Horror fiction Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
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About Horror fiction
—Hannibal Lecter Horror fiction can be traced to folklore which has existed in virtually all societies around the world. The settings can vary a lot, and be fantastic, historical, contemporary, as well as futuristic. Recurring themes are death and afterlife, the uncanny (the slightly unfamiliar), human instincts, and the unknown.Gothic fiction(which inherited its name from the hardly relatedGothsandGothic architecture) was a literary genre originating in 18th century Britain, as an expression of the romantic movement. Owing in part to the limitations of early motion pictures when it came to "special effects" (and in far more cases, simple limitations of budget) many visual media of horror rarely or never depict the object of horror - a goofy rubber suit might not evoke nearly the sheer ter
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