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

Deadly Animals
The Estate
She's Always Hungry: Stories
Ushers
Darkly
I Am the Dark That Answers When You Call (I Feed Her to the Beast, #2)
The Dead of Winter: Beware the Krampus and Other Wicked Christmas Creatures
The Whispering Night (The Luminaries, #3)
Streetlight People
Perfect Girl
Revenant-X (Red Space, #2)
Dead Girls Don't Dream
Monstress, Volume 9: The Possessed
Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 8
The Skin You're In: A Collection of Horror Comics
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    The Locked Door
    One by One
    One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)
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    Hidden Pictures
    Home Is Where the Bodies Are
    The Last One at the Wedding
    You Shouldn't Have Come Here
    Ushers
    Middle of the Night
    The Last Party
    If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
    Five Survive
    That's Not My Name
    World War Z by Max BrooksZombie Fallout by Mark TufoFeed by Mira GrantA Plague Upon Your Family by Mark TufoThe End by Mark Tufo
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    The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsHarry Potter Series Box Set by J.K. RowlingMockingjay by Suzanne CollinsA Story of Yesterday by Sergio Cobo
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    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
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    Escaping Reality by Lisa Renee JonesThe 5th Wave by Rick YanceyReal by Katy EvansBranded by Abi KetnerThe Law of Attraction by N.M. Silber
    New Series (2013)
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    Carrie
    The Haunting of Hill House
    Pet Sematary
    Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
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    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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