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Judith McNaught

Genres of horror fiction, 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.

Subcategories

This category has the following 29 subcategories, out of 29 total.

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Horror works by genre (2 C)

A

Action horror (3 C, 1 P)
Analog horror (14 P)
Apocalyptic fiction (22 C, 36 P)

B

Body horror (5 C, 8 P)

C

Fiction about cannibalism (12 C, 96 P)
Horror comedy (3 C, 16 P)
Cosmic horror (3 C, 17 P)
Creepypasta (2 C, 36 P)

D

Dark fantasy (10 C, 20 P)
Horror drama (2 C, 3 P)

E

Erotic horror (3 C, 5 P)

F

Folk horror (1 C, 25 P)

G

Ghost stories (8 C, 24 P)
Gothic fiction (10 C, 52 P)

K

Kaiju (8 C, 84 P)

N

Fiction about nightmares (6 C, 10 P)

O

Occult detective fiction (11 C, 102 P)

P

S

Science fiction horror (7 C, 8 P)
Speculative crime and thriller fiction (4 C, 93 P)
Splatterpunk (6 C, 41 P)
Superhero horror (3 C)
Supernatural fiction (11 C, 27 P)

T

Techno-horror (1 C, 4 P)

W

Weird fiction (7 C, 19 P)
Horror Westerns (4 C, 12 P)

Pages in category "Horror genres"

The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.

Credit: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Horror_genres

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