Table of Contents
233 relations: A Sicilian Romance, Albert Fish, Alexander Belyaev, Alternate history, Anachronism, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Ann Radcliffe, Anne Rice, Antisemitism, Argosy (magazine), Aristocracy, Arthur Conan Doyle, Asclepius, Athenodorus Cananites, Athens, Aurealis Award, Australian Horror Writers Association, Australian Shadows Awards, Bible, Bisclavret, Bluebeard, Book of Revelation, Bram Stoker, Bram Stoker Award, Brian Lumley, Brian Stableford, Brothers Grimm, Carl Panzram, Carrie (novel), Carrie Vaughn, Chaeronea, Charles Maturin, Christmas horror, Cimon, Clive Barker, Comic book, Complex Networks, Cool Air, Crime fiction, Cthulhu Mythos, Dagon and Other Macabre Tales, Dan Simmons, Danse Macabre (book), Dark fantasy, Darrell Schweitzer, David J. Skal, David Pringle, Dean Koontz, Death metal, ... Expand index (183 more) »
- Speculative fiction
A Sicilian Romance
A Sicilian Romance is a gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe.
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Albert Fish
Hamilton Howard "Albert" Fish (May 19, 1870 – January 16, 1936) was an American serial killer, rapist, child molester and cannibal who committed at least three child murders between July 1924 and June 1928.
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Alexander Belyaev
Alexander Romanovich Belyaev (Алекса́ндр Рома́нович Беля́ев,; – 6 January 1942) was a Soviet Russian writer of science fiction.
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Alternate history
Alternate history (also referred to as alternative history, allohistory, althist, or simply AH) is a subgenre of speculative fiction in which one or more historical events have occurred but are resolved differently than in actual history.
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Anachronism
An anachronism (from the Greek ἀνά ana, 'against' and χρόνος khronos, 'time') is a chronological inconsistency in some arrangement, especially a juxtaposition of people, events, objects, language terms and customs from different time periods.
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Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.
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Ancient Rome
In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.
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Ann Radcliffe
Ann Radcliffe (née Ward; 9 July 1764 – 7 February 1823) was an English novelist and a pioneer of Gothic fiction.
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Anne Rice
Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien; October 4, 1941 – December 11, 2021) was an American author of gothic fiction, erotic literature, and bible fiction.
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Antisemitism
Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against, Jews.
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Argosy (magazine)
Argosy was an American magazine, founded in 1882 as The Golden Argosy, a children's weekly, edited by Frank Munsey and published by E. G. Rideout.
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Aristocracy
Aristocracy is a form of government that places power in the hands of a small, privileged ruling class, the aristocrats.
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Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician.
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Asclepius
Asclepius (Ἀσκληπιός Asklēpiós; Aesculapius) is a hero and god of medicine in ancient Greek religion and mythology.
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Athenodorus Cananites
Athenodorus Cananites (Greek: Ἀθηνόδωρος Κανανίτης, Athenodoros Kananites; c. 74 BC7 AD) was a Stoic philosopher.
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Athens
Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece.
Aurealis Award
The Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction is an annual literary award for Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction.
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Australian Horror Writers Association
The Australian Horror Writers Association (AHWA) is a non-profit organisation that commenced in 2003 with the goal of providing a unified voice and sense of community for Australian writers of dark fiction (horror and dark fantasy) and to further the development of dark fiction in Australia.
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Australian Shadows Awards
The Australian Shadows Awards, also known as the Australasian Shadows Awards, are annual literary awards established by the Australian Horror Writers Association (AHWA) in 2005 to honour the best published works of horror fiction written or edited by an Australian/New Zealand/Oceania resident in the previous calendar year.
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Bible
The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία,, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and other Abrahamic religions.
Bisclavret
"Bisclavret" ("The Werewolf") is one of the twelve Lais of Marie de France written in the 12th century.
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Bluebeard
"Bluebeard" (Barbe bleue) is a French folktale, the most famous surviving version of which was written by Charles Perrault and first published by Barbin in Paris in 1697 in Histoires ou contes du temps passé.
