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Horror

Horror fiction is a genre of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural. The genre has ancient origins which were reformulated in the eighteenth century as Gothic horror, with publication of the Castle of Otranto (1764) by Horace Walpole.

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Horror

Horror non-fiction

Horror fiction

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Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's monster from The Bride of Frankenstein. A common modern depcition of the monster.

Cults

Cursed and enchanted objects

Clothes
Cutlery
Mirrors
Paintings

Cosmic horror

Cryptids and strange creatures

Demons

Ghost stories

Gothic fiction

Mad science

Mummies

Murderers

Nature

Malevolent aspects of nature (including animals and plants) and nature running amok. Includes spirits or forces of nature.

Sea monsters

Undead

Not including stories of vampires, mummies or others listed in separate sections

Vampires

Werewolves

Witchcraft, curses and magic

Horror poetry

Horror authors

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Edgar Allan Poe

See also

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