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The '''Amityville Horror''' (- A True Story) is a best-selling book written by Jay Anson, and publis
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...]s of most cultures and in many works of fiction, especially fantasy and [[horror fiction]].
...vecraft]]'s short story "Herbert West; Reanimator" and the ''Re-Animator'' film inspired by the story.
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...bie creates dread among the living. Zombies have become a staple of modern horror fiction, where they usually engage in the consumption of human flesh. The t
Zombies are regularly encountered in horror]- and fantasy-themed fiction, |films, television shows, video games, and ro
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Over the centuries the story has evolved from horror story to romance with the scholar and the white snake-woman genuinely in lo
* ''The Legend of the White Serpent'' (1956) (Byaku fujin no yoren), Japanese film made by Toho in collaboration with the Shaw Brothers.
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Lovecraft referenced fictional works in his [[horror fiction]], a practice used by earlier writers (such as [[Edgar Allan Poe]])
...btedly a substantial tome as evidenced by its presentation in "The Dunwich Horror" (1929). In the story, Wilbur Whateley visits Miskatonic University's libra
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===Film===
* Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam (1920). This Silent film depiction of the "Golem of Prague" legend shows Rabbi Judah Loew consulting
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...an who pleads with him to not fish in the pond. He ignores her, and to his horror, she wipes her face off. Rushing home to hide, he is confronted by what see
...Stopping to relax, the man told the vendor of his tale, only to recoil in horror as the soba vendor stroked his face, becoming a noppera-bo himself.
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...sented in numerous novels, comic books, and a cross-over film with another horror legend, [[Freddy Krueger]].
...eature films, parodied in television shows, and been the inspiration for a horror punk band. Several toy lines have been released based on various versions o
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...ghouls, the first major motion picture of this theme was the 1933 British film entitled ''The Ghoul''. Boris Karloff plays a dying Egyptologist who posse
...mated corpses (zombies) with cannibalistic monsters (ghouls), creating new film monsters more terrifying than either of their predecessors.
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'''''Ghostwatch''''' was a controversial British horror-mockumentary television movie which was produced by the BBC and aired on BB
The 90-minute film was a horror story shot in a documentary style and appeared as part of BBC Drama's ''Scr
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...creatures known as the Ringwraiths has influenced creators of fantasy and horror novels, television shows, and games, who use it with its meaning of a shado
*In the 1986 film "The Wraith", Charlie Sheen plays as Jake Kesey, a man who was brutally mur
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...he creature," "the fiend," or "the wretch." After the novel was adapted to film, the monster became best known in popular imagination as "Frankenstein". Ho
...upon bringing the creature to life, however, Frankenstein flees from it in horror and disavows his experiment. Abandoned, frightened, and completely unaware
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...ong appeared in literature. Haunting is used as a plot device in gothic or horror fiction or, more lately, paranormal-based fiction. Roman-era authors Plautu
* The Amityville Horror (1979 & 2005)
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Other guests wove tales of equal horror, but Mary found herself unable to invent one. That night, however, she had
==Mary Shelley on film==
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...2002)</ref> a leopard,<ref name="wereleopard">Worland, Rick. ''The Horror Film: An Introduction'' (Blackwell Publishing; 2006) pp73, 176–178, 184</ref>
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...a new series, ''[[Night Gallery]]''. Set in a dimly lit museum, the pilot film featured Serling (as on-camera host) introducing three tales of the macabre
...r-series programming wheel titled ''Four in One''), focused more on gothic horror and the occult than did ''The Twilight Zone''. Serling, no longer wanting t
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...ver the years which emphasize different themes of the novel such as gothic horror, science fiction, and romanticism. In this example, an historical anatomica
...culture|popular culture]] and spawned a complete genre of [[horror fiction|horror]] stories and films. Many distinguished authors, such as Brian Aldiss, clai
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'''Anne Rice''' (born October 4th 1941) is a best-selling American author of horror/fantasy books. She was born '''Howard Allen O'Brien'''. Best known for her
===Film===
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* In the film ''Hellboy'', one of the antagonists is a giant hell-hound called Sammael, t
* In the film ''Gabriel'', Sammael is the main antagonist who leads the fallen against th
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*The horror story "The New Wing" by F.R. Welsh deals directly with the Bean legacy, wit
..., which sets the cannibal clan in modern-day America; a 2006 remake of the film was made by Alexandre Aja and Gregory Levasseur and reimagined the cannibal
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