HORROR

Elaborated by : karen
Villamil – Valentina Lopez
– Jorge Sanchez – Lucas
Burbano
DEFINITION
• A genre of fiction or other
artistic work evoking
suspense and horror,
especially through the
depiction of gruesome or
supernatural elements.
• And An intense, painful
feeling of repugnance and
fear.
HISTORY
The first depictions of
supernatural events appear in
several of the silent shots created
by the film pioneer Georges
Méliès in the late 1890s, the best
known being Le Manoir du
Diable, which is sometimes
credited as being the first horror
film. Another of his horror projects
was La Caverne maudite (1898)
(a.k.a. The Cave of the Demons,
literally "the accursed cave").
Japan made early forays into the
horror genre with Bake Jizo (Jizo
the Spook) and Shinin no Sosei
(Resurrection of a Corpse), both
made in 1898.
CREATOR
• Howard Phillips Lovecraft was
an American writer who
achieved posthumous fame
through his influential works of
horror fiction. He was virtually
unknown and published only
in pulp magazines before he
died in poverty, but he is now
regarded as one of the most
significant 20th-century
authors in his genre.
CHARACTERISTICS
One of the defining traits of the
genre of horror is that it provokes a
response; emotional, psychological
or physical, within readers that
causes them to react with fear. One
of H.P. Lovecraft's most famous
quotes about the genre is that: "The
oldest and strongest emotion of
mankind is fear, and the oldest and
strongest kind of fear is fear of the
unknown." the first sentence from his
seminal essay, "Supernatural Horror
in Literature"