The Horror Writer's Association presents the Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement, named in honor of Bram Stoker, author of the seminal horror novel Dracula.

Isabel Cristina Pinedo, author of Recreational Terror: Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing, states, " The horror genre must keep terror and comedy in tension if it is to successfully tread the thin line that separates it from terrorism and parody ... this delicate balance is struck in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in which the decaying corpse of Grandpa not only incorporates horrific and humorous effects, but actually uses one to exacerbate the other.

In the book " Icons of Horror and the Supernatural: An Encyclopedia of Our Worst Nightmares, Volume 1 ", author S. T. Joshi cites both Waluigi and Wario as examples of alter egos, also as evidence of how popular it is to feature such character archetypes.

In the book Icons of Horror and the Supernatural: An Encyclopedia of Our Worst Nightmares, Volume 1, author S. T. Joshi cites both Waluigi and Wario as examples of alter egos, also as evidence of how popular it is to feature such character archetypes ..

* Guy Anthony De Marco, Speculative fiction author, member of SFWA and the Horror Writers Association

Peter Milligan penned the other new series, Enigma, and continued Shade, the Changing Man, while Ennis continued Hellblazer, Delano wrote Animal Man, Fantasy author Rachel Pollack took over Doom Patrol and Horror author Nancy Collins wrote Swamp Thing.

* David Ruffle ( 1956 -) Lyme Regis based author of Sherlock Holmes novels, some of which are set in the town, notably Sherlock Holmes and the Lyme Regis Horror and Sherlock Holmes and the Lyme Regis Legacy.

In 1928, author H. P. Lovecraft visited Wilbraham, after which he modeled the fictional town of Dunwich in his story " The Dunwich Horror ".

Spanish author Alberto López Aroca's short story " Al otro lado de Dunwich " ( The Other Side of Dunwich ) in his collection Los Espectros Conjurados is a prequel to The Dunwich Horror and August Derleth's The Lurker at the Threshold.

" Horror author Stephen King defended Hostel: Part II and torture porn stating, " sure it makes you uncomfortable, but good art should make you uncomfortable.

Horror author Anne Rice has named Dracula's Daughter as a direct inspiration for her own homoerotic vampire fiction, naming a bar in her novel Queen of the Damned " Dracula's Daughter " in honor of the film.

Horror author Clive Barker, for example, envisioned his famous " Candy Man " killer to be nothing more than a myth gone terribly awry in his original story.

* Jay Anson ( 1921 – 1980 ), American author of The Amityville Horror

The label's name " Dunwich " refers to The Dunwich Horror, a story by H. P. Lovecraft, an author with whom Traut was enamored.

He is the author of an autobiography, as well as a volume Sacred Masks: Behind the Mask of the Horror Actor which explores the history of masks in society, and their applications in horror films.

Judith Halberstam, author of Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters, writes, " The cause for Buffalo Bill's extreme violence against women lies not in his gender confusion or his sexual orientation but in his humanist presumption that his sex and his gender and his orientation must all match-up to a mythic norm of white heterosexual masculinity.

American author Robert Anton Wilson used de Selby in footnotes in his novel The Widow's Son and in his short story " The Horror on Howth Hill ".

The village of Withyham features in Arthur Conan Doyle's short story The Horror of the Heights as the finding place of the Joyce-Armstrong Fragment, a supposedly real fragment of a diary detailing the airborne adventures of the author of the diary.

Jay Anson ( November 4, 1921 – March 12, 1980 ) was an American author whose most famous work was The Amityville Horror.

In May 1996, Dr. Strada was the author of the Scientific American cover story, " The Horror of Landmines ".

Horror author Stephen King voted The Devil's Rejects the 9th best movie of 2005 and wrote, " No redeeming social merit, perfect ' 70s C-grade picture cheesy glow ; this must be what Quentin Tarantino meant when he did those silly Kill Bill pictures ".

Horror author Ray Garton who wrote an account of the alleged haunting of the Snedeker family in Southington, Connecticut later called into question the veracity of the accounts contained in his book, saying, “ The family involved, which was going through some serious problems like alcoholism and drug addiction, could not keep their story straight, and I became very frustrated ; it ’ s hard writing a non-fiction book when all the people involved are telling you different stories ”.

