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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We Love You, Bunny (Bunny, #2)
Hot Wax
Bad Things Happened in This Room
You Weren't Meant to Be Human
A Land So Wide
The Maiden and Her Monster
The October Film Haunt
What Stalks the Deep (Sworn Soldier, #3)
Coffin Moon
No Rest for the Wicked
The Mad Wife
House of Hearts
Spread Me
Widow's Point: The Complete Haunting
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