Horror fiction is a genre of literature, which is intended to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural. The genre has ancient origins which were reformulated in the eighteenth century as Gothic horror.
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Captured by a giant witch who wants to eat him
Looking for the the title/ author of a book of illustrated "silly" children's horror from around the early 1980's. The book is narrated by an uncle / grandfather to his (children?) about a strange ...
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Horror Comic From the 80's
I've been trying to find this comic for years, it was sold at Fred Meyers in
the early 80's. It had a very Bruce Jones style, very dark. Here is what I remember:
The plot follows 2 mutant ...
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House computer with AI takes over home, tries to procreate with woman
A malevolent computer with AI takes over a woman's house with the intent of hybrid computer/human procreation. The evil computer seals off the house with the woman in it and keeps her prisoner while ...
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Young Adult novel, late 80s: gothic horror, deserted mansion, candle flame turns blue
The public library I visited as a child had a young adult book that scared me half to death. Here's what I remember:
The cover art was in the style of Edward Gorey (black and white line art)
The ...
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Can you identifiy this short about teenagers on a raft getting swallowed up by an oil slick?
In the spirit of all the story identification today, I'm looking for some kind of TV episode about some teenagers who were at a lake.
Slowly, one by one, they get swallowed up by some kind of oil ...
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Identify a short horror story about a mysterious girl
Please help me find this short story that I read about 20 years ago:
The story is set in the late 1800 / early 1900 in an American / English city, where a young man rents an apartment whose former ...
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Trying to identify a movie about a woman who becomes obsessed with a necklace and its former owner and it kills her?
Another movie that I saw as a kid that has stuck in my memory. What I remember of the plot is that a man and his wife move into a beautiful old house. He adores his wife and they are a very happy ...
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Looking for an 80's movie about a house obsessed with a girl?
Here is the plot I can remember for a movie I saw on TV as a kid back in the 1980's. A girl grew up in a house and I think her family had lived there a long time. Somehow the house was "alive" and was ...
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A horror movie whose name I can't remember!
Two newly married couples went to a faraway house. They were chased by something that killed the bride. He went back alone to the house, where his wife, with her head cut off, suddenly appeared and ...
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Evil force in basement possesses people
This is prolly gonna be incredibly vague, so I apologize.
When I was a kid, I remember watching a movie that involved a bunch of friends in a building of some sort, and some how, they'd each ...
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Young Adult book from 80's or 90's: unpopular girl finds a vampire in her attic
I'm trying to remember the name of a book I read as a teenager. It's about an unpopular girl who finds a vampire in her attic. She makes a deal with the vampire to become popular in return for feeding ...
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When and why was Reagan possessed in The Exorcist?
In the classic film The Exorcist (1973), when exactly did Reagan become possessed by the demon? What event triggered the possession, and what was the demon's motivation for possessing her?
Was it the ...
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Why does Jack Torrance say “white man's burden” to Lloyd? [closed]
In Stanley Kubrick's fantasy/horror movie "The Shining (1980)", when Jack Torrance is talking to the bartender Lloyd in the Gold Room he says:
You set them up and I'll knock them back, one by one.
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horror story vietnam veterans ghosts horses
Looking for a ghost/horror story involving group of vietnam vets pursued by ghosts from a vietnamese cemetery. Locale is west coast USA,I believe.
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Macabre story about jazz — not Charles Beaumont?
I'm searching for a horror story that I read as a teen in the late '60s. It's about a jazz musician who is jealous of another band's success and sets out to destroy them. IIRC, he ends up amputating ...
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What novel has advanced alternate Earth humans trying to escape through portals from horrific inter-dimensional creatures?
I read this book while on vacation in Canada around 1985. The book seemed to be a recent release and consist of about 50/50 narrative and character action and was short, about 250 pages or so. The ...
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Collection of YA horror short stories late 80s early 90s called “Chills” or “Shivers”
I am looking for a series of books from the late 80's early 90's. There were at least 2 books in the series, called "Shivers" or "Chills". They were a collection of horror stories for Young Adults. I ...
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Looking for title of 1980s sci-fi horror genetic experiment film
I recall seeing a film in the 80s that was a sci-fi horror film vaguely to do with genetic experimentation. There was a small creature that had tentacles that escaped and went around causing carnage. ...
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Remembering a 90's childrens book about disease, female protagonist with a mutant sheep?
During the year 2001 I read a children's horror novel, whose title I have forgotten. I would really like to read it again as an adult, I think about this book all the time! Unfortunately it has been ...
