Cyclopaedia 22 – Horror By T.R. Knight (InnRoads Ministries * Article Series)
Overview have tried to focus on the core elements of horror. Items with a * have been or will be Horror focuses on frightening, startling, and broken out in their own Cyclopaedia articles scaring through building up our feelings of because the topics are so diverse in their terror via words, sounds, and/or images. own right, often spinning their own tales. Works of fiction and cinema build within our imagination a frightening atmosphere then • Cthulhu Mythos shock or revile us in a sudden revelation of • Demonic fear. • Ghost Stories • Gothic* Horror exists throughout history. From its • Kaiju* simplest and earliest elements, it is the • Macabre stories told to frighten, especially children. • Slasher Many early fables, myths, and legends were • Splatter horror stories meant to scare the listeners • Zombie* into following a particular path. Following are sources of information Literature found readers through horror pertaining to Horror to assist prospective because it captured emotions and drew game masters, game designers, writers, and readers in. The heart gets pumping and the storytellers in knowing where to start their adrenaline starts flowing as they worry what research. will come on the next page. The early pulp tales and later comic books really found an Articles audience seeking escapism from the real world horrors. Frightening Fiction: Beyond Horror From there, cinema took off, sometimes By Reynolds, Kimberley focusing on the suspense leading to an Source: The New review of children's emotional scare, while others delved into the literature and librarianship, Vol. 11, No. 2 violence to shock and awe viewers into (2005), p. 152-161, emotional outbursts. Music of the Night: Horror's Soundtracks From ghost stories told around the campfire By Peter Hutchings to heart pounding, blood fests in movies, we Source: Sound and music in film and visual truly enjoy scaring ourselves through our media, S. 219-230 entertainment. What scares you? The Nature of Horror Horror sub-genres? By Carroll, Noel Source: The journal of aesthetics and art The Horror genre covers so many sub- criticism / American Society for Aesthetics. genres and themes. Within this article, I Ed. Thomas Munro. 46.1987, 51-59.
Cyclopaedia 22 – Horror Page 1 of 4 Books John Dies at the End By Wong, David
American Psycho The Keep By Ellis, Bret Easton By Wilson, F. Paul
The Amityville Horror The King in Yellow By Anson, Jay By Chambers, Robert W.
At the Mountains of Madness Metamorphosis By Lovecraft, H.P. By Kafka, Franz
Books of Blood The Omen By Barker, Clive By Seltzer, David
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories Psycho By Lovecraft, H.P. By Bloch, Robert
Carrie The Ritual By King, Stephen By Nevill, Adam
The Complete Tales and Poems Rosemary’s Baby By Poe, Edgar Allan By Levin, Ira
The Exorcist The Shining By Blatty, William Peter By King, Stephen
Ghost Story The Silence of the Lambs By Straub, Peter By Harris, Thomas
The Girl Next Door Something Wicked This Way Comes By Ketchum, Jack By Bradbury, Ray
The Haunting of Hill House The Stepford Wives By Jackson, Shirley By Levin, Ira
Interview with the Vampire The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Rice, Anne By Stevenson, Robert Louis
The Island of Dr. Moreau The Terror By Wells, H.G. By Simmons, Dan
It The Turn of the Screw By King, Stephen By James, Henry
Jaws Watchers By Benchley, Peter By Koontz, Dean
Cyclopaedia 22 – Horror Page 2 of 4 Games SOMA – Computer Game Tides of Madness - Tabletop Game Alone in the Dark - Computer Game Trail of Cthulhu - RPG Amnesia - Computer Game Unknown Armies – RPG A Touch of Evil - Tabletop Game Until Dawn - Computer Game Arkham Horror - Tabletop Game World of Darkness - RPG Betrayal At House On The Hill - Tabletop Game Beyond the Supernatural - RPG Cinema Bloodborne - Computer Game The Bloody Inn - Tabletop Game 10 Cloverfield Lane Buffy the Vampire Slayer - RPG Alien Call of Cthulhu - RPG American Horror Story - TV Camp Grizzly - Tabletop Game An American Werewolf in London Chill - RPG The Amityville Horror Claustrophobia - Tabletop Game Ash vs Evil Dead - TV Chronicles of Darkness - RPG Attack on Titan - Anime Dark Conspiracy - RPG Bates Motel - TV Dead Space – Computer Game The Birds Dread - RPG The Blair Witch Project Elder Sign - Tabletop Game Buffy the Vampire Slayer - TV Eldritch Horror - Tabletop Game The Cabin in the Woods Eternal Darkness - Computer Game Carrie Fearsome Floors - Tabletop Game Cat People Ghost Stories - Tabletop Game The Cell Gloom - Tabletop Game Children of the Corn Kult - RPG The Conjuring Last Friday - Tabletop Game Dark Water Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deck The Dead Zone Building Game - Tabletop Game Event Horizon Letters from Whitechapel - Tabletop Game The Evil Dead Little Fears - RPG The Exorcist Mansions of Madness - Tabletop Game Eyes Without A Face Mr. Jack - Tabletop Game Flatliners Nephilim - RPG The Fall of the House of Usher The Others - Tabletop Game Friday the 13th Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu - Tabletop Fright Night Game Fringe - TV Resident Evil - Computer Game The Fly Room 25 - Tabletop Game Grimm - TV Shadow Hunters - Tabletop Game Halloween Silent Hill - Computer Game Hannibal - TV
Cyclopaedia 22 – Horror Page 3 of 4 The Haunting The Thing Hellraiser The Twilight Zone - TV Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Anime Twin Peaks - TV Hollow Man Videodrome House on Haunted Hill Village of the Damned House of Wax The Wicker Man The Innocents The X-Files – TV Invasion of the Body Snatchers The Island of Dr. Moreau It Locations It Comes At Night Jaws The Keep Goblinhaus Horror & Haunted Attraction Masters of Horror - TV Convention Calendar Maximum Overdrive http://www.goblinhaus.com/conventions.ht Misery m The Mist A Nightmare on Elm Street The Hollywood Horror Museum The Omen http://www.hollywoodhorror.org/ The Others Peeping Tom Penny Dreadful - TV People Phantasm Pitch Black Clive Barker Poltergeist Tobin Bell Psycho Bruce Campbell The Re-Animator Lon Chaney [Rec] Lon Chaney Jr. Resident Evil Peter Chush Ring Jamie Lee Curtis The Ring Robert Englund Rosemary's Baby Doug Jones Scream Boris Karloff Scream Queens - TV Stephen King The Shining sir Christopher Lee Silence of the Lambs Peter Lorre The Strain - TV H.P. Lovecraft Stranger Things - TV Bela Lugosi Supernatural - TV Edgar Allan Poe Suspiria Vincent Price Tales From the Crypt - TV Anne Rice The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Zelda Rubinstein Theater of Blood Max Von Sydow
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