Questions tagged [horror]
For questions looking to identify a story in the horror genre that also contains elements of science-fiction and fantasy. Always use in conjunction with the [story-identification] tag. Also use for questions about the genre as a whole. Do NOT use to classify works of fiction.
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What’s the name of this horror movie where a girl dies and comes back to life evil?
I remember a movie that I saw the trailer and coming attractions for when I was little. Maybe in 2008-2013?
It was a horror movie. A teenaged girl gets killed at a party by hitting her head, I think ...
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Can you help me find this short horror story I heard on Otis Jiry's Scary Stories Told in the Dark podcast?
The story is about a man who digs a hole near a Union camp during the American Civil War. He is planning to try and assassinate a Union general by hiding in it and covering himself with a camouflaged ...
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B&W sci-fi horror movie from the 2000s, Eastern European, the setting is underground, in a mine I think
It's NOT "The Superdeep", but it's similar. There's a plant based life form killing people underground in a mining or military facility. The production is very dark and gritty, seemed fairly ...
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70s? Horror story. A demon is assaulting and killing female students in a small town. In the end, the elderly female teacher kills it [duplicate]
Story is probably from the 70s or earlier. Maybe a short story, but I cant be sure. I stopped reading horror stories. (The Amityville Horror novel freaked me out big time and that was about the last ...
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A horror-SF short story that begins as a "mundane" dialogue between two paranoid conspiracy theorists [duplicate]
I read this short story about 20 years ago, in a collection. But I think it was a rather old collection even then.
At the beginning it looks like a paranoid conspiracy theorist trying to convince a ...
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80’ UK Sci-fi/Horror show about an alien invasion in the UK
I have a distant memory of a TV show that absolutely terrified me as a kid. I feel like Ive had this memory my entire life and never known what show/film it was. I know it’s possibly English and it ...
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Post apocalyptic horror/thriller movie set in a building with puzzle rooms and killer dogs
This will be very hard to know just cause of how BAD my memory is. I watched this movie when I was REALLY young. I can’t remember anything other then small snip bits and moth even that well I just ...
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Horror short story about a watchmaker who sits in his shop as various characters come in and out of the store
I listened to a horror short story on YouTube about 6 or 7 years ago, I've been trying to find it for a while. Since I listened to it on YouTube, I cannot tell you if it was by a published author or ...
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Teen sf/horror book with main character with club foot
I'm looking for a teen sf/horror book where the main character has a disability in one of the legs (clubfoot).
The story summary I remember is:
There's a huge human ship that meets a small shuttle ...
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Sci-fi/horror anthology TV episode featuring a man and a woman waking up and restarting events repeatedly
I can't remember this episode or show and have been searching for years. It must be something in the vein of Monsters, The Twilight Zone revival, The Outer Limits, Tales from the Crypt, Tales from the ...
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Witch paints uncle/father he disappears, traps him in painting YA book read 40 years ago
Trying to find fantasy book I read as a child, was a bit scary, sort of mild YA horror. Main thing I remember was these children had an aunt or stepmother or governess who was some kind of witch. The ...
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Movie in which two gay men smuggle either a worm or parasite in their bodies
My wife is looking for a movie title with the premise being that two gay men are smuggling either a worm or a parasite in their bodies.
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A horror short story where an almost-human woman gives birth to dozens of homunculi
I read this short story (or perhaps novelette) at least 20 years ago, probably more. I suppose it was in a collection, since I very rarely read magazines. I don't remember if I read it in French or in ...
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Sci-fi action-horror film involving an age-reversal drug and a wartime ship rising up through the ice
Trying hard to find an odd movie I watched quite a while ago, most likely released from late-90s to early-2000s. The cinematography, stunts, and effects were pretty good. Acting was passable for ...
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Book Identification: Gamebook about a kid stuck in a science museum after closing
I remember reading this book as a kid, so it must have been published before 2012. The book is a choose your own adventure style, or a game book where you choose the next step in the story by flipping ...
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Horror movie set in the Southern US involving a woman in hospital and her psychic son
I remember watching this movie on cable around 2008 to 2010. The movie was probably less than five years old when I saw it.
