Horror Fiction
Horror fiction is a genre of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to scare its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural. The genre has ancient origins which were reformulated in the eighteenth century as Gothic fiction (q.v.), usually involving a young woman in danger, crumbling ruins, madness, etc.
When that genre had run its course, a more sophisticated form of fiction took its place, with supernatural themes and psychological elements.
Major exponents of this form were H.P. Lovecraft, William Hope Hodgson and W.W. Jacobs.
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Works
- Vikram and the Vampire : classic Hindu tales of adventure, magic, and romance / Richard Burton
- Faust / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; translated by Bayard Taylor, with illustrations by Harry Clarke
- The Monk / Matthew Lewis
- Clarimonde / Théophile Gautier; translated By Lafcadio Hearn
- The Fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe
- Dracula / Bram Stoker
- Tales of Terror and Mystery / Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde / Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Picture of Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde
- The House on the Borderland / William Hope Hodgson
- The Dunwich Horror / H.P. Lovecraft
- At the Mountains of Madness / H.P. Lovecraft
- The Monkey's Paw / W. W. Jacobs
- The Toll-House / W. W. Jacobs
