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Statistics About The Most Disturbing Horror Books

Providing a comprehensive analysis of statistics surrounding the most disturbing horror books, including factors such as sales, reader ratings, and themes.

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""The Exorcist" by William Peter Blatty has sold over 13 million copies worldwide."

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""Psycho" by Robert Bloch inspired the famous movie by Hitchcock, and sold 17,000 copies within weeks of publication."

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""Rosemary's Baby" by Ira Levin has a 3.98 out of 5 rating on Goodreads from over 94,000 ratings."

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""Hell House" by Richard Matheson sold 1 million copies after its publication in 1971."

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"Nearly 80% of the reviewers on Amazon for "House of Leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski have given it 4 or 5 stars."

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""The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson has been translated into at least five languages."

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""The Girl Next Door" by Jack Ketchum is based on a real life crime that occurred in 1965."

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"Over 200 copies of "American Psycho" were sold daily in its first year of publication."

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""The Silence of the Lambs" by Thomas Harris is part of the Hannibal Lecter series, which has collectively sold over 5 million copies."

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"The author of "The Amityville Horror", Jay Anson, claimed it to be based on a true story, leading to 10 million copies sold."

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""Bird Box" by Josh Malerman caused more than 200,000 mentions on Twitter within a week after its film adaptation was released on Netflix."

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""It" by Stephen King has a 4.24 out of 5 rating on Goodreads from over 750,000 ratings."

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""The Ring" by Koji Suzuki has a total global sales (all books in the series) of 23 million copies."

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""Survivor" by J.F. Gonzalez is part of the extreme horror genre, which has been coined "splatterpunk"."

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""The Ruins" by Scott Smith has about 72% of its Amazon reviewers rating it 4 or 5 stars."

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""Ghost Story" by Peter Straub was chosen by The Washington Post as 1 out of the 100 most significant books published in 1979."

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""Blindsight" by Peter Watts has been nominated for several major science fiction awards including the Hugo and Locus."

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""I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison won the Hugo Award in 1968 for Best Short Story."

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