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Book of Revelation
The Book of Revelation or Book of the Apocalypse is the final book of the New Testament (and therefore the final book of the Christian Bible).
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Bram Stoker
Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author who is best known for writing the 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula.
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Bram Stoker Award
The Bram Stoker Award is a recognition presented annually by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in dark fantasy and horror writing.
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Brian Lumley
Brian Lumley (2 December 1937 – 2 January 2024) was an English author of horror fiction.
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Brian Stableford
Brian Michael Stableford (25 July 1948 – 24 February 2024) was a British academic, critic and science fiction writer who published a hundred novels and over a hundred volumes of translations.
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Brothers Grimm
The Brothers Grimm (die Brüder Grimm or die Gebrüder Grimm), Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm (1786–1859), were German academics who together collected and published folklore.
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Carl Panzram
Charles "Carl" Panzram (June 28, 1891 – September 5, 1930) was an American serial killer, spree killer, mass murderer, rapist, child molester, arsonist, robber, thief, and burglar.
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Carrie (novel)
Carrie is a 1974 horror novel, the first by American author Stephen King.
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Carrie Vaughn
Carrie Vaughn (born January 28, 1973) is an American writer, the author of the urban fantasy Kitty Norville series.
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Chaeronea
Chaeronea (English: or; Χαιρώνεια) is a village and a former municipality in Boeotia, Greece, located about 35 kilometers east of Delphi.
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Charles Maturin
Charles Robert Maturin, also known as C. R. Maturin (25 September 1780 – 30 October 1824), was an Irish Protestant clergyman (ordained in the Church of Ireland) and a writer of Gothic plays and novels.
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Christmas horror
Christmas horror is a fiction genre and film genre that incorporates horror elements into a seasonal setting.
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Cimon
Cimon or Kimon (Kimōn Miltiadou Lakiadēs; – 450BC) was an Athenian strategos (general and admiral) and politician.
Clive Barker
Clive Barker (born 5 October 1952) is an English novelist who came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories, the Books of Blood, which established him as a leading horror writer.
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Comic book
A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes.
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Complex Networks
Complex Networks is an American media and entertainment company for youth culture, based in New York City.
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Cool Air
"Cool Air" is a short story by the American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in March 1926 and published in the March 1928 issue of Tales of Magic and Mystery.
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Crime fiction
Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professional detective, of a crime, often a murder.
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Cthulhu Mythos
The Cthulhu Mythos is a mythopoeia and a shared fictional universe, originating in the works of Anglo-American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.
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Dagon and Other Macabre Tales
Dagon and Other Macabre Tales is a collection of stories by American author H. P. Lovecraft, which also includes his essay on weird fiction, "Supernatural Horror in Literature".
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Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948) is an American science fiction and horror writer.
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Danse Macabre (book)
Danse Macabre is a 1981 non-fiction book by Stephen King, about horror fiction in print, TV, radio, film and comics, and the influence of contemporary societal fears and anxieties on the genre.
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Dark fantasy
Dark fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy literary, artistic, and cinematic works that incorporates disturbing and frightening themes.
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Darrell Schweitzer
Darrell Charles Schweitzer (born August 27, 1952) is an American writer, editor, and critic in the field of speculative fiction.
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David J. Skal
David John Skal (June 21, 1952 – January 1, 2024) was an American cultural historian, critic, writer, and on-camera commentator known for his research and analysis of horror films, horror history and horror culture.
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David Pringle
David Pringle (born 1 March 1950) is a Scottish science fiction editor and critic.
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Dean Koontz
Dean Ray Koontz (born July 9, 1945) is an American author.
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Death metal
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music.
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Dennis Wheatley
Dennis Yates Wheatley (8 January 1897 – 10 November 1977) was a British writer whose prolific output of thrillers and occult novels made him one of the world's best-selling authors from the 1930s through to the 1960s.
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Devendra Varma
Devendra Varma (17 October 1923 - 24 October 1994) was an expert on Gothic literature.
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Dracula
Dracula is a gothic horror novel by Bram Stoker, published on 26 May 1897.
