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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King Sorrow
The Haunting of Paynes Hollow
The Women of Wild Hill
Bog Queen
The Graceview Patient
The Hong Kong Widow
Crafting for Sinners
Tom's Crossing
Colin Gets Promoted and Dooms the World
The Last Witch
The Salvage
If the Dead Belong Here
How to Fake a Haunting
  • The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer
    The Caretaker
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    Release date: Apr 21, 2026
    From Marcus Kliewer, a new “titan of the macabre and unsettling” (Erin A. Craig, #1 New York Times bestselling author), comes a supernatural horror ab ...more
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  • Those Quaint Early Writings by M. Price
    Those Quaint Early Writings
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    Release date: Oct 01, 2025
    This is a screenplay collection of horror, satire, and quixotic adventures that fans of M. Price have come to know and love (kinda).
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  • The Villa, Once Beloved by Victor Manibo
    The Villa, Once Beloved
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    Release date: Nov 25, 2025
    “Manibo is the kind of writer who knows what's forever: the gothic, the triumph of queers, the family fable.” —Meg Elison, author of The Pill
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