By definition, a serial killer is anyone who commits a series of murders with no real motive. So most slasher characters are technically serial killers. But the term often denotes a certain ...

Having technology that runs amok is found all through horror tales. It can take the form of a humanoid robot like Terminator (1984) or Evil Maria in Metropolis (1927) or something more archaic or ...

Time travel is a trope in horror that involves a character or a group of characters who travel to the past or the future, either intentionally or accidentally. Time travel can create paradoxes, alter ...

Like demented toys, demon children, and spooky nursery rhymes, an evil, murderous, or otherwise scary clown has become a common trope within horror. And like the others, it is a subversion of what is ...

A Scare Dare is a horror trope that involves a character or a group of characters who are challenged or dared to enter a scary or dangerous place, such as a haunted house, a graveyard, or a dark ...

Revenge is a common element of storytelling. The moment a caveman stole something from another caveman, the idea of killing another human being entered someone's mind. Acting on that feeling... that ...

Horror stories and movies about sleep are an interesting bunch. Certainly Nightmare on Elm Street is by far the most prominent example. Freddy Krueger has evolved into the ultimate sleep boogeyman. ...

Closely linked with the trope Familiar Places are Scary, this trope specifically refers to when your home is scary, usually haunted. This is different than That House is Scary, which refers to when ...

The image of Victor Frankenstein sending electricity through the prone monster lying in front of him is one of the most iconic in all of horror. And thus a million mad scientist parodies were born. ...

In horror circles the term has become commonplace. It's our "Shakespearian"... only with much larger tentacles. The term Lovecraftian comes from H.P. Lovecraft and is closely associated with the ...