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Supernatural fiction
Supernatural fiction or supernaturalist fiction is a genre of speculative fiction that exploits or is centered on supernatural themes, often contradicting naturalist assumptions of the real world. In its broadest definition, supernatural fiction overlaps with examples of weird fiction, horror fiction, vampire literature, ghost story, and fantasy. Elements of supernatural fiction can be found in writing from the genre of science fiction.
Stephen King
Stephen King , né le à Portland dans le Maine, est un écrivain américain. Il publie son premier roman en 1974 et devient rapidement célèbre pour ses contributions dans le domaine de l'horreur mais écrit également des livres relevant d'autres genres comme le fantastique, la fantasy, la science-fiction et le roman policier. Tout au long de sa carrière, il écrit et publie plus de soixante romans, dont sept sous le nom de plume de Richard Bachman, et plus de deux cents nouvelles, dont plus de la moitié sont réunies dans douze recueils de nouvelles.
Horror fiction
Horror is a genre of fiction that is intended to disturb, frighten or scare. Horror is often divided into the sub-genres of psychological horror and supernatural horror, which are in the realm of speculative fiction. Literary historian J. A. Cuddon, in 1984, defined the horror story as "a piece of fiction in prose of variable length... which shocks, or even frightens the reader, or perhaps induces a feeling of repulsion or loathing". Horror intends to create an eerie and frightening atmosphere for the reader.
Gothic fiction
Gothic fiction, sometimes called Gothic horror (primarily in the 20th century), is a loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting. The name refers to Gothic architecture of the European Middle Ages, which was characteristic of the settings of early Gothic novels. The first work to call itself Gothic was Horace Walpole's 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, later subtitled "A Gothic Story". Subsequent 18th-century contributors included Clara Reeve, Ann Radcliffe, William Thomas Beckford, and Matthew Lewis.