Welcome to Wikipedia's
portal of
horror fiction and
horror film. Horror fiction is, broadly,
fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle, or horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the "horror" experience has often been the intrusion of an evil or occasionally misunderstood
supernatural element into everyday human experience. Since the
1960s, any work of fiction with a morbid, gruesome,
surreal, exceptionally
suspenseful or frightening theme has come to be called "horror." Horror fiction often overlaps with
science fiction and/or
fantasy, all of which have sometimes been placed under the umbrella category
speculative fiction.
In film, the horror genre is characterized by the attempt to make the viewer experience dread, fear, terror, disgust, or horror. Its plots often involve the intrusion of an evil force, event, or personage, sometimes of supernatural origin, into the mundane world.