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EC Comics
E.C. Publications, Inc., (doing business as EC Comics) is an American comic book publisher specialized in horror fiction, crime fiction, satire, military fiction, dark fantasy, and science fiction from the 1940s through the mid-1950s, notably the Tales from the Crypt series.
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Ed Gein
Edward Theodore Gein (August 27, 1906 – July 26, 1984), also known as the Butcher of Plainfield or the Plainfield Ghoul, was an American murderer, suspected serial killer and body snatcher.
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Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, author, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre.
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Elizabeth Báthory
Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed (Báthori Erzsébet,; Alžbeta Bátoriová; 7 August 1560 – 21 August 1614) was a Hungarian noblewoman and alleged serial killer from the Báthory family, who owned land in the Kingdom of Hungary (now Slovakia).
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Euripides
Euripides was a tragedian of classical Athens.
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Fiction
Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying individuals, events, or places that are imaginary or in ways that are imaginary.
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Frankenstein
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley.
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French literature
French literature generally speaking, is literature written in the French language, particularly by citizens of France; it may also refer to literature written by people living in France who speak traditional languages of France other than French.
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Fritz Haarmann
Friedrich Heinrich Karl "Fritz" Haarmann (25 October 1879 – 15 April 1925) was a German serial rapist and serial killer, known as the Butcher of Hanover, the Vampire of Hanover and the Wolf Man, who committed the sexual assault, murder, mutilation and dismemberment of at least twenty-four young men and boys in the city of Hanover between 1918 and 1924.
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Gaston Leroux
Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (6 May 186815 April 1927) was a French journalist and author of detective fiction.
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Genre
Genre (kind, sort) is any style or form of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially agreed-upon conventions developed over time.
George A. Romero
George Andrew Romero Jr. (February 4, 1940 – July 16, 2017) was an American-Canadian film director, writer, editor and actor.
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German language
German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.
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Ghost story
A ghost story is any piece of fiction, or drama, that includes a ghost, or simply takes as a premise the possibility of ghosts or characters' belief in them. Horror fiction and ghost story are speculative fiction.
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Gilles de Rais
Gilles de Rais (1405 – 26 October 1440), Baron de Rais, was a knight and lord from Brittany, Anjou and Poitou, a leader in the French army during the Hundred Years' War, and a companion-in-arms of Joan of Arc.
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Goosebumps
Goosebumps is a series of horror novels written by American author R. L. Stine.
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Gothic aspects in Frankenstein
When Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus was published in 1818, the novel immediately found itself labeled as Gothic and, with a few exceptions, promoted to the status of masterpiece.
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Gothic fiction
Gothic fiction, sometimes called Gothic horror (primarily in the 20th century), is a loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting.
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Graham Masterton
Graham Masterton (born 16 January 1946, in Edinburgh) is a British author known primarily for horror fiction.
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Guillaume de Palerme
Guillaume de Palerme ("William of Palerne") is a French romance poem, later translated into English where it is also known as William and the Werewolf.
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H. G. Wells
Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer.
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H. P. Lovecraft
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American writer of weird, science, fantasy, and horror fiction.
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Hamlet
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, usually shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601.
Hannibal Lecter
Dr.
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Hansel and Gretel
"Hansel and Gretel" (Hänsel und Gretel) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and published in 1812 as part of Grimms' Fairy Tales (KHM 15).
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Hellblazer
John Constantine, Hellblazer is an American contemporary horror comic-book series published by DC Comics since January 1988, and subsequently by its Vertigo imprint since March 1993, when the imprint was introduced.
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Hellboy
Hellboy is a superhero created by Mike Mignola and appearing in comic books published by Dark Horse Comics.
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Hippolytus (play)
Hippolytus (Ἱππόλυτος, Hippolytos) is an Ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides, based on the myth of Hippolytus, son of Theseus.
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Hippolytus of Athens
''The Death of Hippolytus'', by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912) In Greek mythology, Hippolytus (Ἱππόλυτος, Hippolytos 'unleasher of horses') is the son of Theseus and either Hippolyta or Antiope.