It took place in the Southern US--I'm thinking Bayou Country--but was ...
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Very old horror short story about a dead man waking up
A dead man wakes up because his cemetery is being plowed up so they can build something there (apartments, houses, a parking lot?). I think the man kills the person running the bulldozer or backhoe? ...
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An impending autopsy on a totally paralyzed person who is still alive [closed]
I'm looking for an anthology of horror stories written in the 1970s that contained a story about a person (a man?) who was on a table and was scheduled for an impending autopsy. The person was fully ...
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Horror movie about people getting a radio message they don’t understand
Looking for a sci-fi/horror movie from 1970’s or early 80’s. The only thing I can remember is a group of people keep getting a radio message that they don’t understand that turns out being a warning ...
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Old horror movie about a ship and the end of the world
I am trying to find a movie I saw when I was a kid. I am 38 years old.
It was about a ship (kind of an airplane) and this ship has sections; each section will have something. I remember one section ...
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Short story with a house in a suburban neighborhood that was dangerous only at certain times of day
I remember the feeling of impending terror I got reading this story more than the storyline. I know it was in an anthology, whether sci-fi, fantasy or horror. There's nothing that I can remember in ...
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Anthology of comic illustrated horror and fantasy comics, one was werewolves pre 1985
Anthology of comic illustrated horror and fantasy comics, one was werewolves pre 1985
Wasn’t a magazine as my public school library had it and I read it many times. Graduated there in 1986 so the book ...
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Old book about a man who finds an abandoned house with a portal to another world
This is an old book I think written around 1930s-ish timeframe (possibly older) and could be by a female author.
A man is traveling around Europe and finds what appears to be an abandoned house. (I ...
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SF/horror short story about a man who is chosen in a government lottery to look after a prison silo
I read a short story some time ago, and I can't recall the title or the author. I've asked AI, but it... Isn't helpful. (But I'm grateful to our robot overlords for their attempts. Honestly.)
The ...
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Horror movie that has a demon hand coming through a mirror
I think this movie was from either the 80's, the late 70's or even the late 80's.
The only parts of this movie that I can recall (I was really young when I watched this with my dad) was a priest (I ...
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Young adult horror story in which a boy's neighbor turns out to be the Devil
What I can remember is that a boy lives with his grandma in a apartment and a new neighbor moves in. The kid befriends the neighbor as the neighbor seems to know the kid's secret thoughts. It turns ...
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Horror movie in which one or more characters peer through windows at a house across the way and watch the silhouette of a man who might be dead
Viewed at US drive-in mid 1980's, this horror movie could (??) have been non-English and black & white. Unknown release date. Unknown country of origin.
Passage of time has made me an unreliable ...
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TV series about hospital where supernatural things happen
I saw the first episode of this and part of another one in around the late 90's- maybe early 2000's. The hero was a doctor, one of a select few who were deemed worthy to work in this hospital. Over ...
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A short story in French about furniture that leaves a mansion by itself, and comes back some time later
I read this Fantasy short story decades ago. I read it in French in a collection. As in two of my previous questions, it was not a collection of Fantasy, just one Fantasy story among several ...
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Story in an early 90's Horror Anthology re: demons in basement of new house
I've been trying to track down this Horror Anthology book, or the story. I believe I read it in summer of '92. It involves a brother and sister whose family move to a new house. Shortly after the ...
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A Fantasy story where a man appears to have been crushed on his wedding night by a statue on the finger of which he has put a wedding ring
I read this Fantasy short story in high school, in the late 60's. I read it in French in a collection. It was not a collection of Fantasy, this story just one Fantasy story among several mainstream ...
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Old horror movie about a scientist building a device to stop death [duplicate]
I've a hazy recollection of seeing a short glimpse of a black and white horror movie on TV in the 1980's. The movie was old already then.
I believe it was about a researcher who built a device that ...
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Modern teens are cursed with medieval torture or death
I'm trying to identify a short story or novel I read in English about a group of modern teens (boys and girls both) in a modern (80s/90s) setting who are somehow cursed (be careful what you wish for? ...
