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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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Blood on Her Tongue
They Bloom at Night
Stag Dance
Gothictown
Serial Killer Support Group
I Am Made of Death
Nowhere
When the Bones Sing
The Third Rule of Time Travel
The Haunting of Room 904
O Sinners!
Shy Girl
Vanishing Daughters
The Night Birds
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