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

An Academy for Liars
So Thirsty
Sleep Tight
Graveyard Shift
This Girl's a Killer
The Hitchcock Hotel
William
The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society
The Thirteenth Child
Lucy Undying
We Kept Her in the Cellar
The Haunting of Moscow House
Dearest
Haunt Sweet Home
We Came to Welcome You
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    Hidden Pictures
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