Horror

Horror fiction is fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle, or horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the "horror" experience has often been the intrusion of a supernatural element into everyday human experience. Since the 1960s, any work of fiction with a morbid, gruesome, surreal, or exceptionally suspenseful or frightening theme has come to be called "horror". Horror fiction often overlaps science fiction or fantasy, all three of which categories are sometimes placed under the umbrella classification speculative fiction.

Stalking Jack the Ripper (Stalking Jack the Ripper, #1)
As I Descended
And the Trees Crept In
The Creeping Shadow (Lockwood & Co., #4)
The Women in the Walls
A Taste for Monsters
The Family Plot
The Sinner (Graveyard Queen, #5)
The Peculiar Night of the Blue Heart
Dead Souls: A Novel
We Eat Our Own
The Walking Dead, Vol. 26: Call to Arms
Mostly Void, Partially Stars (Welcome to Night Vale Episodes, #1)
The Dead Boyfriend (Fear Street Relaunch, #5)
The Fall of the House of Cabal (Johannes Cabal, #5)

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    The Shining (The Shining, #1)
    It
    Dracula
    Carrie
    The Stand
    Frankenstein
    Pet Sematary
    Misery
    World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
    Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2)
    Cell
    House of Leaves
    Night Shift
    Firestarter
    Horns


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    His Favorite Ghost Stories: The craftsman of creepy shares his favorite ghost stories in honor of his new thriller, What the Night Knows, about a rampaging killer who reawakens from the dead.
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “ I have seen the dark universe yawning Where the black planets roll without aim, Where they roll in their horror unheeded, Without knowledge, or lustre, or name. ”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, Nemesis

    Clive Barker
    “ [Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion. ”
    ― Clive Barker

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