What are the different genres of horror stories? There is psychological horror, killers, monsters, gore and disturbing, paranormal … What are the other types of horror?
@DarkWoods Horror fiction - Wikipedia That’s your start with Stephen King having three types. Looking up the word Horror involves an intense feeling of fear, shock or disgust. Its an abnormal extremely strong feeling of fear and shock even in real life, like looking at a car crash. I understand from your profile Horror is your thing so, probably you know much more than myself. Splitting Genres is common with Horror, but often collides with Thriller. Examples like the ALIEN movie or JAWS perhaps. Horror or Thriller? Monsters, gore, killers all appear in Game of Thrones and LOTR written works and yet I’d never class any of them as horror. So, these are not genres… The Night's Dawn Trilogy - Wikipedia The Wasp Factory - Wikipedia American Psycho - Wikipedia I love Sci-Fi, and read this Night’s Dawn as a young man in the 90s. Its Hard-Core Sci-Fi with a horror theme. Never seen it done before, this well. Worth a real look with it splitting genres. Iain Banks another favourite wrote the WASP FACTORY. Short novel, but that’s horror from a FP POV. And American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis, didn’t lead me to be a banker as such, but an amazing piece of work. Maybe re-word the question. What should all basic Horror stories have in common? A Thriller may steal a scene and use horror, but is a thriller on the whole. What do you class as being a Horror story? Hard question, let us know how you get on…. MartinM.
If you google it, you can find lists of the horror subgenres. Some lists are longer than others. Here's a pretty good one: Horror Subgenres @ Book Riot
