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.

The Call
Six Scary Stories
The Telling
Wax
Three Truths and a Lie
Invasive
Infinite Risk (Immortal Game, #3)
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe
進撃の巨人 20 [Shingeki no Kyojin 20] (Attack on Titan, #20)
I Am Providence
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Vol. 1: The Crucible
Pretty Deadly, Vol. 2: The Bear
The Dark World
American Monsters (Demon Road, #3)
The Empty Ones (Vicious Circuit, #2)

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  • The Butterfly Garden
    Hollow City (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, #2)
    In a Dark, Dark Wood
    Library of Souls (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #3)
    The Girl with All the Gifts
    Follow You Home
    End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #3)
    The Ocean at the End of the Lane
    The Grownup
    Three Dark Crowns (Three Dark Crowns, #1)
    The Magpies
    The City of Mirrors (The Passage, #3)
    Because She Loves Me
    11/22/63
    The Last Town (Wayward Pines, #3)
    The Shining (The Shining, #1)
    It
    Dracula
    Carrie
    The Stand
    Pet Sematary
    Misery
    World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
    Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2)
    Cell
    House of Leaves
    Night Shift
    Firestarter
    Horns
    Let the Right One In


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    I have seen the dark universe yawning Where the black planets roll without aim, Where they roll in their horror unheeded, Without knowledge, or lustre, or name.
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