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	Alice Andersen BellaOnline's Horror Literature Editor

Dystopian - Apocalyptic - Post-Apocalyptic Novels
The terms dystopian, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic are often misused when describing a novel. Here are ways to tell them apart and narrow down your favorites.

Gothic Horror Literature
Early gothic novels brought a new standard to literature and some of our favorite elements of romance and horror began with gothic tales. Learn more about the essence of the gothic in literature.

Horror Literature Newsletter Update
A newsletter designed to keep the subscriber up-to-date on the latest articles, books, and fun from the world of horror writing.

Pleasurable Fear – Horror Literature
Fine literary writing is often based on emotions. Fear is the greatest emotion of all and yet horror writers are looked down on when they bring fear to the table. But they continue to have untold numbers of fans. Maybe it's about time to re-examine the emotion of fear in literature.

The Cthulhu Mythos
If the Cthulhu Mythos sounds like something out of a horror novel, it is. It can even lay claim to being it’s own genre within horror literature.

Types of Horror Fiction
Organizing horror literature is tricky but there are two basic types - that of the supernatural world and that of the real, or non-supernatural, world. Within those basic types we can break it down even farther to find what we are looking for.

What is Horror Fiction? [offsite link]
The Horror Writer´s Association explains in an essay what horror fiction is and why it´s so difficult to classify.

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