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Leisure Reading — Literature

Read it for the scare!

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.

     --Shirley Jackson

 

Couple with a young female spirit, ca. 1920, National Media Museum, Wikimedia Commons

Horror / Paranormal

Horror stories are designed to evoke fear, fascination, or revulsion in the reader. 

--The Book Genre Dictionary

Books in the paranormal fiction genre are set in the real world, but they include experiences that defy scientific explanation.

--The Book Genre Dictionary

Horror stories are designed to evoke fear, fascination, or revulsion in the reader. Books in the paranormal fiction genre are set in the real world, but they include experiences that defy scientific explanation.

--The Book Genre Dictionary