Is Horror an Emotion?
Webster’s Dictionary defines horror as “painful and intense fear, dread, or dismay.” Basically, really bad fear.
A common definition of the horror genre is “the genre that evokes or aims to evoke fear.” I’ve criticized this definition before, but there’s no denying that fear is central to the horror genre experience.
But is it just fear, or can horror be…
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