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Goodreads "Quality Dark Fiction" 2021 Update - Now 4.44 Times as Long - Page 2

This dark challenge is mostly sinister & ghoulish, but is also amusing at times, given some of the entries.
According to Alan Baxter, the Goodreads author who originally compiled this list, "my novels are dark fantasy thrillers, so I thought I'd make a list with quality dark fiction, particularly dark genre fiction and include books that have appealed to me or that have inspired my writing over the years."
BTW, is 444 (the length of this list) supposed to be a special number like 666?
Only books with 2000+ ratings and 3+ votes were included. A few partially overlapping titles have been retained.
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avg. score: 56 of 444 (13%)
required scores: 1, 26, 44, 59, 80 

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Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
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The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (H.P. Lovecraft)
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (H.P. Lovecraft)
43
Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn)
Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn)
44
The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
45
The Time Machine (H.G. Wells)
The Time Machine (H.G. Wells)
46
The Zombie Room (R.D. Ronald)
The Zombie Room (R.D. Ronald)
47
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
48
The Haunting of Hill House (Shirley Jackson)
The Haunting of Hill House (Shirley Jackson)
49
Let the Right One in (John Ajvide Lindqvist)
Let the Right One in (John Ajvide Lindqvist)
50
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Ray Bradbury)
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Ray Bradbury)
51
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Stieg Larsson)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Stieg Larsson)
52
The Turn of the Screw (Henry James)
The Turn of the Screw (Henry James)
53
Red Dragon (Thomas Harris)
Red Dragon (Thomas Harris)
54
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick)
55
Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
56
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
57
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
58
The Night Watch (Sergei Lukyanenko)
The Night Watch (Sergei Lukyanenko)
59
Oryx and Crake (Margaret Atwood)
Oryx and Crake (Margaret Atwood)
60
The Historian (Elizabeth Kostova)
The Historian (Elizabeth Kostova)
61
Batman: The Killing Joke (Alan Moore)
Batman: The Killing Joke (Alan Moore)
62
Rosemary's Baby (Ira Levin)
Rosemary's Baby (Ira Levin)
63
I Am Legend (Richard Matheson)
I Am Legend (Richard Matheson)
64
The Exorcist (William Peter Blatty)
The Exorcist (William Peter Blatty)
65
Beowulf (Tr. Seamus Heaney)
Beowulf (Tr. Seamus Heaney)
66
Titus Groan (Mervyn Peake)
Titus Groan (Mervyn Peake)
67
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
68
Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
69
Misery (Stephen King)
Misery (Stephen King)
70
Watership Down (Richard Adams)
Watership Down (Richard Adams)
71
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
72
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Angela Carter)
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Angela Carter)
73
The Island of Doctor Moreau (H.G. Wells)
The Island of Doctor Moreau (H.G. Wells)
74
Ghost Story (Peter Straub)
Ghost Story (Peter Straub)
75
The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux)
The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux)
76
The War of the Worlds (H.G. Wells)
The War of the Worlds (H.G. Wells)
77
Perdido Street Station (China MiƩville)
Perdido Street Station (China Miéville)
78
The Talisman (Stephen King)
The Talisman (Stephen King)
79
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
80
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey (Homer)
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