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Historical fantasy
Historical fantasy is a category of fantasy and genre of historical fiction that incorporates fantastic elements (such as magic) into a more "realistic" narrative.
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History of horror films
The history of horror films was described by author Siegbert Solomon Prawer as difficult to read as a linear historical path, with the genre changing throughout the decades, based on the state of cinema, audience tastes and contemporary world events.
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Horace Walpole
Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), better known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, and Whig politician.
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Horror comics
Horror comics are comic books, graphic novels, black-and-white comics magazines, and manga focusing on horror fiction.
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Horror convention
Horror conventions are gatherings of the community of fans of various forms of horror including horror cinema, goth lifestyle, and occasionally science fiction and fantasy.
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Horror film
Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes.
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Horror podcast
A horror podcast is a podcast that covers fiction, non-fiction, or reviews of the horror genre generally.
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Horror Writers Association
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is a worldwide non-profit organization of professional writers and publishing professionals dedicated to promoting the interests of horror and dark fantasy writers.
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House of Leaves
House of Leaves is the debut novel by American author Mark Z. Danielewski, published in March 2000 by Pantheon Books.
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HuffPost
HuffPost (The Huffington Post until 2017; often abbreviated as HuffPo) is an American progressive news website, with localized and international editions.
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I Am Legend (novel)
I Am Legend is a 1954 post-apocalyptic horror novel by American writer Richard Matheson that was influential in the modern development of zombie and vampire literature and in popularizing the concept of a worldwide apocalypse due to disease.
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International Horror Guild Award
The International Horror Guild Award (also known as the IHG Award) was an accolade recognizing excellence in the field of horror/dark fantasy, presented by the International Horror Guild (IHG) from 1995 to 2008.
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Ira Levin
Ira Marvin Levin (August 27, 1929 – November 12, 2007) was an American novelist, playwright, and songwriter.
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It (novel)
It is a 1986 horror novel by American author Stephen King.
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J. A. Cuddon
John Anthony Bowden Cuddon (2 June 1928 – 12 March 1996), was an English author, dictionary writer, and school teacher.
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Jack Halberstam
Jack Halberstam (born December 15, 1961), also known as Judith Halberstam, is an American academic and author, best known for his book Female Masculinity (1998).
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Jack the Ripper
Jack the Ripper was an unidentified serial killer active in and around the impoverished Whitechapel district of London, England, in 1888.
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James Herbert
James John Herbert, OBE (8 April 1943 – 20 March 2013) was an English horror writer.
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Jane Loudon
Jane Loudon (Webb; 19 August 1807 – 13 July 1858), also known as Jane C. Loudon, or Mrs.
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Jason Colavito
Jason Colavito (born 1981) is an American author and independent scholar specializing in the study of fringe theories particularly around ancient history and extraterrestrials.
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John William Polidori
John William Polidori (7 September 1795 – 24 August 1821) was a British writer and physician.
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Kim Newman
Kim James Newman (born 31 July 1959) is an English journalist, film critic and fiction writer.
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Kitty Norville
Kitty Norville is the main character of a series of novels by Carrie Vaughn.
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Lai (poetic form)
A lai (or lay lyrique, "lyric lay", to distinguish it from a lai breton) is a lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance.
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Lee Server
Lee Server (May 27, 1953 – December 28, 2021) was an American writer.
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LGBT themes in horror fiction
LGBT themes in horror fiction refers to sexuality in horror fiction that can often focus on LGBTQ+ characters and themes within various forms of media.
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List of ghost films
Ghost movies and shows can fall into a wide range of genres, including romance, comedy, horror, juvenile interest, and drama.
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List of horror fiction writers
This is an incomplete list of notable writers in the horror fiction genre.
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List of horror podcasts
The following is a list of horror podcasts, which vary in style of delivery.
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List of horror television programs
The following is a list of horror television programs. Programs are listed in chronological order.
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Lot No. 249
"Lot No.
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Lovecraftian horror
Lovecraftian horror, also called cosmic horror or eldritch horror, is a subgenre of horror fiction and weird fiction that emphasizes the horror of the unknowable and incomprehensible more than gore or other elements of shock.
