Horror
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Horror is a film, television, and literature genre that plays on the audience's primal fears. The horror genre often overlaps with the fantasy, supernatural, and thriller genres. It often focuses on folklore and religious traditions dealing with death, the afterlife, evil/darkness, and demons.
List of Horror Fandoms
- 28 Days Later
- An American Werewolf in London/An American Werewolf in Paris
- Black Swan
- The Blair Witch Project
- The Cabin in the Woods
- Child's Play series
- Cthulhu Mythos
- The Conjuring series
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Dracula
- Evil Dead
- The Faculty
- Fear the Walking Dead
- Final Destination series
- Friday the 13th film series
- Fright Night
- From Dusk Till Dawn film & TV franchise
- The Grudge
- Halloween film series
- Happy Death Day
- Hellraiser
- Hemlock Grove
- The Hills Have Eyes
- House of Wax
- Gremlins
- I Am Legend
- iZOMBIE
- Jaws
- Jeepers Creepers
- Stephen King works: Carrie, The Shining, IT
- The Lost Boys
- H.P. Lovecraft
- Night of the Living Dead
- A Nightmare on Elm Street film series
- The Omen
- Phantasm
- The Phantom of the Opera
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Poltergeist series
- Psycho
- The Purge film series
- Resident Evil series
- The Ring
- Saw series
- Scream series
- The Shining
- Silent Hill (movies)
- Sleepy Hollow
- Stranger Things
- Supernatural
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- Thirteen Ghosts
- Underworld series
- Van Helsing
- The Walking Dead
- Z Nation
- Zombieland
In Fanworks
In fanworks, an emphasis on horror is associated with gen. (See the Horror tag at Archive of Our Own. Note that of 3660 fanworks, 45% are labeled gen and only 34% are slash; this is an unusual distribution for an archive with a slight majority of works in the slash category.)[1]
However, some popular fanwork tropes are associated with the horror genre:
Fanworks
- See individual Horror fandoms to see more fanworks.
Fanfiction
- X-Manson by Dr. Benway (X-Men) – imagines Charles Xavier as the leader of a cult
- He Had No Fingers by Gleam (Naruto) – eldritch horror AU
- With Strange Aeons (Black Sails) by Amiril - Cthulhu Mythos AU
- Zogg: The Cuddly Menace - a reinterpretation of the illustrated children's book My Little Golden Book About God, in which the original text is replaced with a science fiction horror story resembling Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Fanart
Fanvids
- SLASHSTREET BOYS - “I'LL KILL YOU THAT WAY" - parody video of The Backstreet Boys as the "Slashstreet Boys": Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Ghostface, Michael Myers, and Leatherface.
Archives & Fannish Links
- See individual Horror fandoms for more links.
DeviantART
- Slasher-Slash (all Slasher related things, not just slash)
- HorrorChannel
- This is Insidious
- MovieManiacs
- Horror-for-Everyone
- Nightmare-Elm-Street
- The-Horror-Club
- Horror-Whores
Resources
- Wikipedia: Horror fiction
- Wikipedia: Horror Film
- Horror Film Wiki
- TVTROPES: Horror Genre
- List of Horror Tropes