Page "Horror fiction" Paragraph 8

Scholarship on horror fiction is almost as old as horror fiction itself.

In 1826, the gothic novelist Ann Radcliffe published an essay distinguishing two elements of horror fiction, " terror " and " horror.

" Whereas terror is a feeling of dread that takes place before an event happens, horror is a feeling of revulsion or disgust after an event has happened.

Radcliffe describes terror as that which " expands the soul and awakens the faculties to a high degree of life ," whereas horror is described as that which " freezes and nearly annihilates them.