Horror fiction

Horror fiction or just horror is fiction (of any medium) that is meant to frighten the audience. 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 or diseases.

Horror Fiction Media

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  Count Dracula, a vampire who emigrates from Transylvania to England and preys upon the blood of living victims, poster of Dracula (1931)

• Athenodorus - The Greek Stoic Philosopher Athenodorus Rents a Haunted House.jpg

  An illustration of Andrew Lang's "Athenodorus confronts the Spectre"

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  Vlad the Impaler, the inspiration for Count Dracula.

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  Horace Walpole wrote the first Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764), initiating a new literary genre.

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  Mary Shelley by Richard Rothwell (1840–41)

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  H. P. Lovecraft in 1915

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  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.