English word senses marked with topical category "Horror"
Parent categories: Literature, Speculative fiction, Culture, Entertainment, Writing, Fiction, Genres, Society, Human behaviour, Language, Artistic works, Human, Communication, Art
Subcategories: Lovecraftian horror, SCP Foundation
Total 90 word senses
- Cronenbergian (Adjective) Of or pertaining to David Paul Cronenberg (1943-), Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter and one of the principal originators of the body horror genre, or to his works.
- Cthulhic (Adjective) Of, or pertaining to, Cthulhu; monstrous.
- Cthulhu (Proper name) A gigantic fictional humanoid alien god being described with a head resembling an octopus and dragon wings and claws, around whom an insane cult developed.
- Frankenstein (Proper name) Victor Frankenstein, a fictional character and the main protagonist and title character in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.
- Frankenstein (Proper name) The unnamed monster created by Victor Frankenstein: a fictional character who first appeared in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus as the main antagonist.
- Godzilla (Proper name) A fictional Japanese monster (kaiju) from a series of science-fiction films.
- Krampus (Proper name) A beast in the folklore of Alpine countries, said to punish misbehaving children during the Christmas season.
- Ktulu (Proper name) Alternative spelling of Cthulhu
- Kutulu (Proper name) Alternative spelling of Cthulhu
- Lovecraft Country (Proper name) The fictionalized universe populated by the supernatural beings of H.P. Lovecraft's horror fiction and that of other authors inspired by Lovecraft's works, especially the fictionalized version of New England.
- Lovecraftian (Adjective) Of, pertaining to, or emulating the style or works of author H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937).
- Necronomicon (Proper name) A fictional book of arcane and forbidden knowledge whose contents can drive a person mad.
- SCP (Noun) A genre of science fiction horror consisting of quasi-scientific reports on the capture, containment, and attempted study of a variety of supernatural entities by the fictional SCP Foundation.
- SF/F/H (Noun) The parent genre encompassing the genres of science fiction, fantasy fiction and horror fiction; speculative fiction; imaginative fiction; non-mimetic fiction.
- alt.horrorian (Noun) A participant in the Usenet newsgroup alt.horror.
- analogue horror (Noun) A horror subgenre using visual signifiers of low-quality analogue video and audio equipment.
- antimeme (Noun) A meme deployed to nullify or protect against another meme.
- antimeme (Noun) A unit of information that erases itself from any mind that it enters, and, thus, cannot be stored mentally.
- antimeme (Noun) An image macro which intentionally subverts one's expectations by not including a joke; a meme antijoke.
- antimemetic (Adjective) Being, containing, or pertaining to an antimeme.
- body horror (Noun) A genre of horror fiction based around the graphic destruction or alteration of the body.
- bottomless pit (Noun) A pit with no visible bottom and apparently infinite depth.
- bottomless pit (Noun) Hell.
- bottomless pit (Noun) A person with an apparently boundless appetite; an entity or problem which consumes seemingly endless resources.
- cenobite (Noun) A torturous demon creature made famous by the Hellraiser series.
- chernukha (Noun) A gloomy genre of Russian horror.
- chthonian (Adjective) Pertaining to the underworld; being beneath the earth.
- chthonian (Noun) A dweller in the mythical underworld.
- cognitohazard (Noun) An image, pattern, sound, or any other kind of sensory signal that directly causes harmful or undesired physiological or physical effects to one who senses or perceives it.
- cognitohazardous (Adjective) Being, containing, or pertaining to a cognitohazard.
- cosmicism (Noun) The literary philosophy developed by the American writer H. P. Lovecraft, stating that there is no recognizable divine presence, such as God, in the universe, and that humans are particularly insignificant in the larger scheme of intergalactic existence.
- creature feature (Noun) A horror film in which one or more monsters plays a prominent role.
- creepypasta (Noun) Frightening urban legends and short stories in the horror genre, circulated on the Internet.
- dark fantasy (Noun) A subgenre of fantasy which incorporates elements of horror.
- duppy (Noun) A drawn game of noughts and crosses (in Jamaica tii-taa-tuo).
- final girl (Noun) A female character in a horror or thriller film who is the last person alive to confront the killer/monster, and often the sole survivor.
- ghost (Noun) The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death.
- ghost story (Noun) A story about ghosts or the supernatural, often meant to be frightening.
