Horror fiction

Horror fiction or just horror is fiction that is meant to frighten the reader. There are many different kinds of horror. Some of it deals with the Supernatural, like ghosts and monsters, while other kinds are about scary things in the real world like serial killers.

Horror Fiction Media

An Illustration of Poe's "The Raven" by Gustave Doré
"Athenodorus confronts the Spectre". Illustrating a story told by Pliny the Younger about the Greek Stoic philosopher Athenodorus who rented a haunted house. Engraving by Henry Justice Ford, from The Strange Story Book by Leonora Blanche Lang; Andrew Lang.
Vlad III "The Impaler", the inspiration for Count Dracula.
Horace Walpole wrote the first Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764), initiating a new literary genre.
Mary Shelley by Richard Rothwell (1840–41)
Stephen King, American author best known for his enormously popular horror novels. King was the 2003 recipient of The National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Taken at the 2007 New York Comicon.

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