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Topic: Horror (emotion)

	IS 590: A Few Thoughts on the Horror Genre
		Horror is a certain mood or atmosphere that might be found in a variety of places.
		Since horror fiction is often rejected by many adults that may make it more appealing to some readers who see it as a literature of protest and one that challenges ordinary conventions and normality.
		Horror fiction is not as popular as the other genres so there is less demand for it in libraries and book stores.
	web.utk.edu /~wrobinso/590_lec_horror.html (2974 words)

	Horror (emotion) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Horror is the feeling of dread and anticipation that usually occurs before something frightening is seen, heard, or otherwise experienced.
		Compare: the experience of waiting for a scary monster to jump out of the closet (horror) with the experience of actually seeing the scary monster after it has jumped out (terror).
		Horror is also a genre of film and fiction that relies on scaring the audience as its main attraction.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Horror_(emotion) (203 words)

	Horror Writers Association - What is Horror?
		Webster's Collegiate Dictionary gives the primary definition of horror as "a painful and intense fear, dread, or dismay." It stands to reason then that "horror fiction" is fiction that elicits those emotions in the reader.
		Horror is an emotion." He was correct and his words have become a rallying cry for the modern horror writer.
		What makes horror literature so pervasive is that its need to evoke the necessary atmosphere and sense of emotional dread is utterly dependent on who we are as readers -- as people.
	www.horror.org /horror-is.htm (1275 words)

	Supernatural Horror In Literature by H.P. Lovecraft : Arthur's Classic Novels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Against it are discharged all the shafts of a materialistic sophistication which clings to frequently felt emotions and external events, and of a naively insipid idealism which deprecates the aesthetic motive and calls for a didactic literature to " uplift " the reader toward a suitable degree of smirking optimism.
		Mysterious sounds, opened doors, frightful legends, and a nameless horror in a niche behind a fl veil all operate in quick succession to unnerve the heroine and her faithful attendant, Annette; but finally, after the death of her aunt, she escapes with the aid of a fellow-prisoner whom she has discovered.
		Supernatural horror, then, is never a primarily object with Hawthorne; though its impulses were so deeply woven into his personality that he cannot help suggesting it with the force of genius when he calls upon the unreal world to illustrate the pensive sermon he wishes to preach.
	arthurwendover.com /arthurs/horror/supern10.html (15661 words)

	[Simegen-L] What is Horror? (was Chronology)
		Horror believes, > along > > with Nietsche, that the common meaning of "good" equals "stupid." > Horror > > believes that evil is the strongest force in the universe, and > therefore > > may be temporarily contained, but never completely vanquished.
		I was talking about horror as a genre of literature--what Jacqueline and I have been accused of doing in Sime~Gen. The statement was not that one particular work is horror, but that the entire universe is horror, which it emphatically is not.
		The basis for a potential horror novel has been established in the Endowment--the potential for succumbing to "the dark side" if a person's powers are not controllable even by himself.
	www.simegen.com /pipermail/simegen-l/Week-of-Mon-20020805/007372.html (2082 words)

	The Emotions
		Since emotions are not acts of will, they are not freely chosen, but occur spontaneously, which is why a "crime of passion" is less severe than a crime of calculation, as less under control of the will -- and it is, of course, acts of will that are morally praiseworthy or blameworthy.
		The cognitive and situational component of emotion means that emotions are as varied as the circumstances of life, which means that the range and variety of emotions is great and complex -- as can be seen in the accompanying tables at left and right.
		Self-deception in emotion requires the suppression of the emotion, which may be difficult and result in various unpleasant and unexpected symptoms.
	www.friesian.com /emotion.htm (2189 words)

	Supernatural Horror in Literature
		I. and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
		Against it are discharged all the shafts of a materialistic sophistication which clings to frequently felt emotions and external events, and of a naïvely insipid idealism which deprecates the æsthetic motive and calls for a didactic literature to "uplift" the reader toward a suitable degree of smirking optimism.
		Supernatural horror, then, is never a primarily object with Hawthorne; though its impulses were so deeply woven into his personality that he cannot help suggesting it with the force of genius when he calls upon the unreal world to illustrate the pensive sermon he wishes to preach.
	www.writerscramp.ca /docs/supernatural_horror.htm (15792 words)

	Horror, Horror Film.
		Horror is the feeling of revulsion that usually occurs after something frightening is seen, heard, or otherwise experienced.
		Disgust is an emotion that is typically associated with things that are perceived as unclean, inedible or infectious.
		The difference between Terror and Horror is the difference between awful apprehension and sickening realization: between the smell of death and stumbling against a corpse.
	www.rrfrankenstein.com (317 words)

