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.

Bad Man
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Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present
The Truth Lies Here
Hunted
The Dark Beneath the Ice
Neverwake (Dreamfall #2)
The Saturday Night Ghost Club
進撃の巨人 26 [Shingeki no Kyojin 26] (Attack on Titan, #26)
Alternate Routes
The Monster Museum (Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper #10)
Scream Site
Jughead: The Hunger, Vol. 1
The Ghost of Slappy (Goosebumps Slappyworld, #6)
Hellboy: The Complete Short Stories Volume 2
  • The Hiding Place by C.J. Tudor
    The Hiding Place
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    Release date: Feb 05, 2019
    The worst moment of his life wasn't the day his sister went missing. It was the day she came back . . .

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  • Brief, Horrible Moments by Marko Pandza
    Brief, Horrible Moments: A Collection of One Sentence Horror Stories
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    Release date: Jan 14, 2017
    Chill your bones with two hundred and forty two horror stories, one sentence at a time.

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  • Limbo. by Marko Pandza
    Limbo.
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    Release date: May 18, 2016
    This is the story of Grim the Reaper.

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    The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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    The Retreat
    The Last Time I Lied
    Stillhouse Lake (Stillhouse Lake, #1)
    The Grownup
    The Summer Children (The Collector, #3)
    Lies That Bind Us
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    Carrie
    'Salem's Lot
    The Stand
    Frankenstein
    Pet Sematary
    Misery
    World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
    Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
    The Haunting of Hill House
    Cujo
    Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2)
    Needful Things

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    Shirley Jackson
    “ No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone ...more ”
    ― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

    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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