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

A Box Full of Darkness
This House Will Feed
The Age of Calamities
I Will Kill Your Imaginary Friend for $200
Dead Fake (Bleak Haven, #1)
We Call Them Witches
A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing
A Slow and Secret Poison
Better the Devil
Monster in the Moonlight (Monster Hunter Mystery, #4)
Lost Girls of Hollow Lake
Night Terror (Bleak Haven, #2)
Sundown Girls
The Night Ship
The Regicide Report (Laundry Files, 14)
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    May the Dead Keep You
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    It Sleeps Below: A Cosmic Horror Novel

    Release date: Feb 24, 2026
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    A psychological horror about obsession, queer longing, and an unreliable narrator unraveling in NYC nightlife. Dark, intimate, and disturbing.
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