Short Horror Stories
Horror stories have grown to be so popular all over the world for both children and adults. This sensational genre translates people to another world and level that makes the hearts to pound, the breathing to escalate and blood to rush. Anybody reading a horror story is bound to experience a thrill and adrenaline rush just like when you ride on a very fast roller coaster.
Other physical and emotional reactions that a reader experiences include chills, cringing, crying, dry mouth, frozenness, hair bristling, heightened alertness, involuntary screaming, and momentary arrest. Muscular contractions, nausea, paralysis, recoiling, shrinking, shuddering, sweating, spine-tingling, trembling, urinating and weak-keed also characterise horror stories.
A horror short story is a genre of fiction that is aimed at instilling fear, dread, repulsion and terror in an audience. Its purpose is to develop horror as it contains supernatural elements like monsters and vampires though some may build from the common fears that people normally have like the fear of spiders.
Unlike other short stories where the main character faces some challenges and overcomes them to learn a lesson, in a horror short story the main character meets their death in their worst fears.
There various types of sub-genres of horror short stories that include:
· - Gothic – They include stories that specifically focus on death and it combines horror and romanticism.
· - Paranormal – These involve the ghost stories or the supernatural horror occurrences which even science cannot explain how they occur.
· - Occult – Consists of some ritual practices that you cannot place them under science or religion.
· - Dark fantasy – They are horror short stories that tend to blend the fantasy dark elements.
· - Survival – This one comprises of the main character who tries to survive within the circumstances of the people who hunt them.
· - Science fiction – These horror stories blend the elements of science fiction.
The main importance of horror short stories is to expose to the readers the deepest nightmares and anxieties that push the limits of the emotions and fear of the people.
The History Of Horror Stories
The United Kingdom’s stories with elements of fear, horror and despair traces to the archetype of horror that have existed for a very long time. this Archetype vampire originates from the ancient civilization of summer. The first horror stories were published in 1307 by Dante under the title “Divine Comedy, Inferno”: they were pegged largely to religion.
Other work followed in 1436, Malleus Maleficarum” among the rest. Thomas Parnell goes int records as the first person to print Gothic stories in 1774 in the book called “A Night-Piece on Death”. The horror of the children the followed in 1819 and many more stories were written and are being written today.
Other work followed in 1436, Malleus Maleficarum” among the rest. Thomas Parnell goes int records as the first person to print Gothic stories in 1774 in the book called “A Night-Piece on Death”. The horror of the children the followed in 1819 and many more stories were written and are being written today.
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Short Horror Story Writers
Here is our list of prominent horror writers and this popular topic,
Stephen Edwin King
Born on 21st September 1947, Stephen is a short stories writer from America with a lot of work in horror, suspense, supernatural fiction, and fantasy stories. He has written and sold over 350 million copies whereby most of them have been adapted to ministries, comic books, television series and feature films. As, a horror writer, the king has also received many awards including the prestigious Bram Stoker Award, British Fantasy Society awards and the World Fantasy Awards.
Dean Ray Koontz
Dean is an American novelist, short story writer and a screenwriter. The 74-year-old man deals with suspense thrillers and most often he incorporates horror, fantasy, mystery and science fiction. His hard work in writing saw most of his books, including 16 paperbacks and 14 hardcovers, get into the New York times Nest Seller List as number one. His work has also seen him sell over 450 million copies.
Anne Rice
Anne is majorly known for her work in gothic fiction, erotic literature and Christian literature. The best of her work is “The Vampire Chronicles” whose main character is Lestat. She has sold over 100 million copies.
Mylo Carbia
This is among the top-ranking authors who have ever lived. She is the 7th best of the Horror Writers alive today and gets into the top 250 most influential authors according to Richtopia.com. generally, she has done so much work in the horror-thriller genre and her trademark is the surprise twist endings.
Peter Straub
Peter Francis Straub is another renowned horror writer whose work has received a lot of literary honours like the International Horror Guild Award, Bram Stoker Award and the World Fantasy Award. He also has collaborated with another prominent author Stephen King to do some work.
Jonathan Maberry
He is also among the top-rated horror writers of the time. Maberry takes number ten in the list of top horror writers and also writes in other genres like suspense, comic, and anthology. He is also a content creator, magazine feature writer and a lecturer or teacher in writing.
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Short Horror Story Writers & Their Stories
Ramsey Campbell
Ramsey Campbell was born in England’s Liverpool city to Alexander Ramsey and Nora Campbell. He studied at St. Edward’s college with the aid of his Christian brothers amid the rift that existed between his parents. Ramsey Campbel is another Liverpool born English horror writer who has written for decades – over 50 years. He first became prominent in the 1960s and has risen to be the finest living British horror writer. Other authors praise his work and draw a lot of inspiration from his work.
Ramsey started his writing work in the year 1957 to 1950 when he was eleven years old with the influence of a certain magazine in Bolton. His first collection was called Ghostly Tales and it consisted of sixteen stories and a poem. His mother encouraged him to write a whole book before sending his work to a publisher by that time. when the work was ready, he contacted many publishers who rejected his work but encouraged him to continue writing. His first work, Juvenilia, was published after thirty years and since then he has done a lot of work for over fifty years now.
Agatha Christie
Funny enough, just like Ramsey Campbell, Agatha Christie also began her writing work at the age of eleven but with just one poem. she used to read so many books as a child to at least give herself basic education before she started writing. When her mother was in her sickbed, she told Christie to write down the stories that the mother said and later she got her poems published. After that, she discovered her writing prowess and she wrote her second book “The Secret Adversary” and other books followed later.
Clive Barker
Clive began his career as a horror writer at an early age. He was born in 1952 in Liverpool, England. His collection of short stories called “Books of Blood” and “The Damnation Game” Novel were his first work in the year 1985. He then engaged into modern-day and urban fantasy writing work and produced a series of horror books including “Weaveworld”, “The Great and Secret Show” among the rest.
Clive’s work, “Book of Blood”, brought him into the limelight as a leading horror writer in mid-1980’s. Since then, he has written a myriad of novels and other works. He is also a film director, playwright and visual artist.
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl was one of the victims of the second world war who has a chance to work at the British Embassy where he met various high profile people among them C.S Forester, who was a prominent novelist. Forester was working at the British Mistry of Information where he was writing propaganda for American to consume. One time he instructed Dahl to write a story on his flying experiences as a soldier which he did and Forester published the story as it was and that is how Dahl got an inspiration to be a writer. The story made his first book called “Apiece of Cake” in 1942. He later did other works and more so children fictions.
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