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M. R. James
Montague Rhodes James (1 August 1862 – 12 June 1936) was an English medievalist scholar and author who served as provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918), and of Eton College (1918–1936) as well as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1913–1915).
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Manson Family
The Manson Family (known among its members as the Family) was a commune, gang, and cult led by criminal Charles Manson that was active in California in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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Marie de France
Marie de France (fl. 1160–1215) was a poet, possibly born in what is now France, who lived in England during the late 12th century.
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Mark Z. Danielewski
Mark Z. Danielewski (born March 5, 1966) is an American fiction author.
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Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who is best known for writing the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction.
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Mashup novel
A mash-up novel (also called "mashup" or "mashed-up novel") is an unauthorised non-canonical (and not even in-universe) work of fiction (often parody) which combines a pre-existing literature text, often a classic work of fiction, with another genre, usually horror genre, into a single narrative.
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Matthew Gregory Lewis
Matthew Gregory Lewis (9 July 1775 – 14 or 16 May 1818) was an English novelist and dramatist, whose writings are often classified as "Gothic horror".
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Max Allan Collins
Max Allan Collins (born March 3, 1948) is an American mystery writer, noted for his graphic novels.
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Melion
Melion is an anonymous Breton lai that tells the story of a knight who transforms into a werewolf for the love of his wife who betrays him.
Melmoth the Wanderer
Melmoth the Wanderer is an 1820 Gothic novel by Irish playwright, novelist and clergyman Charles Maturin.
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Metaphor
A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another.
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Methuen Publishing
Methuen Publishing Ltd (also known as Methuen Books) is an English publishing house.
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Mike Mignola
Michael Mignola (born September 16, 1960) is an American comic book artist and writer best known for creating Hellboy for Dark Horse Comics, part of a shared universe of titles including B.P.R.D., Abe Sapien, Lobster Johnson, and various spin-offs.
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Misery (novel)
Misery is an American psychological horror thriller novel written by Stephen King and first published by Viking Press on June 8, 1987.
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Monster
A monster is a type of fictional creature found in horror, fantasy, science fiction, folklore, mythology and religion. Horror fiction and monster are speculative fiction.
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Monster literature
Monster literature is a genre of literature that combines good and evil and intends to evoke a sensation of horror and terror in its readers by presenting the evil side in the form of a monster. Horror fiction and monster literature are speculative fiction.
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Murder
Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse committed with the necessary intention as defined by the law in a specific jurisdiction.
Mystery fiction
Mystery is a fiction genre where the nature of an event, usually a murder or other crime, remains mysterious until the end of the story.
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National Book Award
The National Book Awards (NBA) are a set of annual U.S. literary awards.
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Neil Barron
Richard Neil Barron (23 March 1934 - 5 September 2010) was a science fiction bibliographer and scholar.
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Noël Carroll
Noël Carroll (born 1947) is an American philosopher considered to be one of the leading figures in contemporary philosophy of art.
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Numinous
Numinous means "arousing spiritual or religious emotion; mysterious or awe-inspiring";Collins English Dictionary -7th ed.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright.
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ParaNorman
ParaNorman is a 2012 American animated comedy horror film directed by Sam Fell and Chris Butler (the latter's feature directorial debut), and written by Butler.
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Peter Straub
Peter Francis Straub (March 2, 1943 – September 4, 2022) was an American novelist and poet.
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Pliny the Younger
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, born Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo (61 –), better known as Pliny the Younger, was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome.
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Plutarch
Plutarch (Πλούταρχος, Ploútarchos;; – after AD 119) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi.
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is a 2009 parody novel by Seth Grahame-Smith.
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Professor Dowell's Head
Professor Dowell's Head is a 1925 science fiction and horror story (and later novel) by Russian author Alexander Belyaev.
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Protagonist
A protagonist is the main character of a story.
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Psycho (novel)
Psycho is a 1959 horror novel by American writer Robert Bloch.
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Psychological horror
Psychological horror is a subgenre of horror and psychological fiction with a particular focus on mental, emotional, and psychological states to frighten, disturb, or unsettle its audience.
