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)
Horace Walpole wrote the first Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764), initiating a new literary genre.