usually had to be to build a proper reputation), and didn't really get to see any of the acclaim he gained over time. He didn't really get the opportunity to write more than novellas.

TheSilentStorm I thought that too while watching this... but if you think about it, most great horror novels have been adapted, even if the resulted movie was bad. It's still a fair question though...

TheSilentStorm Well, this is an internet VIDEO. What else could they do? Just show a picture of the book and summarize it.

TheSilentStorm What you expected WatchMojo to actually READ some novels?

Danilo Carvalho That occurred to me as well.

J Rich I would have liked that, it would have been more to the point. It's just frustrating to watch because 99% of horror movies are bad and horror movies from the same decade are all the same thing.

I'd like to see that book adapted by a decent director all adaptations were disappointing

@@TheSpasticAvenger The first version where they turned Mr Barlow into a Nosferatu looking person instead of what Stephen King wrote in the book pissed me off. The second version with Rob Lowe they hired Rutger Hauer, (R.I.P.) for the part which was tailor made as written in the book. That versions was way better than the Ist version with David Soul. I believe they made another version after that, but I didn't watch it.

@@conniecarroll7222 The book deserves a 4 part mini-series it's even sectioned that way, with the right cast and director it could be fantastic. I'll have to look up the Rob/Rutger version, it still won't satisfy me but anythings better than the David Soul version.

any examples?

The scariest thing I've ever read was an Algernon Blackwood short story written in 1908 called A Psychical Invasion. Idk why it was so scary, but it terrified me.

its say top 10 horror novels not the scariest

You do realize that this list is made by the public, so of course most of the books on this list will be popular.

Sith'ari666 short stories is not on this list

IT is still better than Pet Sematary

House of Leaves deserved to put higher than both of them

Jessica Russian Sifontes I would agree if it wasn't for the retarded orgy and the shitty ending

Jessica Russian Sifontes It is overrated

Jessica Russian Sifontes agreed

Lol.

Fred Saberhagan's vampire novels, contemporary w/ rice's, were/are, so much better. Suzy Mckee Charnas' vampire novels, also contemporary w/ rice, are equally..... Say it w/me , kids, sooooo much better.

Suggestions: Top 10 HP Lovecraft stories Top 10 Edgar Allan Poe poems/short stories Top 10 poems pre 18th century Top 10 John Wayne films Top 10 historical warriors eg Romans Highlanders Samurai etc Top 10 martyrs (religious and political separate lists)

Ethan Latto i prefer nothing of this

DO TOP REN WORST MOVIES PLEASE

+TeaTime and that is your opinion what would you like to suggest then if my ideas aren't good enough

Ten opps

Javier Aguilar No, I was literally shitting myself for days after reading the Pet Cemetary. IT was OK but since I was much older (around 18-19) when I read it, it didn't scare me as much as Pet Cemetary which I read when I was 15.

+Javier Aguilar Most of Stephen King's books are better than IT, in my opinion.

No. Even King himself does

Javier Aguilar I'm gonna admit it. I didn't really find Pet Semetary scary. It was a good book don't get me wrong, but I feel like it's overlooked as a really scary book. I could see how it's scary, but it doesn't really keep me up at night. The Shining has an on going fear throughout the book and has an incredibly intense climax which makes me shiver.

I think they are both equally disturbing. The only thing setting them apart is length. IT’s massive amount of pages make for a more detailed story, making it more favorable among critics.

uchihadante77 Yeah, but they act very similar to the lumbering zombies that Night of the Living Dead brought us. That movie was heavily inspired by "Last Man on Earth," which was an adaptation of the book, "I am Legend."

we did read the book, the modern zombie is a take on the vampire. traditional zombies don't eat. why don't you read

They are 100% vampires. Specifically vampires not the living dead.

uchihadante77 they already know

In the 1954 novel by Richard Matheson their actually plague victims who suffer from Symptoms of Porphyria. Porphyria is a group of diseases in which substances called Porphyrins build up, negatively affecting the skin or nervous system that causes them to be more nocturnal. It is widely believed that Porphyria is a good explanation for the origin of Vampire and Werewolf legends, based upon certain perceived similarities between the condition and the folklore. Of course the plague victims in the novel would immediately go into a temporary comatose state when first stricken with the disease. Which is mistaken for death, and appeared to be coming back to life. In the three movie adaptations this is never fully explained. However, in the previous two film adaptations, The Omega Man (1971) and I Am Legend (2007) the plague victims differ form the ones described in the novel. In the first movie adaptations The Last Man on Earth 1964. The plague victims are a little more accurate to the ones described in the book, but they still lack many key elements. George Romero had in fact admitted that the 1954 novel was one of his biggest influences for his 1968 classic film Night of the Living Dead.

stuckinaboxhere They're not novels though. The Fall of the House of Usher is only 15 pages long, while At the Mountains of Madness is 80 pages and originally appeared in a pulp magazine alongside other stories.

