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...shed in the daily ''Suara Merdeka'' in the 1990s in Indonesia. A Genderuwo horror film released in 2007 in Indonesia also borrows many elements from the gend
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...ed as a character in an episode of the Showtime horror series ''Masters of Horror''. It originally aired in North America on December 9, 2005 and was directe
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* The Tecmo horror series Fatal Frame shows hitodama being released from spirits that the play
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...o leave for work, but instead stayed behind to spy on his new wife. To his horror, he saw his wife’s hair part on the back of her head, her skull split wid
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In 2008, the 86-minute horror feature The Wild Man of the Navidad was made. It was written and directed b
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''Jangan Pandang Belakang'' (or, Don't Look Back) is a Malay horror movie based on the "hantu raya" demon. The story is about a young man named
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...dered by many literary critics to be one of the greatest masters of horror fiction.
...try to the world through the mind of a children's writer. In its fusion of horror with awe, ''Midnight Sun'' shows the influence of [[Algernon Blackwood]] an
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...His heroes are usually young, rather cynical men, whose fight against the horror is abetted by the growth of a strong sexual relationship.
...r novels, influenced by the science fiction works of [[John Wyndham]]. The horror - mutant man-eating rats in the first, an accidentally released chemical we
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...rn February 19, 1963) is an American [[horror fiction|horror]] and science fiction/[[fantasy]] writer. She was born in Heber Springs, Arkansas but grew up in
...istory (a subset of [[science fiction]]), [[fantasy]], or [[Horror fiction|horror]]. The dialog and hard-boiled first-person viewpoint has been compared to
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*In some Japanese horror movies (most notably Ring and Ju-on) onryo are the driving force in the plo
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...Picture of Dorian Gray''. Masterton was also the editor of Scare Care, a horror anthology published for the benefit of abused children in Europe and the US
Masterton's novels often contain visceral sex and horror and arguably misogynistic overtones (for example, The House That Jack Built
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...ster of Glamis''' (born October 21, 1821), sometimes referred to as the '''Horror of Glamis''', was allegedly a deformed member of the Bowes-Lyon family, kep
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...on shows dealing with the supernatural. In 2008, for its annual "Halloween Horror Nights" events, Universal Studios Florida developed a new variation of the
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'''Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter''' is a series of '''horror fiction'''/'''dark fantasy''' novels created by author [[Laurell K. Hamilton]] and
In the fiction Anita Blake is also known as ''the Executioner''.
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*In the survival horror video game Silent Hill, the Flauros is a mystical pyramid-shaped object. It
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Some works of fiction had taken "Legion" as the proper name of a demon. For example, William Pete
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However, the vampire hunter has found popularity in fiction and popular culture.
...[[Abraham Van Helsing]] of the novel ''[[Dracula]]'' and in other works of fiction adapting or modifying that work. Other more recent figures include [[Buffy
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...plot device in gothic or horror fiction or, more lately, paranormal-based fiction. Roman-era authors Plautus, Pliny the Younger and Lucian wrote stories abou
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...a type of physically manifested [[undead]] often found in fantasy, horror fiction, and mythical art. Though most are human skeletons, they can also be from a
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...ost cultures and in many works of fiction, especially fantasy and [[horror fiction]].
In fiction and folklore, undead creatures are often hostile toward the living. Defendi
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...Boris Karloff. The film, directed by Mark Robson and produced by legendary horror producer Val Lewton, centres around a group of people on a small island, wh
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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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* Biollante's wailing cry was used for a scene in the J-Horror sequel ''Ring 2'', where the protagonists make contact with the afterlife.