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Short scary stories anthology book - Swore on a Dead Cat
I've had the phrase "you swore on a dead cat?" bouncing around in my head for years, and I think I can trace it back to a short scary story anthology book I read in the third grade, around ...
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Short story about a haunted hotel room with a stain on the wallpaper
The story is about a man who comes to a hotel as part of his travels. He has stayed there before and even notices that the man at the front desk is acting in a more formal fashion to him than usual. ...
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Movie in which the couple figurine atop a wedding cake doubles as a voodoo doll
I have only very vague memories of this live-action horror movie:
I watched it in the 90s, or early 00s, on TV.
It had a "British" feel to it, though I most likely watched a German dubbing.
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Fantasy short story where an artist sees in an oneiric vision a woman who has died years earlier
I read this fantasy short story in a collection, in French, only 5 or 6 years ago, but "before Covid". I think, however, that it is much older.
It takes place, I believe, about 150 or 200 ...
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Short story in which a driver picks up hitchhikers who each try to kill him for political reasons
As a driver listens to the news on radio, first it's a race war, and his black passenger tries to kill him. Then he picks up a woman as a flyer calling for death to men falls from her purse she tries ...
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Seventies or sixties movie where creatures are unearthed from beneath the streets
I am trying to find the name of a movie I watched as a child in the seventies. It was prior to 1979.
Under a city there was a gas leak, I think, and while being repaired these larvae / insect bodies ...
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Horror short story : a character escapes from a sinister castle and finds a beautiful one
I read this horror short story, probably in a collection, about 20 years ago. But somehow I think it is much older than that.
The POV character lives alone in a sinister castle. He does not remember ...
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Late 70s/early 80s sci-fi/horror comic with a story about a pair of colonists and another about a group of friends kidnapped by a circus or freak show
I am trying to locate the title and issue number of a science fiction/fantasy/horror comic book. It was an issue I purchased sometime between 1977-1983. Two of the stories were as follows:
Sci-fi/...
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Horror/Monster movie shown on TV in Basic Instinct
In a scene in Basic Instinct, where Nick Curran has nodded off on his sofa and is awoken when someone calls to tell him a detective he has locked horns with has been killed, there is what looks like a ...
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Short horror story where it is revealed that everyone who dies is tormented
Looking for a short horror story about a secret fiercely guarded by the church. The secret is that EVERYONE who dies, good or bad, saint or sinner, goes into eternal torment, consumed by a giant ...
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Ghost Story set on a Victorian age ocean going liner. Everyone who has slept in a certain cabin for the last four voyages has jumped overboard
I read this after 2000 but from the language used it might well have been written as well at set in Victorian times.The name of the ship was The Kamchatka it may have been spelled a little differently ...
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A short sci-fi/horror story about an ink blot type alien creature 70’s or 80’s
The story begins with the creature in the forest relating the story from its perspective. It has sustained itself on small animals but appears to need more intelligent life forms to absorb.
The ...
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What is the name of a horror movie about small insects that destroyed humanity? [duplicate]
I saw a movie as a child sometime in 1985-1995.
Special features: Insects could gather in a bunch, put on clothes and pretend to be human.
Memorable scene: The survivors are hiding in the last ...
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Horror movie that starts with with two sisters fighting over a doll
I remember an opening scene with two sisters fighting over a doll. One sister is holding the legs and the leg pops off; the doll has marker sunglasses. Years later, one sister gets into an accident ...
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Black & White Movie that ends with zombie on floor starving
My husband, who is French (mentioning in case it's a European film) remembers a film that he says was a zombie movie in black and white and the ending was basically a zombie starving on the floor of a ...
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A nightmarish short story where a man finds that all the people he knew do not exist anymore
I read this short story only about 4 or 5 years ago (a bit "before Covid"), probably in a collection.
The pages of a manuscript are found on a table of a café next to an empty coffee cup. ...
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A story about a woman so weird that her husband commits suicide when he finds out the truth about her
This story is not a novel, nor a short story. Probably novella-size, or longish novelette. I read it at least 30 years ago, maybe more. And I don't remember if I read it in English or in French, but ...
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