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.

Sleeping Beauties
There's Someone Inside Your House
Hunting Prince Dracula (Stalking Jack the Ripper, #2)
Black Bird of the Gallows
The Visitors
The Empty Grave (Lockwood & Co. #5)
Paperbacks from Hell: A History of Horror Fiction from the '70s and '80s
The Unquiet Grave
The Grave Keepers
The Ravenous
When I Cast Your Shadow
House of Ash
The Twilight Pariah
Cinderella, Necromancer
Wychwood

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    Gwendy's Button Box
    Don't Wake Up
    In a Dark, Dark Wood
    The Ocean at the End of the Lane
    All the Little Children
    The Grownup
    There's Someone Inside Your House
    The Girl with All the Gifts
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    The Stand
    Frankenstein
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    Cujo
    Doctor Sleep
    House of Leaves
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    Cell
    Night Shift
    Horns
    The Exorcist

    Darren Shan
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    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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