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  2. It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

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    In a review published by Autostraddle, Abeni Jones talked about the usefulness of the collection to readers who might not necessarily enjoy horror films but who are looking for queer representation, citing essays on Jaws and The Birds as examples. Jones also praised the essays for not being overly analytical, saying "[t]hese are personal essays ...

  3. Horror and terror - Wikipedia

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    Horror is also a genre of film and fiction that relies on horrifying images or situations to tell stories and prompt reactions or jump scares to put their audiences on edge. In these films the moment of horrifying revelation is usually preceded by a terrifying build up, often using the medium of scary music.

  4. Rhetorical modes - Wikipedia

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    Examples are the satiric mode, the ironic, the comic, the pastoral, and the didactic. [2] Frederick Crews uses the term to mean a type of essay and categorizes essays as falling into four types, corresponding to four basic functions of prose: narration, or telling; description, or picturing; exposition, or explaining; and argument, or ...

  5. Persuasive writing - Wikipedia

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    Persuasive writing is a form of written arguments designed to convince, motivate, or sway readers toward a specific point of view or opinion on a given topic. This writing style relies on presenting reasoned opinions supported by evidence that substantiates the central thesis .

  6. Ghost story - Wikipedia

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    Ghost stories are commonly examples of ghostlore. Colloquially, the term "ghost story" can refer to any kind of scary story. In a narrower sense, the ghost story has been developed as a short story format, within genre fiction. It is a form of supernatural fiction and specifically of weird fiction, and is often a horror story.

  7. 10 Spooky Books That Would Make Good Movies - AOL

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    Lucy Undying: A Dracula Novel by Kiersten White is a queer, gothic saga filled with monsters and romance aplenty, exploring the untold story of one of Dracula’s earliest victims. On the run from ...

  8. Abjection - Wikipedia

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    Abjection is a major theme of the 1949 work The Thief's Journal (Journal du Voleur) by French author Jean Genet, a fictionalised account of his wanderings through Europe in the 1930s, wherein he claims as a criminal outcast to actively seek abjections as an existentialist form of "sainthood" [15]

  9. The Outsider (short story) - Wikipedia

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    "The Outsider" is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between March and August 1921, it was first published in Weird Tales, April 1926. [1] In this work, a mysterious individual who has been living alone in a castle for as long as he can remember decides to break free in search of human contact and light.