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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Indian Burial Ground
Ghost Station
The Gathering
Your Blood, My Bones
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Someone You Can Build a Nest In
Granite Harbor
The Garden
Off With Their Heads
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The Black Girl Survives in This One
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