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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

Most Read This Week Tagged "Horror"

This Book Is Full of Spiders (John Dies at the End, #2)

The Dark and Hollow Places (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #3)

This Dark Endeavor (The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein, #1)

The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

The Walking Dead, Vol. 4: The Heart's Desire

The Walking Dead, Vol. 18: What Comes After

Alice in Zombieland (The White Rabbit Chronicles, #1)

The Wind Through the Keyhole (The Dark Tower, #4.5)

The Monstrumologist (The Monstrumologist, #1)

Necessary Evil (The Milkweed Triptych, #3)

The Madman's Daughter (The Madman's Daughter, #1)

Locke and Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft

The Dead-Tossed Waves (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #2)

On Demon Wings (Experiment in Terror, #5)

The Walking Dead, Vol. 17: Something to Fear

Bad Girls Don't Die (Bad Girls Don't Die, #1)

Odd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure

The Dex-Files (Experiment in Terror, #5.7)

And With Madness Comes the Light (Experiment in Terror, #6.5)

The Night Eternal (The Strain Trilogy, #3)

The Walking Dead, Vol. 10: What We Become

The Forest of Hands and Teeth (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #1)

Dance of the Red Death (Masque of the Red Death, #2)

Into the Hollow (Experiment in Terror, #6)

Dead Sky Morning (Experiment in Terror, #3)

I Am Not A Serial Killer (John Cleaver, #1)

From Bad to Cursed (Bad Girls Don't Die, #2)

The Walking Dead, Vol. 9: Here We Remain

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City of the Snakes (The City Trilogy, #3)

His Favorite Horror: The master of macabre shares his favorite works of terror just in time for his new noir fantasy, City of the Snakes.

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Quotes Tagged "Horror"

“Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”
― Stephen King

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