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

Don't Let the Forest In
The Bog Wife
Killer House Party
The Book of Witching
This Cursed House
If I Stopped Haunting You
Absolution (Southern Reach, #4)
Model Home
Strange Beasts
I'll Be Waiting
Memorials
American Rapture
American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond
Exposure (Rita Todacheene, #2)
The Specimen
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    One by One
    Ward D
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    The Last One at the Wedding
    Home Is Where the Bodies Are
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    Middle of the Night
    That's Not My Name
    The Last Party
    Home Before Dark
    Anathema
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    House of Leaves
    We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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