Horror novels adapted into films

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 Gothic novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature from different body parts in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18 and staying in Bath, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared in the second edition, which was published in Paris in 1821.

1890–1891 novel by Oscar Wilde

novel by Victor Hugo

Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. The narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist and opens with English solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula. Revealing his true nature as a vampire, Dracula moves to England and plagues the seaside town of Whitby. Harker joins a group led by Abraham Van Helsing who hunt and kill the Count.

2005 novel by Stephenie Meyer

1886 novella by Robert Louis Stevenson

1910 novel by Gaston Leroux

1897 science fiction novel by H. G. Wells

1977 novel by Stephen King

1985 novel by Patrick Süskind

1987 novel by Stephen King

1975 novel by Stephen King

2005 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro

1817 novel by Jane Austen

Goosebumps is a series of children's horror novels written by American author R. L. Stine. The protagonists in these stories are tweens or young teens who find themselves in frightening scenarios, often involving the supernatural, the paranormal or the occult. Between 1992 and 1997, sixty-two books were published under the Goosebumps umbrella title. R. L. Stine also wrote various spin-off series, including, Goosebumps Series 2000, Give Yourself Goosebumps, Tales to Give You Goosebumps, Goosebumps Triple Header, Goosebumps HorrorLand, Goosebumps Most Wanted and Goosebumps SlappyWorld. Additiona

1991 novel by Bret Easton Ellis

1954 novel by Richard Matheson

Coraline () is a 2002 British fantasy horror children's novella by author Neil Gaiman. Gaiman started writing Coraline in 1990, and it was published in 2002 by Bloomsbury and HarperCollins. It was awarded the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novella, the 2003 Nebula Award for Best Novella, and the 2002 Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers. The Guardian ranked Coraline #82 in its list of 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. It was adapted as a 2009 stop-motion animated film, directed by Henry Selick under the same name.

novel by Daphne du Maurier

novel by Horace Walpole

1983 children's book by Roald Dahl

Carmilla is an 1872 Gothic novella by Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. A foundational work of English-language vampire literature, it predated Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) by 25 years. First published as a serial in The Dark Blue from 1871–72, the novella subsequently appeared in Le Fanu’s short story collection In a Glass Darkly in 1872. Set in 19th century Styria, it is the story of a young woman who is pursued by the vampire Carmilla. Since its initial publication, Carmilla has often been regarded as one of the most influential vampire stories of all time, and popularized the lesbian v

Cujo () is a 1981 horror novel by American writer Stephen King about a Saint Bernard who contracts rabies, then goes on a killing spree in his hometown. The novel won the British Fantasy Award in 1982 and was made into a film in 1983. Cujo's name was based on the alias of Willie Wolfe, one of the men responsible for orchestrating Patty Hearst's kidnapping and indoctrination into the Symbionese Liberation Army. King discusses Cujo in On Writing, referring to it as a novel he "barely remembers writing at all." King wrote the book during the height of his struggle with alcohol addiction. King goe

1988 novel by Thomas Harris

novel by Yukito Ayatsuji

1983 novel by Stephen King

novel by Victor Hugo

1892 novel by Jules Verne

1991 novel by Stephen King

1981 novel by Thomas Harris

novel by H. Rider Haggard

1951 novel by John Wyndham

1898 novella by Henry James

2013 novel by Stephen King

novel by Stephen King

1989 novel by Stephen King

2001 novel by Stephen King

2006 novel by Max Brooks

1974 novel by American writer Peter Benchley

1999 novel by Koushun Takami

novel by John Fowles

1996 novel by Stephen King

1992 suspense novel by Stephen King

novella by Stephen King

novel by the Russian author Alexander Belyayev

2006 novel by Thomas Harris

1969 novel by Michael Crichton

1796 novel by Matthew Lewis

novel by Robert Bloch (1959)

1972 novel by Ira Levin

2014 novel by Jeff VanderMeer

1980 novella by Stephen King

novel by Gustav Meyrink

1967 novel by Ira Levin

comics limited series by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell

1995 novel by Christopher Priest

novel by William Faulkner

novel by V. C. Andrews

1991 horror novel by Koji Suzuki

novel series by Hideyuki Kikuchi