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

The Chateau
The Salt Grows Heavy
Beware the Woman
Four Found Dead
Our Hideous Progeny
Cicadas Sing of Summer Graves
All the Dead Lie Down
Graveyard of Lost Children
We'll Never Tell
Court of the Undying Seasons
We Don't Swim Here
The Alchemy of Moonlight
Silent Came the Monster: A Novel of the 1916 Jersey Shore Shark Attacks
I'm Not Supposed to Be in the Dark
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