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

Vampires of El Norte
Mister Magic
Looking Glass Sound
Thornhedge
Whalefall
Together We Rot
The Handyman Method
Delicate Condition
I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me
A Multitude of Dreams
Secrets Never Die
The Last Girls Standing
Night of the Living Queers: 13 Tales of Terror Delight
Fever House (Fever House #1)
The Narrow
  • Monsters on the Couch by Brian A. Sharpless
    Monsters on the Couch: The Real Psychological Disorders Behind Your Favorite Horror Movies

    Release date: Oct 03, 2023
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  • The Chronomancer and the Book of Worms by Jason Harrington
    The Chronomancer and the Book of Worms (Destiny of the Void Triangle #1)
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    Ward D
    The Only One Left
    One by One
    You Shouldn't Have Come Here
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    Just Stay Away
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    Daisy Darker
    One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)
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