Not too long ago I tried to concoct some sort of a theory that horror wasn’t really much more than a sub-genre of fantasy, but soon found I had rather a flimsy argument. Fantasy, although often shoehorned in with sci-fi, is I think more closely related to horror than it is to sci-fi, but that’s hardly evidence, is it.
There is often a supernatural element to horror stories: ghosts, demons, monsters and other fantastical creatures. Continue reading