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 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)
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The Monster Museum (Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper #10)
Scream Site
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Hellboy: The Complete Short Stories Volume 2
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    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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    Release date: May 18, 2016
    This is the story of Grim the Reaper.

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    “ You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you. ”
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    Isaac Asimov
    “ A number of years ago, when I was a freshly-appointed instructor, I met, for the first time, a certain eminent historian of science. At the time I could only regard him with tolerant condescension. I was sorry of the man who, it seemed to me, was forced to hover about the edges of science. He was compelled to shiver endlessly in the outskirts, getting only feeble warmth from the distant sun of science- in-progress; while I, just beginning my research, was bathed in the heady liquid heat up at th ...more ”
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