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

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Summer Sons
White Smoke
No Gods, No Monsters (The Convergence Saga, #1)
All These Bodies
The Lighthouse Witches
Lakesedge (World at the Lake's Edge, #1)
The Lost Girls
The Corpse Queen
To Break a Covenant
The House of Ashes
The Girls Are Never Gone
Horseman: A Tale of Sleepy Hollow
Small Town Monsters
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