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.

The Boy on the Bridge
Gwendy's Button Box
Dreamfall (Dreamfall #1)
Roses of May (The Collector #2)
Spill Zone
House of Furies (House of Furies, #1)
River of Teeth
Black Mad Wheel
Living with the Dead (The Famished Trilogy, #3)
Dark Cities
Alice: The Wanderland Chronicles
Quinsey Wolfe's Glass Vault (Glass Vault, #1)
Harrow County, Vol. 5: Abandoned
Sweetlings
終わりのセラフ 14 [Owari no Serafu 14] (Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign, #14)

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    Silent Child
    Roses of May (The Collector #2)
    The Butterfly Garden
    In a Dark, Dark Wood
    The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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    The Grownup
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    It
    Dracula
    Carrie
    The Stand
    Frankenstein
    Pet Sematary
    Misery
    World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
    Cujo
    Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2)
    House of Leaves
    Cell
    Night Shift
    Horns

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    Scott Turow is the author of ten bestselling works of fiction, including IDENTICAL, INNOCENT, PRESUMED INNOCENT, and THE BURDEN OF PROOF, and two nonfiction books, including ONE L, about his experience as a law student. His books have been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, and have been adapted into movies and television projects. He has frequently contributed essays and op-ed pieces to publications such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic.

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