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  2. 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.

  3. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark - Wikipedia

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    ghost stories, including a vanishing hitchhiker story, as well as a story of a black dog; a retelling of the legend of the death of Oleg the Prophet; a story of an adult-sized doll that comes to life. Inspired by the Swiss Alps tale of the Sennentuntschi; a story from the Lincolnshire Marsh, which was alleged to be inhabited by evil spirits; a ...

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  5. Lovecraftian horror - Wikipedia

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    Horror-adventure game No One Lives Under the Lighthouse draws significant inspiration from Lovecraft's work. Signalis, a 2022 horror game, is inspired by and features a quotation from Lovecraft's short story The Festival. The Baby in Yellow is a 2023 Lovecraftian comedy horror game created by Scottish studio Team Terrible.

  6. 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 ...

  7. Howls from the Dark Ages - Wikipedia

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    "In Thrall to This Good Earth" by Hailey Piper "In Every Drop" by Lindsey Ragsdale "Deus Vult" by Ethan Yoder "The Final Book of Sainte Foy's Miracles" by M. E. Bronstein "A Dowry for Your Hand" by Michelle Tang "The Mouth of Hell" by Cody Goodfellow "The Lady of Leer Castle" by Christopher O'Halloran "Schizzare" by Bridget D. Brave "The King ...

  8. 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.

  9. Lists of horror films - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of lists of horror films. Often there may be considerable overlap particularly between horror and other genres (including action , thriller , and science fiction films ). By decade