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...ates dread among the living. Zombies have become a staple of modern horror fiction, where they usually engage in the consumption of human flesh. The term "zom
==Zombies in literature and fiction==
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...Books; 2002)</ref> a leopard,<ref name="wereleopard">Worland, Rick. ''The Horror Film: An Introduction'' (Blackwell Publishing; 2006) pp73, 176–178, 184</
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...ven to the distinctive series of horror films, suspense films, and science fiction films made by Universal Studios in California from 1923 to 1960. The appr
Universal's earliest success in the horror genre was the costume picture ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' in 1923. Sta
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...truck driver will look over at his beautiful passenger and discover to his horror that she has goat's legs - like the god of mischief Pan. At this point the
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...and folklore-inspired art and literature, particularly manga and Japanese horror. The man to whom most of the credit should go for keeping yōkai in the pop
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...[[United States|American]] [[screenwriter]], most famous for his [[science fiction]] [[television series|TV series]], ''[[The Twilight Zone]]''. The second o
...himself into weekly television. He stated in an interview that the science fiction format would not be controversial and would escape censorship unlike the ea
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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
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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
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==Ghouls in fiction==
In modern fiction, ghouls are often confused with other types of [[undead]], usually the mind
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...Lovecraft's revision story "The Last Test" (1928); however, in Lovecraft's fiction, she is never actually described, but is frequently mentioned or called upo
...God Pan'' (1890), a story that probably inspired Lovecraft's "The Dunwich Horror" (1929). In this incarnation, the Black Goat may represent [[Satan]] in the
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Today shinigami frequently appear in original Japanese works of fiction (anime and manga most often). However, Shinigami may also be used more loos
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...ature]]s that frequently appear in [[mythology]], [[legend]], and [[horror fiction]]. The word originates from the Old French ''monstre'', which derived from
...en science and monstrosity became an important theme in many Victorian-era horror novels, where science was often depicted not merely as studying monsters, b
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==In Later Mythos Fiction==
* The horror-themed miniatures game HorrorClix has a Mi-Go as a unique figure in its ''T
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'''Science fiction''' is a genre of fiction in which at least part of the narrative depends on the impact of science, e
...<ref>''Science Fiction: Its Nature, Faults and Virtues'' in ''The Science Fiction Novel: Imagination and Social Criticism'', Advent: Publishers, 1959. (This
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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
...ia on August 5, 1972. Rice has said that Claudia, the child in her vampire fiction, was inspired by her late daughter. Their son Christopher Rice, now a novel
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Lovecraft referenced fictional works in his [[horror fiction]], a practice used by earlier writers (such as [[Edgar Allan Poe]]) and com
...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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...AmityvilleHorrorCover.jpg|185px|right|thumb|This cover of ''The Amityville Horror'' stresses its claim to be based on fact]]
The '''Amityville Horror''' (- A True Story) is a best-selling book written by Jay Anson, and publis
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Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens ("Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror" in German) is a German Expressionist film shot in 1921 by Friedrich Wilhel
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...ia) is an American writer. He is best known as a prolific and best-selling fiction author of popular suspense novels.
...ublished in 1968. From there he went on to write over a dozen more science fiction novels.
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Herbert Bautista plays a teenager in a faraway province in an episode of this horror anthology movie series. A manananggal is said to live within the vicinity a
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...ity, "Kutulu" comes from [[Necronomicon|Simon's Necronomicon]], which is a fiction based loosely on Sumerian mythology, among other things. ''Cthulhu'' is oft
...S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz call the "anti-mythology" of Lovecraft's fiction. In most [[mythology|mythologies]], man's significance in the universe is v
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* In the survival horror game ''Silent Hill'', The Mark of Samael is the name Dahlia Gillespie false
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...without a luckless family mourning for the loved one snatched away by some horror that had descended from the mountains.
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...oe, and so walked resolutely yet slowly forward. He soon discovered to his horror that the gruesome creature approaching him was no other than the dreaded Nu
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...ich emphasize different themes of the novel such as gothic horror, science fiction, and romanticism. In this example, an historical anatomical painting of the
...d authors, such as Brian Aldiss, claim that it is the very first [[science fiction]] novel.
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<br/>—H. P. Lovecraft, "The Horror in the Museum"
...he [[Greek mythology|Greek pantheon]] than the cosmic group of Lovecraft's fiction.<ref>Robert M. Price, recognizing that Smith's gods dwell beneath [[Hyperbo
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==Ghosts in fiction==
...in a way reminiscent of the [[Guardian angel (spirit)|guardian angel]] in fiction. In some fictions, a departed relative (usually) or friend guides the livin
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