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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From Below
Garden of Earthly Bodies
Go Hunt Me
Katzenjammer
The Clackity
We Can Never Leave This Place
Death Warrant
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    Release date: Jul 26, 2022
    Horror manga legend Junji Ito beckons readers to join him in an experience of ultimate terror with four transcendently terrifying tales.
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