r/horrorlit
The Best Horror Literature and the Worst
Founded August 2012 · Public — anyone can post
This is a place to discuss horror literature. Any book is up for discussion as long as that discussion is respectful. It doesn't matter if you're into Stephen King, Octavia Butler, Jack Ketchum or Shirley Jackson, this is the place to share that love and discuss to your heart's content.
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627,957
628K
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Growth · 7d
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Growth · 30d
+1.6%
+10K members · ≈37d
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Tracking since Aug 19 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.
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r/horrorlit — frequently asked
How many members does r/horrorlit have?
r/horrorlit has 627,957 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 25. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.
Is r/horrorlit growing?
Over the last ≈37 days r/horrorlit changed by +1.6% — a gain of 10K members. We compare against the nearest snapshot we actually hold and state the real span rather than rounding it to a clean "30 days".
How active is r/horrorlit?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/horrorlit yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.
When was r/horrorlit created?
r/horrorlit was founded in August 2012 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.
Can I promote my product in r/horrorlit?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/horrorlit yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.
How do I monitor r/horrorlit for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/horrorlit into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.
Can my AI agent read r/horrorlit's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/horrorlit's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
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