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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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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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 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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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 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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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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90s/early 2000s horror movie
It's somewhat generic, with a girl and guy in their 20s. They learn this demonic monster is after them and will kill them. There is a sex scene between them. Then, following this scene, the girl is ...
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A Housewife's Brain is Put in a Computer and goes Skynet
I read this book back when I was very interested in Mind Uploads. Books like the Silicon Man, Mindscan, The Turring Option, Demon Seed, The Modular Man.
I believe this book was printed before 2005. ...
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Kids' horror book from the early 2000s in the USA: "House of — and —"
I'm trying to remember the name of this book. It was in my elementary school library in the USA (2004-2008), but it looked older and had yellowed pages.
It was a horror chapter book, I think, but the ...
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What is this horror movie, in which a group of 4 or 5 people are slowly picked off by a monster in a forest
It was a horror movie that took place in the forest. There was maybe a group of 4 or 5, and people were slowly getting picked off by a monster. I think one guy ended up getting impaled onto a tree ...
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Short story: weird light beam eats sick cow
I read this science fiction/horror short story in an SF anthology probably in the late 1970s. The stories in it could easily have been older: 1960s or even 1950s, though likely not much older than ...
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"The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction" short story in which a deadly monster (no doubt out of some Native American legend) stalks the countryside
I'm trying to identify the title/author of a "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction" short story in which a deadly monster (no doubt out of some Native American legend) stalks the ...
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Children's(?) novel about vampires. Grandmother is potentially possessed
I read it well over 15 years ago, around when I was 10, but don't know how old the book was back then.
There are 2 moments in the book that I remember:
The grandmother (or an elderly woman that the ...
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Short fiction : a couple of survivors of a shipwreck reach an island where mold is consuming them. Husband gets some help from a ship that passes by [duplicate]
I read this horror short story (or novelette ?) more than 30 years ago, probably in a collection. I think read it in French, but I am not sure, and in any case it might well have been a translation.
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An obscure movie with the old lady as killer
I watched this when I was very young
and I don't remember the title. But I
clearly remember a lot of details
The movie begins when the husband goes
fishing despite the wife's warnings;
She had a ...
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Horror movie, woman has vague visions of future murders
I'm trying to identify a horror movie I watched a long time ago on television; don't remember exactly, but for sure between 2005 and 2015.
It had a really eerie vibe—definitely a thriller with horror ...
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How was the snapping sound created for the bookshelf scene in "The Blob"?
While I watched The Blob (1988), I saw the scene where Deputy Briggs was pulled through the bookshelf in the town hall in Arborville, California.
Relevant clip
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I need help finding a short story about a man and woman who want to become philosophical zombies
I've thought about this off and on for years, and it's driving me crazy. Years and years ago (sometime between 2004 and 2012, but probably 2005-2009) I read a horror story online about a narrator that'...
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Horror film with kids in a van hunted by a killer who shoved worms in their mouths
I need help with a movie that had a group of friends in a van getting stuck in a desert town.
I remember this movie as a kid (born in 02) from the early 2000s. My parents rented the film and watched ...
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1970s Sci-fi Horror comic book where space explorers visit a planet and slowly become plantlike aliens
I read a comic book somewhere between 1975 and 1978, that I thought had a painted style cover similar to those made by Gold Key.
The story I remember was of space explorers who visited an alien planet ...
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Short horror story about a frog moving around under the skin (causing the afflicted to be crippled) that can be passed on
It was a short horror story in a paperback collection of scifi/fantasy works, probably from 1970s-ish? I wish I could remember for sure what other stories were with it, but I know I read a lot of Ray ...
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Trying to identify a space (horror?) movie with astronauts that had skulls as their heads
As a kid I remember watching a space (horror?) movie that had astronauts with skulls as their heads. The astronauts had a blue or red glow inside the helmet which showed their skull head.
I vaguely ...
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Sci Fi movie from 70s where an alien plant would burn space explorers
I saw part of a sci fi movie on paid cable around 1980. In the movie were space explorers on an alien planet where when they were outside, alone, a plant like creature would come up from the ground ...
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Dark Fantasy/Sci-Fi Trilogy about an immortal woman who tells her life story
The trilogy I'm trying to remember, I began on accident around 2018. It was dark and captivating.
I believe it starts out with a woman being admitted to a hospital somewhere in North America (maybe ...
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80s/90s horror movie where a teenager was trying to get out of pink slime, but can't
What was the movie where a football teenager was trying to get out of the pink slime in the doctor's office, but dissolving?
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