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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The Salvage
If the Dead Belong Here
How to Fake a Haunting
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    Comancheria (The Hollow Frontier Book 1)
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    Release date: Oct 21, 2025
    Texas Ranger Buck Dallas was meant to die. Cursed by the Comanche witch doctor, Twisted Root, he falls with the sun and claws out of the dirt at dawn— ...more
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    Doppelgänger : The "Great Apostasy" Parts 2 & 3 (The opening of the seals! Book 4)

    Release date: Mar 25, 2025
    Doppelgänger challenges readers to consider whether warning signs could hide in the most mundane of places.
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    A relentless, horror-inducing psychological suspense for fans of The Push and Baby Teeth by New York Times bestselling author CG Drews.

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