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

Don't Let the Forest In
The Bog Wife
Killer House Party
The Book of Witching
This Cursed House
If I Stopped Haunting You
Absolution (Southern Reach, #4)
Model Home
I'll Be Waiting
Strange Beasts
Memorials
American Rapture
Exposure (Rita Todacheene, #2)
The Specimen
Feast While You Can
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  • Where I End by Sophie White
    Where I End

    Release date: Sep 24, 2024
    "Exquisite and disturbing, both brutish and beautifully crafted.” —The Irish Times
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    Ushers: A Short Story
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    The Last Party
    Home Before Dark
    That's Not My Name
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