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.

The Hiding Place
Spectacle
Suspicious Minds (Stranger Things #1)
Drop Dead Gorgeous
The Owls Have Come to Take Us Away
Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones
The Rising: The Newsflesh Trilogy
More Walls Broken
Envy (Sins of Seven #6)
The Very Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan
Rag: Stories
Queen
Black Wings
The Worst Is Yet to Come
More Deadly than the Male: Masterpieces from the Queens of Horror
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    Charles Baudelaire
    “ The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance; We find delight in the most loathsome things; Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings, And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance. ”
    ― Charles Baudelaire

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    “ I do not love men: I love what devours them. ”
    ― André Gide, Prometheus Illbound

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