It's spooky season! Whether you love the feeling of being scared or you prefer to read scary stories with all the lights on, this blog post has got you covered with all things horror.
Horror is a genre of fiction that sets out to frighten the reader. These works tend to create an eerie or frightening mood for the reader. You can further divide the genre of horror into subgenres such as psychological horror and supernatural. Common themes found in works of horror include ghosts, vampires, witches, monsters, apocalyptic worlds, serial killers, and dark magic.
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Adult Fiction:
- House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- It by Stephen King
- Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
- Bird Box by Josh Malerman
- The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
- The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
- Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
- Doll Bones by Holly Black
- I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga
- The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White
- Rot and Ruin by Jonathan Maberry
- A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Children's Fiction:
- Coraline by Neil Gaiman
- Night of the Living Dummy by R.L. Stine
- The Witches by Roald Dahl
- The House with a Clock in its Walls by John Bellairs
- Scary Stories for Young Foxes by Christina McKay Heidicker
- The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste
- Small Spaces by Katherine Arden
- Bunnicula by Deborah Howe and James Howe
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