The Horror Readers Evolution

It all begins with Halloween... Scooby Doo. Mysteries. The transformation scene in Pinocchio.

Picture Books

• The Big Pumpkin, Erica Silverman
• Too Many Pumpkins, Linda White
• Spooky Hour, Tony Mitton
• Boo! Robert Munsch 

Children's Horror

• Goosebumps, RL Stine
• Fear Street R L Stine
• Shivers, MD Spenser
• Spine Tinglers, MT Coffin
• Scary Stories, Alvin Schwarts 
• Bone Chillers, Betsy Haynes

YA Horror

• Coraline, Neil Gaiman
• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs

Classics

• Frankenstein, Mary Shelly
• Dracula, Bram Stoker
• Dr. Jekyll & Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
• Edgar Allen Poe, Collection

Adult Authors

• Richard Laymon
• Stephen King
• Richard Matheson
• Dean Koonze
• Jack Ketchum
• Clive Barker

Famous Movies That Are Books

• The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty
• The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
• Rosemary's Baby, Ira Levin
• Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris
• Jaws, Peter Benchley
• 30 Days of Night, Tim Lebbon
• Cabin in the Woods, Tim Lebbon

There are lots of things here that I left out so please leave a comment if you have a must read horror novel that comes to mind right away.