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Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Horror fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | Horror fiction is, broadly, fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle or horrify the reader. |
| | Horror fiction often overlaps with science fiction and/or fantasy, all of which have been placed under the umbrella category speculative fiction. |
| | Modern horror fiction found its roots in the gothic novels that exploded into popularity in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, typified by Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto. |
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