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.

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Gwendy's Button Box
Dreamfall (Dreamfall #1)
Spill Zone
House of Furies (House of Furies, #1)
Spectacle (Menagerie, #2)
River of Teeth
Black Mad Wheel
Living with the Dead (The Famished Trilogy, #3)
Dark Cities
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Sweetlings

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