Draft:Outline of horror fiction
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to horror fiction:
Horror is a genre of speculative fiction that is intended to disturb, frighten, or scare. Horror is often divided into the sub-genres of psychological horror and supernatural horror, which are in the realm of speculative fiction. Literary historian J. A. Cuddon, in 1984, defined the horror story as "a piece of fiction in prose of variable length ... which shocks, or even frightens the reader, or perhaps induces a feeling of repulsion or loathing". Horror intends to create an eerie and frightening atmosphere for the reader. Often the central menace of a work of horror fiction can be interpreted as a metaphor for larger fears of a society.
Forms of horror fiction
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[edit]Subgenres of horror
[edit]- Body horror
- Bollywood horror films (film)
- Cannibal (film)
- Chinese (film)
- Comedy
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- Black comedy (sometimes)
- Zombie comedy
- Cosmic
- Dark fantasy
- Dark romanticism
- Eco (film)
- Ero guro
- Erotic
- Found footage (film)
- German underground (film)
- Ghost
- Gothic
- Hixploitation (film)
- Japanese
- Korean (film)
- Lovecraftian
- Monsters
- Natural (film)
- Occult detective
- Organ transplantation
- Psychological
- Religious (film)
- Satanic (film)
- Sci-fi (film)
- Slasher (film)
- Splatter/gore (film)
- Splatterpunk
- Survival
- Weird fiction
- Weird menace
- Weird West
- Zombie apocalypse
History of horror fiction
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References
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Horror fiction at Wikipedia's sister projects
Definitions from Wiktionary
Media from Commons
News from Wikinews
Quotations from Wikiquote
Texts from Wikisource
Textbooks from Wikibooks
Resources from Wikiversity
- Horror Writers Association – Organization dedicated to promoting horror literature and its authors.
- Nightmare Magazine – A monthly publication of horror and dark fantasy fiction.
- Shock Till You Drop – Website focusing on horror movies, news, and reviews.
- Fangoria – Magazine and website dedicated to horror films, television, and culture.
- Horror News Network – Source for news, reviews, and interviews in the horror genre.
- iHorror – Online source for horror news, reviews, and interviews with filmmakers and authors.