- ghoul (Noun) A demon said to feed on corpses.
- ghoul (Noun) A graverobber.
- ghoul (Noun) A person with an undue interest in death and corpses, or more generally in things that are revolting and repulsive.
- ghoul (Noun) A person with a callous or uncaring attitude to human life and suffering, particularly when prioritizing economic concerns.
- haunted house (Noun) Synonym of witch house (“music genre”)
- haunted house (Noun) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see haunted, house.
- hellhound (Noun) A demonic dog of hell, typically of unnatural size, strength or speed, with black fur, glowing eyes, and ghostly or phantom characteristics.
- hellhound (Noun) An evil or otherwise unpleasant person.
- hellspawn (Noun) A creature or creatures from hell.
- horror (Noun) A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
- horror film (Noun) Synonym of horror movie
- horror movie (Noun) A motion picture which entertains by horrifying or frightening the audience.
- horror show (Noun) A horror movie or television show or other performance which depicts gruesome, horrible, or disgusting events, especially in a vividly visual manner.
- horror story (Noun) A fictional narrative of distressing events.
- incubus (Noun) A feeling of oppression during sleep, sleep paralysis; night terrors, a nightmare.
- infohazard (Noun) A piece of information which is directly harmful to one who knows it.
- infohazardous (Adjective) Being, containing, or pertaining to a infohazard.
- jump scare (Verb) To frighten (a film audience or video game player, etc.) by means of something that happens suddenly without warning.
- kaiju (Noun) A giant monster, particularly of the kind found in Japanese science fiction films, like Godzilla or Gamera.
- lemures (Noun) The spirits or ghosts of the dead, considered as malignant.
- lycan (Noun) A werewolf.
- lycanthrope (Noun) A werewolf
- lycanthrope (Noun) More generally, any sort of werecreature.
- mara (Noun) Any caviid rodent of genus Dolichotis, common in the Patagonian steppes of Argentina.
- memetic hazard (Noun) An infohazard.
- monster (Noun) A non-player character that player(s) fight against in role-playing games.
- monster (Verb) To play (a series of) non-player characters as directed, without having the responsibility of organising the game itself; generally not limited to playing literal monsters or hostile combatants.
- monster movie (Noun) A movie featuring one or more monsters in a prominent role; a creature feature.
- monsterize (Verb) To give someone a very bad reputation; demonize, vilify.
- monsterling (Noun) A small or young monster.
- monstery (Adjective) Resembling a monster.
- scream queen (Noun) An actress who appears in several horror films.
- shoggoth (Noun) A monstrous gelatinous creature with green eyes, featured in the horror fiction of H. P. Lovecraft.
- slasher (Noun) A horror movie with graphic blood and violence; a slasher movie.
- slasher movie (Noun) A horror movie which depicts gory, murderous violence, often including scenes of torture.
- specter (Noun) A ghostly apparition, a phantom. [from :Template:SAFESUBST: c.]; A ghostly apparition, a phantom.
- spectral (Adjective) Of, or pertaining to, spectres; ghostly.
- spectral (Adjective) Of, or pertaining to, spectra; classified according to frequency or wavelength (of light etc)
- splatterpunk (Noun) A movement within horror fiction distinguished by its graphic, often gory, depictions of violence.
- splatterpunk (Noun) A fan of splatterpunk fiction.
- spooky (Adjective) Eerie, or suggestive of ghosts or the supernatural.
- succubus (Noun) A female demon which comes to men, especially monks, in their dreams to seduce them and have sexual intercourse, drawing energy from the men to sustain themselves, often until the point of exhaustion or death.
- undead (Noun) A creature that is undead; that is, dead but still animate.
- vampirically (Adverb) In a vampiric fashion.
- vampirise (Verb) Alternative form of vampirize
- vampirization (Noun) Vampiric behaviour; the predatory draining of blood or (figurative) energy etc.
- werewolf (Noun) A person who is transformed or can transform into a wolf or a wolflike human, often said to transform during a full moon.
- wraith (Noun) A ghost or specter, especially a person's likeness seen just after their death.
- zombie apocalypse (Noun) A large-scale zombie outbreak associated with the collapse of society.
- zombify (Verb) To turn into a zombie (a member of the living dead or undead).
- zombocalypse (Noun) The breakdown of society as a result of a zombie outbreak.
- zompire (Noun) A zombie-vampire hybrid.
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