Horror Tropes

Horror stories, from any medium...

A subgenre of Speculative Fiction as many contain supernatural elements.

Compare Paranormal Tropes, Skeletal Tropes, Darkness and Shadows Tropes.

Tropes:
Categories:
 * Bloody Tropes
 * Cosmic Horror Story
 * Lovecraftian Tropes
 * Gothic Horror
 * Index of Gothic Horror Tropes
 * Hammer Horror
 * Haunted Index
 * Madness Tropes
 * Nightmare Fuel
 * Psychological Horror
 * Religious Horror
 * Slasher Movie
 * Subverted Innocence
 * Survival Horror
 * Undead Index
 * Tropes of the Living Dead
 * Zombie Stories
 * Vampire Tropes
 * Vampire Fiction
 * Universal Horror
 * Werebeast Tropes
 * Werewolf Works


 * Abandoned Area
 * Abandoned Hospital
 * Abandoned Hospital Awakening
 * Abandoned Playground
 * Abandoned Warehouse
 * Ghost City
 * Ghost Town
 * Ghost Planet
 * Haunted Castle
 * Haunted House
 * Absurdly Ineffective Barricade
 * The Adjectival Man
 * Afterlife Express
 * Alien Geometries
 * All Hallow's Eve
 * All in The Eyes
 * All Webbed Up
 * Alucard
 * Always Night
 * Anal Probing
 * Ancient Tomb
 * And I Must Scream
 * ...And Show It to You
 * Ankle Drag
 * Another Mans Terror
 * Apocalyptic Log
 * Artifact of Doom
 * Artifact of Death
 * Summoning Artifact
 * Tome of Eldritch Lore
 * Attack of the Killer Whatever
 * Attack of the Monster Appendage
 * Auto Cannibalism
 * Ax Crazy
 * Baby Boomers
 * Backstory Horror
 * Bad Humor Truck
 * Barrier-Busting Blow
 * Bat Out of Hell
 * Bear Trap
 * Beat Still My Heart
 * Belly Mouth
 * Beware of Hitch-Hiking Ghosts
 * The Blank
 * Blood Bath
 * Bloody Handprint
 * Body and Host
 * Body Horror
 * Brain Food
 * Broken Heel
 * Buried Alive
 * The Calls Are Coming From Inside the House
 * Campbell Country
 * Camp Unsafe Isn't Safe Anymore
 * Candlelit Bath
 * Cannibal Clan
 * Cannibalism Superpower
 * Cat Scare
 * The Chain of Harm (especially #4 and #5)
 * Chest Burster
 * Child By Rape
 * Chinese Vampire
 * Chupacabra
 * Clingy Costume
 * Cobweb Jungle
 * Complete Monster
 * Conjoined Twins
 * Connect the Deaths
 * Corpse Land
 * The Corruption
 * Cosmic Horror Story
 * Creepy Basement
 * Creepy Cemetery
 * Creepy Child
 * Creepy Children Singing
 * Creepy Circus Music
 * Creepy Doll
 * Creepy Housekeeper
 * Creepy Long Fingers
 * Creepy Souvenir
 * Crop Circles
 * Cruel and Unusual Death
 * Crusty Caretaker
 * Curiosity Killed the Cast
 * Dangerous Windows
 * Danger Takes a Backseat
 * Darkness Equals Death
 * Dark World
 * Daylight Horror
 * The Dead Can Dance
 * Vampire Dance
 * Deadly Prank
 * Death By Materialism
 * Death By Mocking
 * Death By Sex
 * Defanged Horrors
 * Demonic Dummy
 * Depraved Dentist
 * Developing Doomed Characters
 * Distress Call
 * Distressed Damsel
 * The Doll Episode
 * Don't Go in The Woods
 * Stay On the Path
 * Drool Hello
 * Ear Ache
 * Eaten Alive
 * Electromagnetic Ghosts
 * The End of the World As We Know It
 * The End - Or Is It?
 * Enemy Rising Behind
 * Everybody's Dead, Dave
 * Evil Elevator
 * Evil Hand
 * Evil Is Visceral
 * Evil Phone
 * Exorcist Head
 * Extremely Dusty Home
 * Eye Awaken
 * Eyeless Face
 * Eye Scream
 * Eyes Are Unbreakable
 * The Eyes Have It
 * Face Revealing Turn
 * Facial Horror
 * Tear Off Your Face
 * False Innocence Trick
 * The Family That Slays Together
 * Faux Horror Film
 * A Fete Worse Than Death
 * Final Girl
 * Fingore
 * Flaying Alive
 * Flies Equals Evil
 * Food Chain of Evil
 * Footprints of Muck
 * For Doom the Bell Tolls
 * The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You
 * Freak Lab Accident
 * Gate of Truth
 * Ghost Butler
 * Ghost Story
 * Ghostly Chill
 * Ghostly Goals
 * Giant Eye of Doom
 * Giant Spider
 * God and Satan Are Both Jerks
 * Gory Deadly Overkill Title of Fatal Death
 * Gory Discretion Shot
 * Sound-Only Death
 * Gross Up Close-Up
 * Grotesque Gallery
 * Gutted Like a Fish
 * Gypsy Curse
 * Half the Man He Used To Be
 * Halloweentown
 * Hair-Raising Hare
 * Harbinger of Impending Doom
 * Haunted Fetter
 * Haunted Headquarters
 * Haunted Heroine
 * Haunted House Historian
 * Haunted Technology
 * Hazardous Water
 * Headless Horseman
 * Hell Hotel
 * Hell Is That Noise
 * Hockey Mask and Chainsaw
 * Hollywood Exorcism
 * Homicide Machines
 * Horny Devils
 * Horrifying the Horror
 * Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
 * Horror Struck
 * A House Divided
 * Humanoid Abomination
 * Human Resources
 * Human-to-Werewolf Footprints
 * I Can See You
 * I Hate You, Vampire Dad
 * I Love the Dead