Actually The Legend of Hell House is considered a Gothic Novel. I read it back in 1970s and it scared the hell out of me. The movie was terrible, but only had a PG rating where it needed to be R rating to be anywhere close to the book.

I didn't even know "The Picture of Dorian Gray" was a horror novel but it's one of my favourite books! A+ list !

Amityville was by Jay Anson, based off the DeFeo family being murdered in their beds by their son/brother w a rifle. Killed 6 people who weren't drugged or moved, lying face down and none even woke up

The picture of Dorian Grey is NOT a horror novel, but a deeply symbolic story about hedonism vs. religion, science vs. believe. Whoever puts it into such a list just because there is a mystic element with the painting and a murder or two along the way either hasn't really understood the story or has a very unconventional view of the horror genre. Might as well put the Gospel of St. Lukas onto the list, because there is that really horrifying scene in which a guy gets crucified, and then three days later, he comes out of the grave, with the bloody holes still through his hands and all. Like, that's totally Zombie horror, isn't it. ;-)

Road all except FRANKENSTEIN

Dick pole One of my favorites

My favorite

Indeed it is.

debra corrica I didn’t find that scary at all, just disturbing and cruel. If I remember correctly it wasn’t a horror, just a historical fiction.

Modern science fiction! W/ deep, horrific undertones.

Its more a gothic novel

Sometimes I think the ones who make these lists were all born after 1995

@@joehawkiins8712 😂😂😂

It is about vampires, but the way Matheson describes them, how they look and how they act, is very zombie-like. The book was adapted into a film in 1964 called The Last Man on Earth, and if you watch it you can see that it had a direct influence on the zombies in George A Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968)

@@sandorenckell5259 Except that zombies do not talk and the vampires communicate in Matheson's novella. The film adaptation did have the vampire's more zombie-like, but this is not how they are described in the novella itself. In the novella, they are intelligent, fast-moving, and capable of social interactions. This is not the case with zombie lore.

Chas Riley IKR!!!

Well, in my opinion Pet Sematary and Salem's Lot are also way better written than It. But yeah, I guess popularity is the key here. Everybody knows Pennywise.

@T. rexExpert01 what's PC ?

Salam's Lot was the first book of Stephen's I ever read thanks to the Mother of a guy I was dating. I never cared much for Pet Sematary as it made my skin crawl.

Pet Semitary is not the scariest but it is the most disturbing and full of fucked up shit.

fg I don't think books is their thing really...

Typical, non-literate millennials. Lol.

Will H. Authors that deserved at least a mention: -Joe Hill -Koji Suzuki (Ring) -Clive Barker -Ted Dekker -Steve Mosby (more psychological thriller but with novels as Cry for help, he beat novelists as Tom Harris, when it comes to disturbing) -Johan Deseyn (pretty unknown Belgian writer but still great, his style is similar to Barker, only more cyberpunk than sadomasochistic)

Jack Ketchum? Great splatterpunk writer. Shame he recently passed.

Fabrizio Bianchi Doesn't really matter to me

HE'S JUST A POOR BOY FROM A POOR FAMILY SPARE HIM HIS LIFE FROM HIS MONSTROSITYY

Easy come, Easy go, will you let me go ?

Nooo we will not let you go

Oh. My. God.

Nicole Tunis is it really scary I'm planning on reading it.

Kenshin1998 Himura lol don't read it alone at night!

The Omen novel is a novelization of the movie. Those don't count.

Sith'ari666​ I didn't realise that. Just googled and according to Wikipedia the novel was written by the same guy and in conjunction with the movie and was released 2 weeks before the movie as a marketing gimmick

Oh, really? I could be mistaken, I guess. If you enjoy it there's no problem with that, I'm just saying why it wasn't on the list.

Weaveworld by clive barker. that's Got to be a miniseries soon please.

Borger Storker 😂😂😂😂😂 that's a total horror!

I shit myself for years

Based on comments, I ain't gonna read it!

Buwahaha!!!

Lazy Canadian Agreed, but George Romero was inspired by I am Legend when he wrote the script for Night of the Living Dead.

HOSS Delgado Wile I see what you are saying, the term "modern zombie" pertains to the structure of what Romero created in NotLD. There have been zombies, and zombie like creatures in ancient lore for 1000s of years.

The book, not the movie.

