Fiction: HORROR - READS Collection: Fiction Genres, Biographies, Graphic Novels, & New Titles - SVC Library at Skagit Valley College

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What is Horror?

Horror is a type of fiction genre (literary categories of fiction) that aims to shock, scare, or disturb the audience.

Follow this link to view a list of Horror Titles

Some Examples of Horror books in the Library - click cover to view

Tan book covver with a semi-truck.

Gray and black book cover with a girl dressed in a blue ball gown and a blue grown holding a white rabbit.

Dark blue cover with a young woman drowning on the upper right hand corner.

Lime green book cover with the silhouette of a stroller in the center.

Brown and gray cover with a dead tree by the banks of a drying river.

Red and black cover with a repeating silhoutte of a child and a man.

Black cover with a coffin-like window revealing zombies in the mists.

Green book cover with a sunken building and a woman swimming.

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