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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Ordinary Monsters
Juniper & Thorn
Our Crooked Hearts
Hell Followed With Us
Aurora
The Ballad of Perilous Graves
Not Good for Maidens
Patricia Wants to Cuddle
Never Coming Home
Garden of Earthly Bodies
Go Hunt Me
From Below
Katzenjammer
Beneath Cruel Waters
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