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

Horror Movie
The Eyes Are the Best Part
Two Sides to Every Murder
Incidents Around the House
One of Our Kind
We Used to Live Here
Private Rites
That Night in the Library
youthjuice
Secrets of Rose Briar Hall
Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil
Daughter of Calamity
We Shall Be Monsters (We Shall be Monsters, #1)
Brat
How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive
  • The Twin Sister by Paige Dearth
    The Twin Sister (Raven Ledger Duet, #2)
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    Release date: Jul 25, 2024
    A high school shooting. An unforgiving community. Someone has to pay.

    Raven Ledger is running from people who blame her for her brother’s crime. The ci
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  • Slice by Angie Caedis
    Slice
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    Release date: Sep 08, 2023
    Looking for a dramatic beach read? If you like characters you love to hate, friend group drama, and slasher vibes... this is for you.
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  • The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim
    The Eyes Are the Best Part
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    Release date: Jun 25, 2024
    “Obsessive, grotesque, and never predictable, this is a horror debut to sink your teeth into.” —Emily M. Danforth, bestselling author

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  • Never Lie
    The Locked Door
    One by One
    Ward D
    Home Is Where the Bodies Are
    One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)
    Two Twisted Crowns (The Shepherd King, #2)
    Hidden Pictures
    Middle of the Night
    You Shouldn't Have Come Here
    Five Survive
    Ask for Andrea
    100% Match (Uncommon Souls)
    If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
    Keep It in the Family
    World War Z by Max BrooksThe Zombie Survival Guide by Max BrooksThe Walking Dead, Vol. 1 by Robert KirkmanFeed by Mira GrantPride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith
    Zombies!
    1,634 books — 4,340 voters
    The Fault in Our Stars by John GreenDivergent by Veronica RothAllegiant by Veronica RothInsurgent by Veronica RothThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
    What we've read so far in...2014
    9,406 books — 2,097 voters

    The Name of the Wind by Patrick RothfussThe Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick RothfussThe Final Empire by Brandon SandersonThe Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott LynchThe Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
    New Speculative Fiction Stars
    1,109 books — 2,804 voters
    Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare BlakeBad Girls Don't Die by Katie AlenderMiss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom RiggsThe Ghost Files by Apryl BakerThe Ghost Files 2 by Apryl Baker
    Best Teen Horror/Suspense/Thriller
    863 books — 1,759 voters


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    It
    Dracula
    Carrie
    Pet Sematary
    The Haunting of Hill House
    Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
    ’Salem’s Lot
    Misery
    The Stand
    Mexican Gothic
    House of Leaves
    We Have Always Lived in the Castle
    Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
    Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2)

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