Horror story
A horror story is a story made to scare people. It is like a horror movie but in a book or told by others.
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An Illustration of Poe's "The Raven" by Gustave Doré
Horace Walpole wrote the first Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764), initiating a new literary genre.
Mary Shelley by Richard Rothwell (1840–41)