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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The Centre
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Their Vicious Games
A Good House for Children
Cutting Teeth
The Beast You Are: Stories
Dead of Winter
Camp Damascus
The Woods Are Waiting
Sucker
Boys in the Valley
The Militia House
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