	Definition Horror Fiction Genre: Find me an author
		Horror fiction often overlaps with science fiction and fantasy, all of which form the umbrella category.
		The Horror fiction genre requires that the reader engages in a conspiracy that agrees to suspend the rules of everyday.
		The horror novel has a rich background with such early advocates of the horror form being H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe, who were also considered to be masters of the art.
	www.findmeanauthor.com /definition_horror_fiction_genre.htm (565 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on William Noble - Conflict, Action and Suspense at Epinions.com
		Horror fiction is defined by emotion, which means that it can overlap with other types of writing such as fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and so on.
		Horror/fantasy is called "dark fantasy." Since the word "horror" tends to be associated with the slasher-genre, publishers go out of their way to label their horror by any other name in the hopes that it will sell better without that word attached to it.
		Emotion is inherent in all good fiction, whether that emotion is horror or joy or heartbreak.
	www.epinions.com /content_90481266308 (1672 words)

	Steven Jay Schneider \| Dark Thoughts: Philosophic Reflections on Cinematic Horror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The emotional effects it has on audiences, the mysterious metaphysics of its impossible beings, the controversial ethics of its violent aesthetic— these are just a few of the concerns to have drawn the attention of scholars and students alike...
		The horror of Day of Wrath is the horror of transcendence as the religious spirit reveals itself in witchburning, and in the oppression and stifling of what the French art and film critic, J-L Schefer, would call the “enigmatic body” of Anne.
		But I want to depart from the voluminous literature on horror in books and movies (sometimes in paintings and poems) by focusing first of all on real horror, that is, horror in real life, and only then consider the nature of art-horror, horror provoked by the make-believe.
	members.bellatlantic.net /~sschneid/Dark.htm (4901 words)

	emotion
		The emotion like "anger" is all the times you had this emotion in life, not just one instance in your life.
		One of the cardinal rules is you stay with one emotion and one objective until something occurs to change it.
		Emotionalism is not the emotion of the character.
	www.abwag.com /emotion.htm (538 words)

	Burning Void--Roleplayers' Resources--Game Masters: What Is Horror?
		The new T-shirt of the Horror Writers' Association has a quote on the back by Douglas Winter that begins with "Horror is not a genre" and ends with "horror is an emotion." Horror carries a whole load of emotional implications that science fiction and fantasy don't.
		The horror of "Principia Malefex" is primarily that of the modern world; it's meant to be a low-supernatural game.
		Horror needs to hit close to home, but it also needs to leave the audience with at least a little personal comfort, a way of feeling distanced.
	www.burningvoid.com /pipermail/void/2000q3/000001.html (1469 words)

	The world's top Horror websites
		The history of horror movies by decade, with sections on the Silent Era, the monsters, directors, and top 100 films.
		Horror movie characters battle it out to be the best of the best.
		Horror film history, reviews and biographies of people involved in the genre.
	dirs.org /dir-wiki.cfm/Top/Arts/Movies/Genres/Horror (941 words)

	The Thing PS2 Review
		John Carpenter's The Thing was a master creature thriller, a confining tale of body horror, shock emotion and tense paranoia.
		Because of the emotional investment the game asked you to place into these characters, and the disturbing nature of their deaths, the result was a game that pushed the limits of acceptability and taboo.
		A really odd ingredient is the use of thought bubbles, floating icons, and desktop-like shortcut icons as a system for talking with the other marines as well as interacting with the game environments.
	www.gamenationtv.com /reviews/thething.shtml (1185 words)

	Psychological horror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Psychological horror is horror (emotion) based on knowledge and situation as opposed to horror based on gore and fright.
		This is made more explicit in that many horror films are not based on psychological horror using instead cheap fright and gore to thrill the audience.
		Nevertheless, the disgusting elements are often present in psychological horror and often add to the horror.
	read-and-go.hopto.org /Horror/Psychological-horror.html (105 words)

	George Stade
		A second oddity of horror, as distinct from terror or disgust, is that what it evokes is frequently as attractive as it is repulsive; there is as much fascination as dread.
		My guess is that as terror evolved as the emotional concomitant to a material danger to life and limb, horror evolved as the emotional concomitant to the breaking of a taboo.
		The emotion of horror, then, would be a signal that we are indulging actually or imaginatively in something we have forbidden ourselves in compliance with an internalized group prohibition.
	www.college.columbia.edu /cct/sep99/25a.html (925 words)

	The Writing Show » Writing Horror, with Marty Young
		The definition of horror in that goes “Horror is a strong feeling caused by something frightful or shocking.” And also there’s another writer, Douglas E. Winter, who said in Primeval, I think it was, his introduction to Primeval, that horror is not a genre; horror is an emotion.
		Okay, it might be an emotional experience, but I think horror literature is that which seeks to draw out and exploit those feelings in whichever way the writer chooses to make them the focus of the character’s journey through the story.
		Stories that might have been classified as horror in the past are called something totally different now, basically because there are preconceptions of that little word “horror.” There are still a lot of horror stories out there, but now they might be dark fantasy or speculative fiction or even crime.
	writingshow.com /?page_id=73 (6035 words)

	eGoth.com - The Gothic Resource Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		An important medium between the goth scene and gothic literature is the modern popular horror genre, in which the Horror filmhorror film is paramount.
		Imagery from horror films and television, especially the figure of the vampire and even camp horror B films such as Plan 9 From Outer Space have had significant influence on the evolution of Gothic fashion.
		The interconnection between horror and goth was highlighted in its early days by The Hunger, a 1983 vampire film, starring David Bowie, which featured gothic rock group Bauhaus' performing Bela Lugosi's Dead in a nightclub.
	www.egoth.com /wiki.pl/Goth (840 words)

