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.

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The Only Child
Nothing Left To Lose (John Cleaver, #6)
The Kill Society (Sandman Slim, #9)
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Mapping the Interior
Ballad for a Mad Girl
A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting (Babysitter's Guide to Monsters #1)
Painted
The Queen of Swords (Golgotha, #3)
Year's Best Hardcore Horror Volume 2
The Forgotten Girl
Providence Act 2
Deadman: Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love

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    Scott Turow is the author of ten bestselling works of fiction, including IDENTICAL, INNOCENT, PRESUMED INNOCENT, and THE BURDEN OF PROOF, and two nonfiction books, including ONE L, about his experience as a law student. His books have been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, and have been adapted into movies and television projects. He has frequently contributed essays and op-ed pieces to publications such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic.

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