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. Haunting is used as a plot device in horror fiction...more

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Unnatural Creatures
Stung
Pretty Dark Nothing (Pretty Dark Nothing, #1)
Who Was Dracula?: Bram Stoker's Trail of Blood
Dead River
Necessary Evil (The Milkweed Triptych, #3)
The Darkest Lullaby
Zom-B City (Zom-B, #3)
Limbus, Inc.
The Piper
Plague Nation
Faulkner's Apprentice
Girls & Monsters
Zombies Don't Forgive (Living Dead Love Story, #2)

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    Clive Barker
    Here is a list of terrible things, The jaws of sharks, a vultures wings The rabid bite of the dogs of war, The voice of one who went before, But most of all the mirror's gaze, Which counts us out our numbered days.
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