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Name of sci-fi horror from 80s with a small eye on tentacle coming out of mans forehead
I recall watching this film as a kid in the mid 80s and it really scared me at the time. It was to do with scientists making a machine that made monsters (that apparently exist all the time but we ...
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Scene where monster inside a toilet is shot
There's a scene where a creature explodes along with a toilet when fired at with a shotgun. This is from a (B?)movie with small carnivorous creatures. It's definitely not in the Gremlins although ...
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Is Geeta shown to be transgender in the Tamil horror movie “Kanchana”? [closed]
In the 2011 released Tamil movie, Kanchana, the main character Kanchana is shown to be transgender but after watching the movie, I am not able to understand whether Geeta is also shown to be ...
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Looking for a horror stories from the late 80's early 90's
I read the book a long time ago and various google searches have not been helpful, there are two stories that have really stuck with me and they may be from two seperate books. The first was a short ...
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What was the name of this anthology TV series from the eighties?
I remember several science fiction, horror, suspense and mystery episodes from an anthology TV series in the eighties. Here are some episodes (with spoilers, sorry)
a) Two policemen get kind of lost ...
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Which Dracula movie is most faithful to the original Bram Stoker book?
There are many movies based on Bram Stoker's "Dracula" book.
Which one(s) can be considered to be the most faithful adaptation ? Ideally something clearly recognisable as being "the film of the ...
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In ”The Cabin in the Woods”, what was the significance of the locket?
In the basement,
What was the locket's counterpart?
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Anyone Remember a Short Story or Novel about Cosmic Balance in the SF Bay Area?
I read a novel (or possibly short story) years ago about a sort-of "cosmic balance" in the San Francisco Bay area. I recall the cover (or illustration) depicting a giant old-fashioned scale ...
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Movie (or TV show) story with haunted house and organ playing
I was trying to remember some strange story I saw as a kid. It was on TV, but it don't remember if it was a TV show or a movie. I remember that the camera work was in color, and had that weird ...
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And then her head fell off
I remember reading a compilation of childrens/bedtime/scary story's as a child, one of which was about a girl and a boy who eventually got married. Throughout the short story, she had a black ribbon ...
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What is the origin of sheet covered ghosts (in film & in books)?
I'm interested in this because it should have an answer. Perhaps Disney were the first to use it?
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Please help me find the author/title of this book
WARNING: Graphic
All I remember about this fantasy horror book is the following:
There is a killer that can stop time. He is searching (or chasing) the protagonist. There is one graphic sequence, ...
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What was the actual alien in Dreamcatcher?
This question is about the book by Stephen King, not about the movie. In the book, and near the end, it is revealed that "Mr. Gray" was somehow a figment of Jonesy's imagination. However, and maybe ...
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Looking for an anthology of horror short stories from the late 1970s or early 1980s
The story I am looking for involves a little girl who thinks she is hideously ugly. Her foster mother tells her that she is as well. The girl gazes out a window at the gardener who is a perfect ...
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How is the original Frankenstein movie (1931) different from the novel?
I read a review of the 1931 Frankenstein movie recently and in it the reviewer said that the movie was adapted from a play, which was significantly different from the original novel.
What are the ...
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Why are all the Watchers in Buffy English?
In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, was there ever any reason given for all of the Watchers being English? Or does the show just make them such because the accent is cool?
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Collection of fantasy/horror short stories with one or two full color illustrations per story
First, this is absolutely not Scary Stories or More Scary Stories. I don't think there is any relation there.
From what I remember the book contained a collection of shorties that may or may not ...
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Story Identification - zombie movie on a ship
I remember seeing part of a movie about a bunch of commandos or other "hard men" that storm a ship at sea only to be suprised by a hoard of zombies on the ship. What is that movie? This is driving ...
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Story Identification: Young adult novel, horror, teens play a D&D variant, but things start to turn real
To the best of my recollection, they went to a house of some sort for the evening to enhance the role-play aspects of some D&D clone/adaptation, and there was even a stuffed octopus or some such ...
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Movie where something in the water on a farm makes the family go crazy
The movie revolved around a small farm where something happened to the water and crazy things started happening. The plants and animals started growing worms inside of them and the people started ...
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TV movie about a man scared of a figure seen in mirrors
There's a short TV movie I remember seeing as a kid that I thought was really scary and have never found out what it was. Can anyone help naming it?
I remember seeing this on television approx 15-20 ...
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What influence did H.P. Lovecraft have on science fiction?
The main focus of Lovecraft's works are indeed... aliens. Lots and lots of aliens. Some visited Earth and lived on it. Some battled between themselves. Some built cities. Some destroyed cities. Some ...
