Questions tagged [horror]
For questions looking to identify a story in the horror genre that also contains elements of science-fiction and fantasy. Always use in conjunction with the [story-identification] tag. Also use for questions about the genre as a whole. Do NOT use to classify works of fiction.
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Why did Father Paul wear the wrong vestments in Midnight Mass?
In Midnight Mass, Father Paul wears the wrong color vestments for his first sermon. He wore his more formal vestments instead of his usual green? I feel this was used as a plot device to alert viewers ...
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Book in which a man or woman visits their hometown for a funeral or holiday and finds it foggy and deserted
I started reading a book that I cannot remember over 20 years ago. I was young so my memory of the book is probably off.
The start of it was a man or woman that was going to visit home for a funeral ...
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Live-action horror short film about a man that saw gore and blood as cake/candy/good instead of disturbing
I remember seeing this short film on YouTube several years ago. It was horror-based, probably fantasy-leaning, but maybe sci-fi; I don't know.
Anyway, it was about this dude that was killing people or ...
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Short story(?) about getting forbidden knowledge in a dream
A recent question about damage from dreams making its way to the waking world (duplicate of Classic short story about a recurring dream of approaching death) reminded me of a children's short story ...
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A Fantasy-horror short story about an old bed-ridden woman who “stole” the body of her young maid, and what ensued
I read this short story in a collection, at least 25 years ago. The collection was quite possibly much older. I think I read it in French, but I am not sure. But if so, the whole collection was ...
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Yellow King inspired book with an Art Dealer
About 10 years ago (2015) I read a book that was likely new at the time. It was a horror-inflected contemporary fantasy about an art dealer that dabbles in the occult and gets sucked into another ...
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Horror novel about a killer robot, with the cover having a metal robot with a cleaver
I was recently referencing Tick Tock to someone talking about Tik-Tok from Return to Oz and looking up the plot to that book made me realize that I was referencing the wrong book. I instead remembered ...
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Horror anthology book, possibly for children, including a story where a boy turns into a tree
The only thing I can seem to remember about it is one specific story about a boy who goes into the woods with his friends. They either see or hear something scary. And they run off. The main character ...
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Does anyone know of a story about the wendigo in English textbooks?
I remember coming across a short story in my 6th grade reading textbook that felt so out of place. It focused on a group of neighborhood boys playing outside on a snowy winter evening, when one of ...
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Older B/W possibly British, Comedy/Horror
The movie was older and British I believe. The most prominent scene that I can recall of the movie is that it is set in a larger estate. The ghosts are looking down from the ceiling attic access. ...
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Novel about a werewolf in a psychiatric facility
Story I read decades ago about a werewolf somehow trapped in a mental facility. Some key characters were a boy who thought he was a viking and the doctor that turned into werewolf at some point. The ...
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Novel where two ships set out to explore the Arctic. Disaster befalls them. There is a demon that appears to be a polar bear
I'm trying to identify this book I read sometime after 2012. It seemed to have been written pretty recently. For much of the novel it appears to just be historical fiction, speculation about what ...
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Story about alien worms invading body in spaceship
I read the beginning of a story at least 10 years ago (I don't think I ever finished it) where a ship was traveling through space. Some (or all?) of the people were in stasis pods and when they woke ...
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Horror movie where a small town's population is killed and reanimated by a mad scientist while a detective tries to solve the cases
I vividly remember watching this about 6 years ago on Amazon, it looked like it came out in the 70's-80's, and the movie centers around a police detective trying to solve a series of murders/...
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Does anyone know a graphic novel book about a swamp monster/ alien that’s not the “ creature from the black lagoon”?
I found the book back in 2004 when I was a children. I remember the book was in black and white , I believe only the letters for the title were red. It was about a swamp monster or lake monster that ...
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