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Psychological thriller
Psychological thriller is a genre combining the thriller and psychological fiction genres.
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Psychology
Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior.
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Public bathing
Public baths originated when most people in population centers did not have access to private bathing facilities.
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R. L. Stine
Robert Lawrence Stine (born October 8, 1943), known by his pen name R.L. Stine, is an American novelist.
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Ramsey Campbell
Ramsey Campbell (born 4 January 1946) is an English horror fiction writer, editor and critic who has been writing for well over fifty years.
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Reactionary
In political science, a reactionary or a reactionist is a person who holds political views that favor a return to the status quo ante—the previous political state of society—which the person believes possessed positive characteristics that are absent from contemporary society.
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Red Dragon (novel)
Red Dragon is a psychological horror novel by American author Thomas Harris, first published in 1981.
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Richard Bleiler
Richard James Bleiler (born 1959) is an American bibliographer of science fiction, fantasy, horror, crime, and adventure fiction.
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Richard Laymon
Richard Carl Laymon (January 14, 1947 – February 14, 2001) was an American author of suspense and horror fiction, particularly within the splatterpunk subgenre.
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Richard Matheson
Richard Burton Matheson (February 20, 1926 – June 23, 2013) was an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres.
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Rick Yancey
Richard Yancey is an American author who writes works of suspense, fantasy, and science fiction aimed at young adults.
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Robert Bloch
Robert Albert Bloch (April 5, 1917September 23, 1994) was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, psychological horror and fantasy, much of which has been dramatized for radio, cinema and television.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer.
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Robert Weinberg (author)
Robert Edward Weinberg (August 29, 1946 – September 25, 2016) was an American author, editor, publisher, and collector of science fiction.
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Roller coaster
A roller coaster is a type of amusement ride employing a form of elevated railroad track that carries passengers on a train through tight turns, steep slopes, and other elements usually designed to produce a thrilling experience.
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Romanticism
Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century.
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Rosemary's Baby (novel)
Rosemary's Baby is a 1967 horror novel by American writer Ira Levin; it was his second published book.
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Rudolf Otto
Rudolf Otto (25 September 1869 – 7 March 1937) was an eminent German Lutheran theologian, philosopher, and comparative religionist.
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Sensationalism
In journalism and mass media, sensationalism is a type of editorial tactic.
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Serial killer
A serial killer (also called a serial murderer) is a person who murders two or more people,An offender can be anyone.
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Shaun Hutson
Shaun Hutson (born 1958) is a British novelist in the horror and crime genres.
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Sheridan Le Fanu
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (28 August 1814 – 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales, mystery novels, and horror fiction.
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Shirley Jackson Award
The Shirley Jackson Awards are literary awards named after Shirley Jackson in recognition of her legacy in writing.
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Silver screen
A silver screen, also known as a silver lenticular screen, is a type of projection screen that was popular in the early years of the motion picture industry and passed into popular usage as a metonym for the cinema industry.
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Slasher film
A slasher film is a subgenre of horror films involving a killer or a group of killers stalking and murdering a group of people, usually by use of bladed or sharp tools.
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Speculative fiction
Speculative fiction is an umbrella genre of fiction that encompasses all the subgenres that depart from realism, or strictly imitating everyday reality, instead presenting fantastical, supernatural, futuristic, or other imaginative realms.
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Splatter film
A splatter film is a subgenre of horror films that deliberately focuses on graphic portrayals of gore and graphic violence.
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Stephen Jones (author)
Stephen Jones (born 4 November 1953 in Pimlico, London) is an English editor of horror anthologies, and the author of several book-length studies of horror and fantasy films as well as an account of H. P. Lovecraft's early British publications.
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Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author.
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Stephen King short fiction bibliography
This is a list of short fiction by Stephen King (b. 1947).
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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is an 1886 Gothic horror novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Supernatural Horror in Literature
"Supernatural Horror in Literature" is a 28,000-word essay by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, surveying the development and achievements of horror fiction as the field stood in the 1920s and 30s.
