The Spectrum of Screams: Horror Terms 101

Horrors & terrors & and gross-outs, oh my!

Is horror the most philosophical genre? This question might seem strange to those who think of “horror” as the genre of B-movie gore fests and jump scares, but horror—especially horror literature—has a long history of drawing from and contributing to philosophy. In English-language literature, horror is the slimy, eldritch beast that crawled from the ee…