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Horror is a genre of speculative fiction that is intended to disturb, frighten, or scare an audience. Horror is often divided into the sub-genres of psychological horror and supernatural horror.
Among the most influential horror films of the 1950s was The Thing From Another World (1951), with Newman stating that countless science fiction horror films of the 1950s would follow in its style, while the film, The Man from Planet X (1951) was still in debt to Universal horror style of filming with a bearded scientist and foggy sets. [66]
Since the 1960s, any work of fiction with a morbid, gruesome, surreal, or exceptionally suspenseful or frightening theme has come to be called "horror". Horror fiction often overlaps science fiction or fantasy, all three categories of which are sometimes placed under the umbrella classification speculative fiction.
Chapter 6 discusses Val Lewton's horror films and Dead of Night. Chapter 7 examines many science fiction films of the 1950s-1960s, particularly horrific ones that have to do with alien invasion, world destruction, and/or space travel. Chapter 8 looks at numerous kinds of horror and science fiction films of the 1950s-1960s from all over the world.
Horror author Stephen King called Lovecraft "the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale." [218] King stated in his semi-autobiographical non-fiction book Danse Macabre that Lovecraft was responsible for his own fascination with horror and the macabre and was the largest influence on his writing. [219]
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Poster for the American psychological horror film The Black Cat (1934). Psychological horror is a subgenre of horror and psychological fiction with a particular focus on mental, emotional, and psychological states to frighten, disturb, or unsettle its audience.
Gothic fiction, sometimes called Gothic horror (primarily in the 20th century), is a loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting. The name refers to the Gothic architecture of the European Middle Ages , which was characteristic of the settings of early Gothic novels.