The Big Books of Summer 2025
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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

New Releases Tagged "Horror"

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
Sister, Butcher, Sister
Meet Me at the Crossroads
Of Monsters and Mainframes
A Girl Walks Into the Forest
We Can Never Leave
Glass Girls
Ecstasy
Smile for the Cameras
Bad Creek
If We Survive This
Best of All Worlds
The House on Buzzards Bay
Kill Creatures
It's Not the End of the World
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    Quotes Tagged “Horror”

    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “ There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand. ”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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    Stephen King
    “ We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones. ”
    ― Stephen King
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    Videos Tagged “Horror”

    Stephen King & American Express (commercial)
    Stephen King & American Express (commercial)
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    Thing in the Shed teaser trailer
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    Groups Tagged "Horror"

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