Horror genres

subgenre of action-adventure video games

genre of fiction

subgenre of fantasy

shared fictional universe based on the work of H. P. Lovecraft

Kaiju (from , ), or giant movie monster, are terms used in film and media for monsters, and the like, of enormous size, mainly belonging to a designated genre, known as kaiju movies, or giant monster movies, where they are usually depicted attacking major cities, and battling either the military or other creatures, mixing creature features with the disaster film genre, but also often involving science fiction. Examples include famous movie monsters like King Kong, Godzilla and Gamera, cult classics like The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, It Came from Beneath the Sea, Them!

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thumb|upright=1.3|Letícia Román in The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963), considered by most critics to be the first film

genre of fiction

subgenre of horror fiction

subgenre of speculative fiction originating in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

genre of fiction featuring supernatural elements

subgenre of horror that showcases graphic or psychologically disturbing violations of the human body

fiction genre that blends elements of horror and comedy

subgenre of horror film

subgenre of horror fiction

subgenre of horror

cross-media genre or theme of fiction that combines horror and sometimes romance with an aesthetic of fear, death and haunting

upright=1.4|thumb|Danse Macabre|Totentanz ("Dance of the Dead"), illustration from the [[Nuremberg Chronicle, by Hartmann Schedel (1440–1514)]] thumb|A death head wearing the Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire, on the sarcophagus of Habsburg emperor Charles VI in the [[crypt of the Capuchin]] thumb|Upper section of the Cadaver Tomb of René of Chalon|Transi of René de Chalon. Sculpture by [[Ligier Richier, ]]

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

Fantastique is a French term for a literary and cinematic genre and mode that is characterized by the intrusion of supernatural elements into the realistic framework of a story, accompanied by uncertainty about their existence. The concept comes from the French literary and critical tradition, and is distinguished from the word "fantastic", which is associated with the broader term of fantasy in the English literary tradition. According to the literary theorist Tzvetan Todorov (Introduction à la littérature fantastique), the fantastique is distinguished from the marvellous by the hesitation it

genre of fiction and film

story published in weekly parts, each costing one penny

erotic subgenre, horror subgenre

subgenre of horror fiction

film and television genre

literary genre

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 and cinematic genre of horror

genre of fiction that refers to the idea that there are certain phenomena that are outside the realm of scientific understanding but could potentially be explained by science one day