Horror author Stephen King called Levin ’ s first novel “ a gritty suspense story told with great élan .” He describes the novel as unique in the sense that a key element of the story — the revelation that Bud Corliss ( whose character remains unnamed through the first third portion of the novel ) was Dorothy's murderer — takes the reader by complete surprise.

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Rocky Horror is the first film from a major Hollywood studio to be in the midnight movie market.

Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated was nominated in the category of Best Independent Production ( film, documentary or short ) for the 8th Annual Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards, but lost to American Scary, a documentary on television horror movie hosts.

* November 26 – The 1975 cult classic movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show came out in America.

The setting of the movie in a health club and the movie was given a working title of Health Club Horror.

A Simpson's Comics Treehouse of Horror issue features a parody of this episode, which is also based on the classic movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

It was also recorded by Webb Wilder and the Beatnecks for their album Doo Dad, and featured in the " trip " sequence in Webb's movie Horror Hayride.

* April 1-The Rocky Horror Picture Show is officially re-released as a midnight movie at the Waverly Theater ( Now the IFC Center ) in Greenwich Village in New York City, starting through the run and still being shown in there all around the world.

From 1992 to 1997, Cinemax aired one movie each day of the week that would be centered around a certain genre, represented by various pictures that would play in a specialized feature presentation bumper before the start of the movie ; the symbols included: Comedy ( represented by an abstract face made up of various movie props, with the mouth open to look like it is laughing ), Suspense ( represented by a running man silhouette ), Premiere ( represented by an exclamation point caught in spotlights ), Horror ( represented by a skull ), Drama ( represented by abstract comedy & tragedy masks ), Vanguard ( represented by a globe ), Action ( represented by a machine gun ) and Classic ( represented by a classic movie-era couple embracing and kissing ).

Many of these cult cinema fans learned all of the lines in the film and would recite them at the screenings, a phenomenon which would later become associated with another popular midnight movie of the era, The Rocky Horror Picture Show ( 1975 ).

Varney also had a bit of a shocking role as one of the rebels in the midnight movie, Existo, a film dubbed as the next Rocky Horror Picture Show.

He worked on movie soundtracks for B-movie studio American International Pictures where he composed and conducted scores for Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe films and other horror stories and teenage musicals, including The Pit and the Pendulum, The Comedy of Terrors, Muscle Beach Party, The Dunwich Horror, and Frogs.

Examples of TV anthologies are Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, American Horror Story, Tales from the Darkside, Producers ' Showcase, the Disney anthology television series, Hallmark Hall of Fame, Ford Star Jubilee, The Alcoa Hour, Playhouse 90, and Tales from the Crypt, which was not only an HBO series but also a movie anthology, both based on the EC horror-comic anthology.

In episode nineteen, " That Hurts Me ", Jason reappears, this time as a housemate of " Horror Movie Big Brother ", alongside other famous slasher movie killers such as Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, Leatherface, Pinhead, and Ghostface.

Morasca and Zohn also starred in " The Watcher ", a 20 minute horror movie included in the Drive-In Horror Show series,

* In the 1960 British horror film The City of the Dead ( aka Horror Hotel ) actor Valentine Dyall plays a centuries-old warlock who hitches a ride with two different characters in the movie and then vanishes from the car as soon as they reach an ancient New England witch village.

It's frequently described as a " Horror / Western / War / Action / Sci-fi " movie, as it covers all of those genres in different episodes.

B-movie legend Roger Corman first used the concept of tentacle rape in a brief scene in his 1970 film The Dunwich Horror, a movie adaptation of the H. P. Lovecraft short story of the same name.

The cult hit movie musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show has inspired several generations of young people to attend performances in drag, although many of these fans would deny that they are actually transvestites.

In one episode, the music from the movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show (" Creatures of the Night " starring Barry Bostwick ) and in another episode (" Wilkommen ") only music from Cabaret was used.

Dr. Frank-N-Furter from the movie, Rocky Horror Picture Show, is a male bodied person but wears lingerie, clothing, and accessories thought to be feminine.

The scenes depict actual midnight screenings of the cult classic with its unique audience participation, hosted by Rocky Horror Fan Club president Sal Piro who appears in the movie as himself.