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This article is about the genre. For the film genre, see Horror film

"Supernatural horror" redirects here. For the film genre, 😊 see Supernatural horror film

Horror is a genre of fiction that is intended to disturb, frighten or scare.[1] 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".[2] 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.

Prevalent elements include ghosts, demons, vampires, monsters, zombies, werewolves, the Devil, serial 😊 killers, extraterrestrial life, killer toys, psychopaths, sexual deviancy, rape, gore, torture, evil clowns, cults, cannibalism, vicious animals, the apocalypse, evil 😊 witches, dystopia, and human-made or natural disasters.

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