Lazy Canadian Agreed. They were supposed to be vampires in the book. Nothing like the movie.

Lazy Canadian Um, "I am Legend" the book was written in 1954....pre-dates Romero, so........

WatchMojo.com Top 10 Stephen King, novels, please! And don't be a douche because I'm not suggesting this on your other website.

I agree! The scenes with the clown were good but I feel like Stephen always has great situations and ideas but ruins it with ridiculous endings. "It's a spider from another dimension!" 'He's actually the devil looking for souls!'

I have a phobia of clowns and spiders, so I won't ever be reading IT XD

Agreed. King has a tendency to have these great ideas, but can't seem to figure out where to go with them. So many of his endings are meh at best. He has had some good endings, but to me they are the exception rather than the rule.

Excellent book, and the adaptation is memorable The Innocents, staring Debra Kerr.

DMPepe one of the best novels ever written, and the film adaptation with Debra Kerr was outstanding. Quint at the window....yikes! Saw that as a little girl, still creeps me out. I wish that the film had also included the scene where the governess meets Quint on the staircase in the early dawn. Of all the ghost stories I’ve ever read, that passage was the creepiest ever. It’s a hard book to read, but so worth it.

Chugs and Stuff ever heard of opinion?

Chugs and Stuff that’s fair

and better than The Shining.

odinofanime Stephen King's son aswell, that family has horror in the veins.

MRxVoRtExX Gaming I know right? The guy got famous too without the help of his dad, so I believe that counts for something.

odinofanime He even used a pen name (instead of his real name, which is Joe Hillstorm King) in order to be treated as a regular horror writer, not as "the son of", he didn't want to be famous for the fact King is his father.

BjornV1994 yeah, he's really an awesome writer. Horns was awesome, and Nos4a2 may even be better then that (its really close though). He's also written the Locke and Key series, which is equally awesome. Its a shame WatchMojo just kinda ignored him, not even an honorable mention

***** Really? I can understand your disapproval of King, He was in his prime earlier on when he wrote the Shining and It, but Joe Hills works are anything but mundane. Horns gets you right into the action, giving you an understanding of the world and characters, and how fucked up everything is. Nos4a2 might be a little slow in the beginning, but thats just so he can set things up and give every important character a proper backstory (except for Maggie, some reason he just kinda tipped around her for a bit) Locke and Key also gets you right into the action as well, with the first few pages depicting a murder/rape, and then the following funeral. The man is one of the best authors that I've seen in a while

Dover Ben Indeed :p

I'm afraid this top 10 list will be quite operational when the critics arrive... *evil chuckle*

Emperor Palpatine she did

Shades of John Lennon!!! #9....#9....#9.... 😆😉

Yeah that was dumb.

Grif Daraconis Carrie, It, and The Shining are great books though. Especially "It" is a masterpiece in storytelling and a magnificent book.

Grif Daraconis King is not, especially these days, at heart a horror writer, and he admits that freely himself; that's why he dabbles in every genre, even if it's not so well. To be sure, and this is my being a fan of him, he does sometimes get a little bit too much credit for his works, which, you will find, while being prolific are sporadic in how often he actually strikes a cord. I forget who says it, but can we really call him a master when his best work was back in the 70s? I won't deny that he has great talent with words and prose, but there are much slower and better writers than King. King will be remembered in the same way that we remember Dickens, sure, but to be fair, Dickens is heavily remembered for his Christmas stories.

jajceboy "The Stand" is easily his best, although not his scariest.

Jeffrey Clemmons he was still writing great books after the 70's whoever said that has their head shoved up their ass.

First off no it dosent, remakes are shit, and two its already getting one and the kid from where the millers is pennywise

bannokelly18 whatever, just want to see a good movie, with updated special effects, i dont like of the monster ( spider ) that "appears" at the end ... they could try to make a good remake this time !

bannokelly18 Not anymore because Cary Fukanaga stepped down from the project so now the movie is floating around in production hell

Geovane Kürten Lopes didn't mean to come off offensive but about 90% of all remakes are horrible and I don't want that movie to become apart of it

bannokelly18 Same. The first one was already good enough. I loved it, some people didn't. But it's one of those movies you shouldn't touch

Such an awesome book

If they had just done that with The Haunting clips use the original and not that lousy remake.

It should be "top ten horror movies that has been portrayed on the big screen"

Keanu Phillip I know! That's the problem with their book lists..

These guys are your typical movie addicts

Keanu Phillip sadly they are.

Daenerys Targaryen It doesn't need to have clips, I do think that mojo's logic is something like this though: If the book has a film= X10 times superior!