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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She Is a Haunting
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The Angel Maker
A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
On the Savage Side
Delicious Monsters
The Crane Husband
The Spite House
Where Darkness Blooms
Sister, Maiden, Monster
Such Pretty Flowers
Missing Dead Girls
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The Destroyer of Worlds (Lovecraft Country #2)
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