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

Something in the Walls
Listen to Your Sister
Hungerstone
The Lamb
Grave Empire (The Great Silence, #1)
Idle Grounds
Voice Like a Hyacinth
These Vengeful Wishes
The Spirit Collection of Thorne Hall
Beta Vulgaris
The Poorly Made and Other Things
Shroud
The Underwood Tapes
The Ghosts of Bitterfly Bay
The Vengeful Dead (Gravekeeper, #5)
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    Raised by a Killer: Extreme Horror—The Complete Series
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    Survive the Night: A Killer Coloring Adventure

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    Ward D
    One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)
    One by One
    Don't Let Her Stay
    Hidden Pictures
    That's Not My Name
    The Last One at the Wedding
    Home Is Where the Bodies Are
    Keep It in the Family
    You Shouldn't Have Come Here
    Five Survive
    Middle of the Night
    Fairy Tale
    Tell Me What You Did
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