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.

Plain Bad Heroines
The Hollow Places
Ring Shout
The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction
Eventide
Cardiff, by the Sea: Four Novellas of Suspense
Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Stories of Horror
The Dollhouse Family
The Traveller and Other Stories
Forget This Ever Happened
Don't Move
Dead Lies Dreaming (Dead Lies Dreaming #1)
Perish (Jack Harper Trilogy #2)
Daughters of Jubilation
The Night Will Find Us
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    The Haunting of Brynn Wilder
    A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)
    The Turn of the Key
    Elsewhere
    When No One is Watching
    Home Before Dark
    Devoted
    In the Heart of the Fire (Nameless #1)
    Photographing the Dead (Nameless #2)
    Ninth House (Alex Stern #1)
    The Whisper Man
    Red Rain (Nameless #4)
    Unspeakable Things
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    Pet Sematary
    Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
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    The Stand
    The Haunting of Hill House
    Misery
    World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
    Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
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