 * Inescapable Horror
 * I'm a Humanitarian
 * Cannibal Clan
 * Cannibal Tribe
 * Horror Hunger
 * Invited As Dinner
 * No Party Like a Donner Party
 * Picky People Eater
 * Brain Food
 * I'm Cold... So Cold...
 * Impromptu Tracheotomy
 * Indian Burial Ground
 * Infernal Retaliation
 * Initiation Ceremony
 * Inn of No Return
 * In That Order
 * Ironic Nursery Tune
 * It Can Think
 * It Won't Turn Off
 * The Jersey Devil
 * Jump Scare
 * Kaiju
 * Keeper of Forbidden Knowledge
 * Kensington Gore
 * Life or Limb Decision
 * Light Flicker Teleportation
 * Lightmare Fuel
 * The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday
 * Living Bodysuit
 * Living Shadow
 * Long Neck
 * Losing Your Head
 * Lost in The Maize
 * Made From Real Girl Scouts
 * Made of Plasticine
 * Madwoman in The Attic
 * Magnetic Medium
 * Malevolent Masked Men
 * Malevolent Mutilation
 * Man-Eating Plant
 * Marionette Motion
 * Meat Moss
 * Meaningful Background Event
 * Medical Horror
 * Menstrual Menace
 * Mirror Monster
 * Mirror Scare
 * Mobile Menace
 * Monster Clown
 * Monster Progenitor
 * Monsters Anonymous
 * Mook Horror Show
 * The Most Dangerous Video Game
 * Mother of a Thousand Young
 * Mummy
 * Mummies At the Dinner Table
 * Mundanger
 * Murder By Cremation
 * Murder Water
 * Murderous Mannequin
 * Museum of the Strange And Unusual
 * Nested Mouths
 * Never Sleep Again
 * New House New Problems
 * Nightmare Face
 * Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book
 * Night Swim Equals Death
 * No Face Under the Mask
 * No Immortal Inertia
 * Not a Mask
 * Nothing but Skulls
 * Nothing Is Scarier
 * Not Using the Z Word
 * Occult Detective
 * Occult Law Firm
 * Offscreen Teleportation
 * Ominous Crack
 * Ominous Fog
 * Fog of Doom
 * Ominous Music Box Tune
 * Once Is Not Enough
 * Oops, I Dropped the Keys
 * Organ Theft
 * Orifice Invasion
 * Orifice Evacuation
 * Our Werewolves Are Different
 * Paint the Town Red
 * Peek a Boo Corpse
 * People Farms
 * Personal Horror
 * Perverse Puppet
 * Phlegmings
 * Picky People Eater
 * Pleasure Island
 * The Power of Blood
 * Prank Date
 * Pretend We're Dead
 * Protect This House
 * Psychological Horror
 * Psychological Torment Zone
 * Psycho Party Member
 * Over the Shoulder Murder Shot
 * Rain of Blood
 * Raising the Steaks
 * Razor Apples
 * Regret Eating Me
 * Resist the Beast
 * Removing the Head Or Destroying The Brain
 * Rise From Your Grave
 * Room 101
 * Room Full of Crazy
 * Room Full of Zombies
 * Rule of Scary
 * Safe Zone Hope Spot
 * The Savage South
 * Scare Chord
 * Scary Flashlight Face
 * Scary Jack in The Box
 * Scary Scarecrows
 * Scary Scorpions
 * Screamer Trailer
 * Screaming Woman
 * The Secret of Long Pork Pies
 * Security Cling
 * See-Thru Specs
 * Senseless Phagia
 * Sensor Suspense
 * Sensory Abuse
 * Shadow Discretion Shot
 * Shaggy Search Technique
 * Silver Bullet
 * Sinister Scraping Sound
 * Skele Bot 9000
 * Skeleton Crew
 * Slashers Prefer Blondes
 * Slow Transformation
 * Sorting Algorithm of Mortality
 * Spiders Are Scary
 * Spooky Painting
 * Spooky Photographs
 * Spooky Seance
 * Spring Loaded Corpse
 * Stages of Monster Grief
 * Staking the Loved One
 * The Stars Are Going Out
 * Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
 * Supernatural Proof Father
 * Surprisingly-Sudden Death
 * Surreal Horror
 * Swarm of Rats
 * Taxidermy Is Creepy
 * Taxidermy Terror
 * Tentative Light
 * Television Portal
 * Terror At Make Out Point
 * Too Much for Man To Handle
 * These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know
 * Things That Go Bump in The Night
 * Through the Eyes of Madness
 * Too Many Mouths
 * Touch of the Monster
 * Tongue Trauma
 * Torso With a View
 * Torture Cellar
 * Town With a Dark Secret
 * Traumatic C-Section
 * Uberwald
 * Ultimate Evil
 * Uncanny Valley
 * Uncanny Valley Makeup
 * Undead Author
 * Unfinished Business
 * Urban Legends
 * Vampire Invitation
 * Vagina Dentata
 * Van Helsing Hate Crimes
 * Very Loosely Based on a True Story
 * Viral Transformation
 * The Virus
 * The Corruption
 * Virus Victim Symptoms
 * Walking Backwards
 * Wax Museum Morgue
 * We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties
 * Wendigo
 * What Happened to Mommy?
 * White Mask of Doom
 * Who You Gonna Call?
 * Wipe That Smile Off Your Face
 * With Great Power Comes Great Insanity
 * The Worm That Walks
 * You Are Who You Eat
 * You Look Like You've Seen a Ghost
 * Youth Is Wasted On the Dumb
 * Zombie Apocalypse