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

Murder Road
We Ate the Dark
The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)
Diavola
Fruit of the Dead
The Devil and Mrs. Davenport
The Haunting of Velkwood
Rainbow Black
The Invisible Hotel
What Grows in the Dark
The Woods All Black
Stitches
Dead Girls Walking
Clever Creatures of the Night
Lost Man's Lane
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