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Tales from the Crypt (comics)
Tales from the Crypt is an American bi-monthly horror comic anthology series that was published by EC Comics from 1950 to 1955 created by Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein.
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Technology
Technology is the application of conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals, especially in a reproducible way.
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Telegraphy
Telegraphy is the long-distance transmission of messages where the sender uses symbolic codes, known to the recipient, rather than a physical exchange of an object bearing the message.
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The Castle of Otranto
The Castle of Otranto is a novel by Horace Walpole.
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The Exorcist (novel)
The Exorcist is a 1971 horror novel written by American writer William Peter Blatty and published by Harper & Row.
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (translation, originally titled Notre-Dame de Paris. 1482) is a French Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831.
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The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man is an 1897 science fiction novel by British writer H. G. Wells.
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The Italian (Radcliffe novel)
The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents (1796) is a Gothic novel written by the English author Ann Radcliffe.
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is an 1820 short story by American author Washington Irving, contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories titled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Irving wrote the story while living in Birmingham, England.
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The Monk
The Monk: A Romance is a Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, published in 1796 across three volumes.
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The Monstrumologist
The Monstrumologist is a young adult horror novel written by American author Rick Yancey.
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The Mummy!
The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century is an 1827 three-volume novel written by Jane Webb (later Jane C. Loudon).
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The Mysteries of Udolpho
The Mysteries of Udolpho is a Gothic romance novel by Ann Radcliffe, which appeared in four volumes on 8 May 1794 from G. G. and J. Robinson of London.
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The New Monthly Magazine
The New Monthly Magazine was a British monthly magazine published from 1814 to 1884.
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The Other (Tryon novel)
The Other is a psychological horror novel by American writer Thomas Tryon, published in 1971.
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The Outsider (short story)
"The Outsider" is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.
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The Phantom of the Opera (novel)
The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra) is a novel by the French author Gaston Leroux.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde.
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The Shining (novel)
The Shining is a 1977 horror novel by American author Stephen King.
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The Silence of the Lambs (novel)
The Silence of the Lambs is a 1988 psychological horror crime thriller novel by Thomas Harris.
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The Terror (novel)
The Terror is a 2007 novel by American author Dan Simmons.
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The Vampyre
"The Vampyre" is a short work of prose fiction written in 1819 by John William Polidori, taken from the story told by Lord Byron as part of a contest among Polidori, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, and Percy Shelley.
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Thomas Harris
William Thomas Harris III (born September 22, 1940) is an American writer.
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Thomas Peckett Prest
Thomas Peckett (or Preskett) Prest (probable dates 1810–1859) was a British hack writer, journalist, and musician.
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Thriller (genre)
Thriller is a genre of fiction with numerous, often overlapping, subgenres, including crime, horror, and detective fiction.
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Thrillist
Thrillist is an online media website covering travel.
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Titans
In Greek mythology, the Titans (οἱ Τῑτᾶνες, hoi Tītânes, ὁ Τῑτᾱ́ν, -ήν, ho Tītân) were the pre-Olympian gods.
Tod Robbins
Clarence Aaron Robbins (25 June 1888 – May 10, 1949), billed as C. A. Robbins and better known as Tod Robbins, was an American author of horror and mystery fiction, particularly novels and short story collections.
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Tom Tryon
Thomas Lester Tryon (January 14, 1926 – September 4, 1991) was an American actor and novelist.
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University of Missouri
The University of Missouri (Mizzou or MU) is a public land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri.
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Unknown (magazine)
Unknown (also known as Unknown Worlds) was an American pulp fantasy fiction magazine, published from 1939 to 1943 by Street & Smith, and edited by John W. Campbell.
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Urban fantasy
Urban fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy, placing supernatural elements in an approximation of a contemporary urban setting.
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Vampire
A vampire is a mythical creature that subsists by feeding on the vital essence (generally in the form of blood) of the living.
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Varney the Vampire
Varney the Vampire; or, the Feast of Blood is a Victorian-era serialized gothic horror story variously attributed to James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest.
