Portal:Horror fiction

The Horror fiction Portal Topics Culture Geography Health History Mathematics Nature People Philosophy Religion Society Technology Welcome to Wikipedia's portal of horror fiction and horror film. Horror fiction is, broadly, fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle, or horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the "horror" experience has often been the intrusion of an evil or occasionally misunderstood supernatural element into everyday human experience. Since the 1960s, any work of fiction with a morbid, gruesome, surreal, exceptionally suspenseful or frightening theme has come to be called "horror." Horror fiction often overlaps with science fiction and/or fantasy, all of which have sometimes been placed under the umbrella category speculative fiction. In film, the horror genre is characterized by the attempt to make the viewer experience dread, fear, terror, disgust, or horror. Its plots often involve the intrusion of an evil force, event, or personage, sometimes of supernatural origin, into the mundane world. More about horror fiction... | More about horror film... Bride of Frankenstein is a 1935 American horror monster film, the first sequel to Frankenstein (1931). Bride of Frankenstein was directed by James Whale and stars Boris Karloff as the monster, Elsa Lanchester in the dual role of his mate and Mary Shelley, Colin Clive as Henry Frankenstein and Ernest Thesiger as Doctor Septimus Pretorius. The film follows on immediately from the events of its predecessor, and it is rooted in a subplot of the original Mary Shelley novel, Frankenstein (1818). In Bride of Frankenstein, a chastened Henry Frankenstein abandons his plans to create life, only to be tempted and finally coerced by the monster, encouraged by Henry's old mentor Dr. Pretorius, into constructing a mate for him. Preparation began shortly after the first film premiered, but script problems delayed the project. Principal photography started in January 1935, with creative personnel from the original returning in front of and behind the camera. Bride of Frankenstein was released to critical and popular acclaim, although it encountered difficulties with some state and national censorship boards. Since its release the film's reputation has grown, and it is hailed as Whale's masterpiece. A screenshot from George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968) -- a young zombie (Kyra Schon) and her victim (Karl Hardman). Due to the filmmakers' neglect of the (former) requirement to put proper notice on copies of their work, this image and the film it is from are in the public domain. You are invited to participate in WikiProject Horror, a WikiProject dedicated to developing and improving articles about horror fiction and films. Horror Wikiproject WikiProject Television WikiProject Films WikiProject Video games WikiProject Music WikiProject Comics WikiProject Arts Template:/box-footer Mary Shelley (1797–1851) was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. In 1814, Mary Godwin fell in love with one of her father's political followers, the married Percy Bysshe Shelley. Together with Mary's stepsister, Claire Clairmont, they left for France and travelled through Europe; upon their return to England, Mary was pregnant. Over the next two years, she and Percy faced ostracism, constant debt, and the death of their prematurely born daughter. In 1822, her husband drowned when his sailing boat sank during a storm in the Bay of La Spezia. A year later, Mary Shelley returned to England and from then on devoted herself to the upbringing of her son and a career as a professional author. The last decade of her life was dogged by illness, probably caused by the brain tumour that was to kill her at the age of 53. Template:/box-header 7 June 1997 – Perversions of Science premieres on television 2005 – Hellraiser: Deader released on DVD Archive | Nominate an item... ...that the 1927 American silent film The Cat and the Canary was directed by German expressionist filmmaker Paul Leni? ▼ Horror fiction ► Horror artists ► Horror journals ► Vampirism ► Horror writers ► Horror fiction stubs Add {{Portal|Horror fiction}} to the See also section of related articles. Tag the talk pages of related articles with {{WikiProject Horror}} Join WikiProject Horror and list yourself as a Participant in the project. 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