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Cyrill and Method  \nTrnava  \nAbstract  \nThe study deals with the genre of horror, outlining it and describing the dominant features and typological variations. It provides a brief overview of the development process in the realm of literature, film and computer games and outlines its appearance in other fields of culture and art. It characterises the readers and viewers of horror works and their motives for seeking the genre. The thesis wants to introduce the genre, its representants in Slovak and Czech literature.  \nKey words: genre, subgenre, horror, dread, short story, novel, film, writer, director, game, violence, blood, danger, mystical, supernatural phenomenon, ghost, monster, vampire, zombie, werewolf, murderer.  \n1. Introduction  \nThe oldest and strongest human emotion is fear. It is embedded in people since time began. It was fear that initiated the establishment of faith and religion. It was the fear of unknown and mysterious phenomena, which people could not explain otherwise than via impersonating a high power, which decides their fates. To every unexplainable phenomenon they attributed a character, human or inhuman, which they associated with supernatural skills and invincible power. And since the human imagination knows no limits, a wide scale of archetypal characters have been created, such as gods, demons, ghosts, spirits, freaks, monsters or villains. Stories and legends describing their insurmountable power started to spread about them. Despite the fact by the development of science many so far incomprehensible phenomena have been explained, these archetypes and legends are still being used in literature and other branches of art. Three genres are based on fear and imagination: science fiction, fantasy and horror, which together form a so-called fantastic triangle. It is why they so often overlap and enrich themselves.  \n2. Horror as a Genre  \nThe definitions of the genre of horror differ. Many authors have tried to create a definition that would be able to completely distinguish and separate horror from the similar and close genres science fiction and thriller. However, they always encountered difficulties as the attributes that refer to one genre can be also found in the other one. To characterize horror, as a genre that invokes tension in recipients is not accurate enough, as science fictions, thrillers, detective and crime stories initiate the feeling of suspense as well. The same is to be said about the emotion of fear or the display of blood, which are another attributes of horror production but can be found in the other mentioned genres, too.  \nIn his work “An Introduction to Studying Popular Culture” Dominic Strinati created the following definition that characterizes horror “as a genre that represents the need for suppression if the horror shown is interpreted as expressing uncomfortable and disturbing desires which need to be contained.”1  \nHorror is a varied genre that is hard to be defined by one single definition. And therefore the most accurate is the one that defines horror through each of its categories and its subgenres. Todorov distinguishes between three forms of horror as a genre: uncanny, marvelous and fantastic.  \nIn the first category – the uncanny, the end of the story contains elements of supernatural, events that seem tobe unreal, impossible or irrational, or events that follow the laws of rational but are incredible, disturbing, unusual, shocking, unexpected or unique.  \n1 Strinati, D. (2000) An Introduction to Studying Popular Culture. New York, Londong: Routledge, p. 82  \nThe viewer/reader has an opportunity to explain them in their own way. Yet the laws of reality remain untouched. Examples of this category are the following films: Taste of Fear (1961), Nightmare (1964), Psycho (1960), or films that overlap with the genre of science fiction. 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