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. ...more

House of Hollow
The Drowning Kind
Blessed Monsters (Something Dark and Holy, #3)
The Mary Shelley Club
Near the Bone
Whisper Down the Lane
The Helm of Midnight (The Five Penalties, #1)
Mina and the Undead
Remedy
Poison Priestess (Lady Slayers, #2)
Sixteen Horses
Gideon Falls, Vol. 6: The End
Composite Creatures
とつくにの少女 11 [Totsukuni no shōjo 11]
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vol. 5: The Biggest Bad
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    Release date: Mar 30, 2021
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    Wearing Shadows (Wearing Horror #2)
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    Release date: May 29, 2021
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    The Moonlight Child
    The Other Emily
    Mexican Gothic
    Leave the World Behind
    If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
    Bacchanal
    A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)
    House of Hollow
    In the Heart of the Fire (Nameless #1)
    When No One is Watching
    Home Before Dark
    Ninth House (Alex Stern #1)
    No Exit
    Unspeakable Things
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    The Stand
    The Haunting of Hill House
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    World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
    Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
    Doctor Sleep
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