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Vathek
Vathek (alternatively titled Vathek, an Arabian Tale or The History of the Caliph Vathek) is a Gothic novel written by William Beckford.
Victor Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885), sometimes nicknamed the Ocean Man, was a French Romantic writer and politician.
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Victorian era
In the history of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the Victorian era was the reign of Queen Victoria, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.
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Villain
A villain (also known as a "black hat" or "bad guy"; the feminine form is villainess) is a stock character, whether based on a historical narrative or one of literary fiction.
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Vlad the Impaler
Vlad III, commonly known as Vlad the Impaler (Vlad Țepeș) or Vlad Dracula (Vlad Drăculea; 1428/311476/77), was Voivode of Wallachia three times between 1448 and his death in 1476/77.
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Wallachia
Wallachia or Walachia (lit,; Old Romanian: Țeara Rumânească, Romanian Cyrillic alphabet: Цѣра Рꙋмѫнѣскъ) is a historical and geographical region of modern-day Romania. It is situated north of the Lower Danube and south of the Southern Carpathians. Wallachia was traditionally divided into two sections, Muntenia (Greater Wallachia) and Oltenia (Lesser Wallachia).
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War crime
A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostages, unnecessarily destroying civilian property, deception by perfidy, wartime sexual violence, pillaging, and for any individual that is part of the command structure who orders any attempt to committing mass killings including genocide or ethnic cleansing, the granting of no quarter despite surrender, the conscription of children in the military and flouting the legal distinctions of proportionality and military necessity.
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Washington Irving
Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century.
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Weird fiction
Weird fiction is a subgenre of speculative fiction originating in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Horror fiction and Weird fiction are speculative fiction.
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Weird Tales
Weird Tales is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine founded by J. C. Henneberger and J. M. Lansinger in late 1922.
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Werewolf
In folklore, a werewolf, or occasionally lycanthrope (λυκάνθρωπος|lykánthrōpos|wolf-human|label.
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Werewolf fiction
Werewolf fiction denotes the portrayal of werewolves and other shapeshifting therianthropes, in the media of literature, drama, film, games and music.
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William Beckford (novelist)
William Thomas Beckford (29 September 1760 – 2 May 1844) was an English novelist, art critic, planter and politician.
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William Melmoth the younger
William Melmoth the younger (c.1710–1799) was an English lawyer and man of letters.
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William of Malmesbury
William of Malmesbury (Willelmus Malmesbiriensis) was the foremost English historian of the 12th century.
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William Peter Blatty
William Peter Blatty (January 7, 1928 – January 12, 2017) was an American writer, director and producer.
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Witch of Berkeley
The Witch of Berkeley is a medieval English legend written by monk William of Malmesbury that acts as an allegory of the fate of sinners.
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Woodcut
Woodcut is a relief printing technique in printmaking.
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Yellow journalism
In journalism, yellow journalism and the yellow press are American newspapers that use eye-catching headlines and sensationalized exaggerations for increased sales.
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Yorick
Yorick is an unseen character in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet.
Zombie
A zombie (Haitian French: zombi, zonbi, Kikongo: zumbi) is a mythological undead corporeal revenant created through the reanimation of a corpse.
See also
Speculative fiction
- After The Revolution
- Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
- Arab speculative fiction
- Biblical speculative fiction
- Climate fiction
- Dogs of War (2017 novel)
- Dystopia
- Eaton Collection
- Fantasy
- Fantasy podcast
- Forbidden Planet (retail chain)
- Ghost story
- Horror fiction
- LitRPG
- Lost world
- Mathematical fiction
- Megatext
- Monster
- Monster literature
- Orion's Arm
- Paranormal romance
- Pastoral science fiction
- Pop culture fiction
- Prehistoric fiction
- Project Cassandra (literature)
- Ring Shout
- Science fiction
- Skiffy
- Slipstream genre
- Southern Gothic
- Speculative evolution
- Speculative fiction
- Superhero fiction
- Supernatural
- Supernatural fiction
- The J.R.R. Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature
- Time-travel romance
- Uchronia
- Utopia
- Utopian and dystopian fiction
- Weird West
- Weird fiction
References
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