Genre: Horror

All fiction and excerpts in: Horror

Read an Excerpt From Malcolm Devlin’s And Then I Woke Up

Thu Mar 17, 2022 1:00pm

Horror || In a world reeling from an unusual plague, monsters lurk in the streets while terrified survivors arm themselves and roam the countryside in packs.

Read an Excerpt From Nightmare Fuel: The Science of Horror Movies

Thu Mar 10, 2022 2:00pm

Horror, Non-Fiction || Nina Nesseth knows what scares you. She also knows why.

Read an Excerpt From My Dearest Darkest

Kayla Cottingham

Wed Mar 9, 2022 2:00pm

Horror, Young Adult || Finch Chamberlin is the newest transfer student to the ultra-competitive Ulalume Academy… but she's also not what she seems.

Read an Excerpt From Lara Elena Donnelly’s Base Notes

Lara Elena Donnelly

Fri Jan 21, 2022 11:00am

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Horror, Thriller || In New York City everybody needs a side hustle, and perfumer Vic Fowler has developed a delicate art that has proved to be very lucrative: creating bespoke scents that evoke immersive memories…

Read the First Chapter from Gretchen Felker-Martin’s Manhunt

Gretchen Felker-Martin

Tue Dec 14, 2021 3:00pm

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Horror || Beth and Fran spend their days traveling the ravaged New England coast, hunting feral men and harvesting their organs in a gruesome effort to ensure they'll never face the same fate.

Read the Third Chapter of Cassandra Khaw’s Nothing But Blackened Teeth

Wed Oct 6, 2021 2:00pm

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Horror || A night of food, drinks, and games quickly spirals into a nightmare as secrets get dragged out and relationships are tested.

Read the Second Chapter of Cassandra Khaw’s Nothing But Blackened Teeth

Tue Oct 5, 2021 2:00pm

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Horror || A night of food, drinks, and games quickly spirals into a nightmare as secrets get dragged out and relationships are tested.

Read the First Chapter of Cassandra Khaw’s Nothing But Blackened Teeth

Mon Oct 4, 2021 2:00pm

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Horror || A night of food, drinks, and games quickly spirals into a nightmare as secrets get dragged out and relationships are tested.

Read an Excerpt From The Last House on Needless Street

Wed Jul 14, 2021 9:30am

Horror || In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three...

Read an Excerpt From Rivers Solomon’s Sorrowland

Thu May 6, 2021 11:00am

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Horror || Vern—seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised—flees for the shelter of the woods.

Read an Excerpt From Sam J. Miller’s The Blade Between

Mon Dec 7, 2020 2:00pm

Horror || A ghost story about a rapidly changing city in upstate New York and the mysterious forces that threaten it.

Read an Excerpt From We Hear Voices

Tue Dec 1, 2020 2:00pm

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Horror || A little boy recovers from a mysterious pandemic and inherits an imaginary friend who makes him do violent things...

Read “The Devil’s Reel” From the New Horror Anthology It Came From the Multiplex

Sean Eads and Joshua Viola

Thu Oct 29, 2020 3:00pm

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Read an Excerpt From Imaginary Friend

Stephen Chbosky

Fri Sep 27, 2019 11:00am

Horror || Christopher is seven years old. Christopher is the new kid in town. Christopher has an imaginary friend...

A Forest, or A Tree

Wed Jun 26, 2019 9:00am

Original Fiction

Edited by: Ellen Datlow

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Horror || Four young women go on a camping trip. Things slowly begin to go wrong.