	Horror Writing for Children
		That the horror genre focuses attention on the darker side of life and seeks to make an entertainment of things we would rather not entertain in 'reality' should be a descriptive statement, not an evaluative one.
		The modern trend in horror fiction merely reflects the same needs as are reflected in the inordinate violence and morbidity to be found in folklore, traditional stories, urban legends and 'fairy tales' from as far back in human history as we can see.
		In short, as a horror writer you can't depict genuine horrors so realistically that your young and impressionable audience is traumatised and develops fears that they transport into their everyday life.
	www.roberthood.net /scribbls/children.htm (2567 words)

	231material (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		First of all, the emotions that Bernays and his defenders take to be bad (terror, pity and other ones often connected with violence and sex) were not viewed as unalloyed evils by Aristotle (though, they were by Plato).
		You can recognize the emotion you are feeling, wonder how you ought to respond to it and wonder whether or not the character on the screen is reacting appropriately.
		Not only is there a realization of a purified emotional state in the process of watching a film or reading a novel but there is (in the case of good ones) often a clarification of some idea about how things work, how things ought to work, how lives ought to be lived.
	www.calpoly.edu /~tscriven/231material (2943 words)

	The H. P. Lovecraft Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
		Supernatural horror, then, is never a primary object with Hawthorne; though its impulses were so deeply woven into his personality that he cannot help suggesting it with the force of genius when he calls upon the unreal world to illustrate the pensive sermon he wishes to preach.
		In the end horror overtakes her in a manner deftly prefigured by an anecdote in the prologue, but she poisons herself in time.
	filebox.vt.edu /~asnel/lovecraft/super.html (16474 words)

	Paul Nervy Notes
		Your natural emotional state is primary in determining your philosophy of life.
		There is an emotion that is not captured by words like depression or horror.
		The emotion I refer to is when you look around and things are tinged or shaded with an air of sinister malevolence.
	www.paulnervy.com /pnn153.html (1848 words)

	Supernatural Horror In Literature by H. P. Lovecraft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Supernatural horror, then, is never a primary object with Hawthorne; though its impulses were so deeply woven into his personality that he cannot help suggesting it with the force of genius when he calls upon the unreal world to illustrate the pensive sermon he wishes to preach.
		In the end horror overtakes her in a manner deftly prefigured by an anecdote in the prologue, but she poisons herself in time.
		That strange night in the study the professor invoked "the awful transmutation of the hills" by the aid of the fl seal, and aroused in the hybrid idiot the horrors of his shocking paternity.
	sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu /~wcoburn/hpl/super.html (16785 words)

	Horror
		There are chapters that go into detail of horrors committed to and by people, which is fine, except there is no need to tell about their background when they are only in the story to show the reader what they are doing in the immediate time.
		As her family and friends watch in horror, a normal, albeit bratty child is turned into a monster who is capable of saying the most shocking and hurtful words.
		It elevates her to a master horror writer, with skillful language and tone creating a sense of terror more than the actual events.
	www.huntressreviews.com /horror.htm (15414 words)

	Day of the Dead - Movie Info \| BLOODY-DISGUSTING.COM
		this was the first dead film i saw and i saw it at the age of 10 and it made me a fan of the horror genre and the zombie genre especially from there on.
		It wasn't until i was around 11 that i saw it and it gave me a warm fuzzy feeling for horror movies and zombies.
		Romero faced this fact: He had filmed two of the best horror movies of all time, and the end of the trilogy had to be done.
	www.bloody-disgusting.com /film/90 (2344 words)

	Scream Oueen Suzi Lorraine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Horror movies are about drama, and crazy chase scenes, fights, interactions...
		It also helps to love the horror genre I grew up on the stuff ever since I was a baby I was watching horror movies.
		Jhon: With clashes of Horror movie characters, Jason vs Freddy and Predator vs. Alien in the near future.
	www.friendsofthejoeflynnshow.primetap.com /custom4.html (1185 words)

	Horror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		I no longer think that it is the supernatural element which makes a novel into horror fiction or not, but rather that it is the focus and aims of the author.
		The basic plot of the various Alien films staring Sigourney Weaver involves a woman on a spaceship being chased by an alien monster that is trying to kill her.
		The main reason I now think that there is more to horror than the supernatural is that there are many more things that scare us, and a good horror writer can find fear in sometimes unexpected places.
	fmwriters.com /Visionback/issue7/horror.htm (818 words)

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