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 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

Horror media

• Comics
• Films
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• Magazines
• Television programs
• Giallo
• Grand Guignol

Subgenres of horror

• 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
  • American
  • Romance (film)
  • Southern
  • Southern Ontario
  • Space
  • Suburban
  • Tasmanian
  • Urban
• Hixploitation (film)
• Japanese
• Korean (film)
• Lovecraftian
• Monsters
  • Jiangshi
  • Kaiju (film)
  • Vampire
  • Werewolf
• 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

History of horror fiction

• History of horror films