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

Only a Monster (Monsters, #1)
Dead Silence
These Deadly Games
A Lullaby for Witches
Cherish Farrah
Beneath the Stairs
The Violence
Extasia
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
Manhunt
The Reign of Osiris (Ramses the Damned, #3)
The Book of the Most Precious Substance
Gwendy's Final Task (The Button Box, #3)
Mirror Girls
The Supernatural Society
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    If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
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    A History of Wild Places
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