Horror

Horror (the Latin Word for terror) is the name for a genre of stories with the aim of the reader or spectator instill fear as a form of entertainment.

This can, for example, by anxious situations or creatures to enter the scene. These creatures can both fictional (vampires, ghosts) as genuine (serial killers) are. Under the genre include the horror story and the horror novel. The genre can be both in literature (books and novels) as horror films and television series are applied. An important element of horror is that the reader or Viewer to empathize with the situation of theprotagonist, whereby he or she feels the same fear and disgust. Another element is that there are often unexpected events occur (anti climax ).



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[hide] *1 History  ==History[ Edit] == Screenshot of Dracula, 1931The origin of horror in literature goes way back. It was particularly in vogue in the second half of the eighteenth century, with the German Schauerroman Räuber-and as prominent representatives, the English graveyard poems, and the gothic novel. One of the oldest horror is Horace Walpoles work The Castle of Otranto (1764). The genre experienced a revival in the 19th century by classic stories as Frankenstein and Dracula, but also the stories of Edgar Allan Poe. ==Subgenres[ Edit] == Horror has several subgenres such as:
 * 2 Subgenres
 * 3 Famous horror writers
 * 4 Horror topics
 * 4.1 Beings
 * 4.2 Situations
 * 4.3 dark forces and objects
 * 5 see also

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 * Historical horror: it plays the story's set in a (far) past
 * Psychological horror: it contains especially mental fears of the protagonist Central
 * Gothic novel: a genre that in the second half of the 18th century in England was founded
 * Clive Barker
 * Eddy C. Bertin
 * Wes Craven
 * Roald Dahl
 * Johan De Vera
 * James Herbert
 * Stephen King
 * Dean Koontz
 * Tim Krabbé
 * Paul van Loon
 * H.P. Lovecraft
 * Edgar Allan Poe
 * Darren Shan
 * Anthony Horowitz
 * Bram Stoker
 * Aliens (Martians, aliens)
 * People or animals, which seem possessed by the Devil, turn suddenly against their relatives or innocents. Sometimes acts there is a pattern as uncertainty, revenge, profit, eerbejag, ... as a possible explanation for the possessed behavior.
 * Samples (for example, the Monster of Frankenstein)
 * Killers and psychopaths
 * Ghosts and spirits
 * Vampires (for example, Dracula)
 * Werewolves
 * Zombies (living dead, seem, mummies)
 * Dark forces: where to take if restricted to a particular area, unexplained events whose sequence often acts as a guide for the story. Almost impossible, for example, natural phenomena (a stone rain), street lamps that will automatically begin to flicker. radio's or spontaneously enter into jukeboxes, furniture that itself swap places.
 * The intangible: a allesomvangende fog, darkness.