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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Horror movie set in the Southern US involving a woman in hospital and her psychic son
I remember watching this movie on cable around 2008 to 2010. The movie was probably less than five years old when I saw it.
It took place in the Southern US--I'm thinking Bayou Country--but was ...
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Very old horror short story about a dead man waking up
A dead man wakes up because his cemetery is being plowed up so they can build something there (apartments, houses, a parking lot?). I think the man kills the person running the bulldozer or backhoe? ...
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An impending autopsy on a totally paralyzed person who is still alive [closed]
I'm looking for an anthology of horror stories written in the 1970s that contained a story about a person (a man?) who was on a table and was scheduled for an impending autopsy. The person was fully ...
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Horror movie about people getting a radio message they don’t understand
Looking for a sci-fi/horror movie from 1970’s or early 80’s. The only thing I can remember is a group of people keep getting a radio message that they don’t understand that turns out being a warning ...
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Old horror movie about a ship and the end of the world
I am trying to find a movie I saw when I was a kid. I am 38 years old.
It was about a ship (kind of an airplane) and this ship has sections; each section will have something. I remember one section ...
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Short story with a house in a suburban neighborhood that was dangerous only at certain times of day
I remember the feeling of impending terror I got reading this story more than the storyline. I know it was in an anthology, whether sci-fi, fantasy or horror. There's nothing that I can remember in ...
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Anthology of comic illustrated horror and fantasy comics, one was werewolves pre 1985
Anthology of comic illustrated horror and fantasy comics, one was werewolves pre 1985
Wasn’t a magazine as my public school library had it and I read it many times. Graduated there in 1986 so the book ...
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Old book about a man who finds an abandoned house with a portal to another world
This is an old book I think written around 1930s-ish timeframe (possibly older) and could be by a female author.
A man is traveling around Europe and finds what appears to be an abandoned house. (I ...
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SF/horror short story about a man who is chosen in a government lottery to look after a prison silo
I read a short story some time ago, and I can't recall the title or the author. I've asked AI, but it... Isn't helpful. (But I'm grateful to our robot overlords for their attempts. Honestly.)
The ...
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Horror movie that has a demon hand coming through a mirror
I think this movie was from either the 80's, the late 70's or even the late 80's.
The only parts of this movie that I can recall (I was really young when I watched this with my dad) was a priest (I ...
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Young adult horror story in which a boy's neighbor turns out to be the Devil
What I can remember is that a boy lives with his grandma in a apartment and a new neighbor moves in. The kid befriends the neighbor as the neighbor seems to know the kid's secret thoughts. It turns ...
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Horror movie in which one or more characters peer through windows at a house across the way and watch the silhouette of a man who might be dead
Viewed at US drive-in mid 1980's, this horror movie could (??) have been non-English and black & white. Unknown release date. Unknown country of origin.
Passage of time has made me an unreliable ...
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TV series about hospital where supernatural things happen
I saw the first episode of this and part of another one in around the late 90's- maybe early 2000's. The hero was a doctor, one of a select few who were deemed worthy to work in this hospital. Over ...
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A short story in French about furniture that leaves a mansion by itself, and comes back some time later
I read this Fantasy short story decades ago. I read it in French in a collection. As in two of my previous questions, it was not a collection of Fantasy, just one Fantasy story among several ...
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Story in an early 90's Horror Anthology re: demons in basement of new house
I've been trying to track down this Horror Anthology book, or the story. I believe I read it in summer of '92. It involves a brother and sister whose family move to a new house. Shortly after the ...
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