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Dark fantasy, also called fantasy horror, is a subgenre of fantasy literary, artistic, and cinematic works that incorporates disturbing and frightening themes. The term is ambiguously used to describe stories that combine horror elements with one or other of the standard formulas of fantasy.
Historically, the divination ritual encouraged young women to walk up a flight of stairs backward holding a candle and a hand mirror, in a darkened house. As they gazed into the mirror, they were supposed to be able to catch a view of their future husband's face. [1]
Poster for the film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), one of the first art horror films. Art horror or arthouse horror (sometimes called elevated horror) [1] [2] [3] is a sub-genre of both horror films and art-films.
The word creepypasta first appeared on 4chan, an online imageboard, around 2007.It is a variant of copypasta (from "copy and paste"), another 4chan term which refers to blocks of text which become viral by being copied widely around the internet.
An image of the Melissa computer virus created by Ukrainian artist Stepan Ryabchenko in 2011. Irrational Geometrics' digital art installation, 2008 by Pascal Dombis Digital art refers to any artistic work or practice that uses digital technology as part of the creative or presentation process.
Basic principle of a jump-scare in its early form as a jack-in-the-box.Illustration of the Harper's Weekly magazine from 1863. A jump scare (also written jump-scare and jumpscare) is a scaring technique used in media, particularly in films such as horror films and video games such as horror games, intended to scare the viewer by surprising them with a creepy face, usually co-occurring with a ...
Analog horror could be regarded as a form or descendant of creepypasta legends. [18] Many creepypastas anticipated analog horror's themes and presentation: Ben Drowned and NES Godzilla Creepypasta, among others, featured manipulated or contrived footage of "haunted" media, and Candle Cove, a creepypasta from 2009, focused on a mysterious television broadcast.
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a series of three collections of short horror stories for children, written by Alvin Schwartz and originally illustrated by Stephen Gammell.