The Best Horror Books

Books have been around for centuries. There are all different types of books available for your reading pleasure. You can catch up on the latest hot spots in one of several travel books, or you can find your own hot spot by indulging in some of the greatest horror books of all time.

Let us go back in time to the seventeenth century when one of the best horror stories ever written came into print. I am talking about William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth, first written around 1606. Shakespeare drew the plot from a loose account of the historical King Macbeth of Scotland. There is believed to be a curse on the play and many actors to this day will not speak the name of the play aloud.

Now let us jump ahead to the twentieth century and the time of Stephen King. In 1977, Stephen King release one of the most chilling horror books of our time, The Shining. His third novel, The Shining was King’s first best-selling hardback and helped to establish his dominant status in the genre of horror. A well-known film adaptation of the book starring Jack Nicholson was released in 1980.