Horror fiction

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film genre

thumb|A polemical allegory represented as a five-headed monster, 1618 A monster is a type of imaginary or fictional creature found in literature, folklore, mythology, horror, fantasy, fiction and religion. They are very often depicted as dangerous and aggressive, with a strange or grotesque appearance that causes terror and fear, often in humans. Monsters usually resemble bizarre, deformed, otherworldly and/or mutated animals or entirely unique creatures of varying sizes, but may also take a human form, such as mutants, ghosts, spirits, vampires or zombies, among other things. They may or may

genre of fiction

artistic motif on the universality of death

subgenre of action-adventure video games

subgenre of fantasy

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second season of American Horror Story

subgenre of horror fiction

American collector of science fiction books and movie memorabilia (1916-2008)

theatre in the Pigalle area of Paris

stock character; "last girl standing" in a horror film

romanticism sub-genre

1991 horror novel by Koji Suzuki

genre of fiction, that refers to phenomena that are forever outside the realm of scientific explanation, such as god, the afterlife, and the soul

Splatterpunk is a movement within horror fiction originating in the 1980s, distinguished by its graphic, often gory, depiction of violence, countercultural alignment and "hyperintensive horror with no limits." The term was coined in 1986 by David J. Schow at the Twelfth World Fantasy Convention in Providence, Rhode Island. Splatterpunk is regarded as a revolt against the "traditional, meekly suggestive horror story". Splatterpunk has been defined as a "literary genre characterised by graphically described scenes of an extremely gory nature."

literary genre

song composed by Jerry Goldsmith

creepypasta

miniature wargame

1998 novel by Koji Suzuki

1999 Japanese television drama

tale told in folklore to warn its listener of a danger

Literature genre

2000 video game