User blog comment:Subjectshadow666/what is this becoming/@comment-25052433-20140815050213/@comment-25052433-20140815173420

Dark Tower would probably be a western/sci-fi if it had to be classified. Shawshank wasn't horror, but I suppose, as stated below, you'd still find it in your horror section simply because King wrote it.

Rose Madder, The Girl that loved Tom Gordon, Bag of Bones and The Body (which became the movie Stand by Me) are all amazing stories, yet I wouldn't really call them traditional horror.

I guess my point in all of this is that quality work will speak for itself. While none of the books mentioned above were really meant to make the reader jump, they all were able to conjure emotional responses from the readers, which is the ultimate goal.