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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Not Quite a Ghost
Fallen Thorns
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    Lone Women

    Release date: Feb 06, 2024
    Blue skies, empty land—and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past, a mysterious trunk, a town on the edge of nowhere, ...more
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  • The House of Last Resort by Christopher Golden
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    Release date: Jan 30, 2024
    The next high concept horror novel from NYT bestselling author Christopher Golden.

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