In this genre for books there are some classics which everybody knows of even if they haven't read them, like Dracula, Frankenstein, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and much of the work of Edgar Allen Poe. Then you have the authors that everybody knows and automatically identifies as being a horror writer, like Stephen King and Dean Koontz, and then there's a whole other range of horror novels that are not famous, their writers are not overly known to the public, but the stories are thrilling and terrifying nonetheless.

So of this category, what have you read, and what would you recommend?

I've read Dracula, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, the Tell-Tale Heart, Fall on the House of Usher, Psycho, Pscyho II, Pscyho House, Tales from the Darkside, Carrie, Misery, Return of the Living Dead, Beware! Beware! (collection of short stories), The Exorcist, Ghost House, the trilogy of Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories, the Scariest Stories You've Ever Heard trilogy, The Blob, Phantom of the Opera and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

I don't think I've read anything that can be considered horror, although my first attempt at a crime novel might be considered horroresque, or at least I've been told that.