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 Arcane Inheritance
Dark Sisters
Cape Fever
Twin Tides
光が死んだ夏 8 [Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu 8]
Alien: Cult
Something is Killing the Children #45
Snake-Eater
The Place Where They Buried Your Heart
The Forest of Missing Girls
I'll Make a Spectacle of You
The Great Work
We're Not Safe Here
Girls Who Play Dead
The Villa, Once Beloved
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    The Caretaker
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    Release date: Apr 21, 2026
    Follow the Rites...

    Nothing less than the survival of humanity is at stake.


    From Marcus Kliewer, a new “titan of the macabre and unsettling” (Erin A. Cr
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    Number of copies: 100

    Giveaway dates: Dec 10 - Jan 08, 2026

    Countries available: U.S.

  • Villain Hitting for Vicious Little Nobodies by Lindsay Wong
    Villain Hitting for Vicious Little Nobodies

    Release date: Jan 03, 2026
    We're giving away 10 finished copies of Lindsay Wong's new book, Villian Hitting for Vicious Little Nobodies! ...more
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    Giveaway dates: Dec 15 - Jan 09, 2026

    Countries available: Canada

  • This House Will Feed by Maria Tureaud
    This House Will Feed
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    Release date: Jan 27, 2026
    “A gripping, multilayered tale of vengeance set against the backdrop of one of the worst genocides in human history." - Paulette Kennedy, author
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    That's Not My Name
    One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)
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    You Shouldn't Have Come Here
    Best Offer Wins
    Home Is Where the Bodies Are
    Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
    Five Survive
    The Last One at the Wedding
    Such Quiet Girls
    The Mad Wife
    Remain
    Keep It in the Family
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    Vampires and Werewolves and Witches...Oh My!
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    World War Z by Max BrooksZombie Fallout by Mark TufoFeed by Mira GrantA Plague Upon Your Family by Mark TufoThe End by Mark Tufo
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    The Haunting of Hill House
    Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
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    ’Salem’s Lot
    Misery
    The Stand
    Mexican Gothic
    House of Leaves
    We Have Always Lived in the Castle
    Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
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