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

Fairy Tale
Thistlefoot
Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)
House of Hunger
We Spread
The Weight of Blood
Leech
The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror
The Vicious Circle
Motherthing
Eternally Yours
Ghost Eaters
Gallows Hill
One Dark Window
Silver Under Nightfall
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    The Devil Makes Three
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  • The Gathering Dark by Tori Bovalino
    The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror
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    A cemetery full of the restless dead. A town so wicked it has already burned twice, with the breath of the third fire looming. A rural, isolated bridg ...more
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  • The Nightmare Man by J.H. Markert
    The Nightmare Man

    Release date: Jan 10, 2023
    J.H. Markert weaves together a chilling tale of what happens when the monsters in our head seem to come to life.
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