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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What Moves the Dead
The Pallbearers Club
Just Like Home
Night of the Living Rez
Youngblood
Wake the Bones
They Drown Our Daughters
The Liminal Zone
The Ruins
Mary: An Awakening of Terror
Hawk Mountain
Old Country
Blackwater
Vicious Creatures
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