For sake of simplification and to beg off any early arguments, a number of the novels listed here might not strictly be considered "horror" by modern genre expectations, but all are at least related to the genre, influential upon the genre, and/or earlier incarnations of literature that would lend itself toward being horror or horror related.
The Monk - by Matthew Lewis
Dracula - by Bram Stoker
Frankenstein - by Mary Shelley
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Castle of Otronto - by Horace Walpole
The Picture of Dorian Gray - by Oscar Wilde
Vathek - by William Beckford
The Italian - by Ann Radcliffe
The Missing - by Sarah Langan
Headstone City - by Tom Piccirilli
The Deceased - by Tom Piccirilli
Interview with the Vampire - by Anne Rice
The String of Pearls: A Romance - by multiple authors
The Stand - by Stephen King
Salem's Lot - by Stephen King
The Shining - by Stephen King
It - by Stephen King
The Midwich Cuckoos - by John Wyndham
Ghost Story - by Peter Straub
Shadowland - by Peter Straub
Darkness, Tell Us - by Richard Laymon
Funland - by Richard Laymon
Blood of the Land - by Thomas F. Monteleone
They Thirst - by Robert R. McCammon
Swan's Song - by Robert R. McCammon
Blue World - by Robert R. McCammon
The Hellbound Heart - by Clive Barker
American Psycho - by Bret Easton Ellis
The Keep - by F. Paul Wilson
Blood Dance - by Joe R. Lansdale
Monster Island - by David Wellington
The House of Seven Gables - by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Abandon - by Blake Crouch
Heart-Shaped Box - by Joe Hill
The Alienist - by Caleb Carr
Afraid - by Jack Kilborn
One Thousand and One Ghosts - by Alexandre Dumas
Darkly Dreaming Dexter - by Jeff Lindsay
Red Dragon - by Thomas Harris
The Silence of the Lambs - by Thomas Harris
The Ruins - by Scott Smith
Coma - by Robin Cook
Whispers - by Dean Koontz
Watchers - by Dean Koontz
Lightning - by Dean Koontz
The Stepford Wives - by Ira Levin
Rosemary's Baby - by Ira Levin
The Phantom of the Opera - by Gaston Leroux
I Am Legend - by Richard Matheson
Hell House - by Richard Matheson
Creature - by John Saul
By Reason of Insanity - by Shane Stevens
The Book of Days - by Steve Rasnic Tem
Slob - by Rex Miller
Drawing Blood - by Poppy Z. Brite
The Girl Next Door - by Jack Ketchum
Ladies' Night - by Jack Ketchum
The Shaft - by David Schow
The Light at the End - by John Skipp & Craig Spector
The End of Alice - by A. M. Homes
Conjure Wife - by Fritz Leiber
World War Z - by Max Brooks
Hollowland - by Amada Hocking
Ashes - by Scott Nicholson
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - by Seth Grahame-Smith
33 A.D. - by David McAfee
Carrion Comfort - by Dan Simmons
Creepers - by David Morrell
Dead Until Dark - by Charlaine Harris
The Human Chord - by Algernon Blackwood
Twilight - by Stephenie Meyer
Psycho - by Robert Bloch
The Exorcist - by William Peter Blatty
The Wolfen - by Whitley Strieber
Lizzie Borden - by Elizabeth Engstrom
Midnight Sun - by Ramsey Campbell
The False House - by James Stoddard
Sex and Violence in Hollywood - by Ray Garton
The Haunting of Hill House - by Shirley Jackson
We Have Always Live in the Castle - by Shirley Jackson
The Rising - by Brian Keene
Face - by Tim Lebbon
Hotel Transylvania - by Chelsea Quinn Yarbor
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward - by H. P. Lovecraft
Necroscope - by Brian Lumley
The Tain - by China Mieville
Serenity Falls - by James A. Moore
Zombie - by Joyce Carol Oates
American Gods - by Neil Gaiman
Skeletons - by Al Sarrontonio
Live Girls - by Ray Garton
Geek Love - by Katherine Dunn
My Soul to Keep - by Tananarive Due
Wuthering Heights - by Emily Bronte
The Fog - by James Herbert
The Spear - by James Herbert
Audrey Rose - by Frank De Felitta
Ratman's Notebooks - by Stephen Gilbert
Carmilla (novella) - by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
The Dark is Rising - by Susan Cooper
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