Horror fiction
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Horror is a genre of speculative fiction that is intended to disturb, frighten, or scare an audience. Horror is often divided into the sub-genres of psychological horror and supernatural horror. Liter
Count Dracula, a vampire who emigrates from Transylvania to England and preys upon the blood of living victims, poster of Dracula (1931)
An illustration of Andrew Lang's "Athenodorus confronts the Spectre"
Horace Walpole wrote the first Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764), initiating a new literary genre.
H. P. Lovecraft in 1915
Stephen King
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Stephen Edwin King is an American author. Dubbed the "King of Horror", he is widely known for his horror fiction and has also explored other genres, among them suspense, crime, science-fiction, fantas
Horror fiction
…publishers to begin releasing numerous other horror novels, thus creating a "horror boom". One of the best-known late-20th century horror writers is Stephen King, known for Carrie, The Shining, It, Misery, and several dozen other novels and about 200 short stories. Beginning in the 1970s, King's stories have…
King in 2024
In 1971, King worked as a teacher at Hampden Academy.
King in 2007
King in 2011