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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I Will Kill Your Imaginary Friend for $200
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A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing
A Slow and Secret Poison: A Novel
Better the Devil
Lost Girls of Hollow Lake
Sundown Girls
The Night Ship
The Regicide Report (Laundry Files, 14)
I, in the Shadows
Rick Riordan Presents: It Lurks in the Night
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