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The first recognized horror novel, Horace Walpole's 'The Castle of Otranto' (1764), was initially published anonymously and claimed to be a translation of a 16th-century Italian manuscript to avoid criticism.
Mary Shelley wrote 'Frankenstein' at just 18 years old during the 'Year Without a Summer' in 1816, when volcanic ash darkened European skies and inspired a ghost story competition among friends.
Victorian horror stories called 'penny dreadfuls' sold for one penny per 8-page installment and reached circulation numbers of up to 100,000 copies weekly, making horror accessible to the working class for the first time.
H.P. Lovecraft, now considered a master of cosmic horror, earned only $380 total from his fiction during his lifetime and died believing himself a failure as a writer.
The narrative technique of the 'jump scare' can be traced back to M.R. James's ghost stories from the early 1900s, which he specifically wrote to be read aloud at Christmas Eve gatherings.
Edgar Allan Poe wrote at least nine stories featuring premature burial or being buried alive, reflecting a genuine Victorian-era phobia when an estimated 1 in 25 coffins showed evidence of attempted escape.
William Peter Blatty spent four years researching actual exorcism cases before writing 'The Exorcist' (1971), basing it on a documented 1949 case of a 14-year-old boy in Maryland.
Traditional Japanese horror stories (kaidan) follow a distinct four-part structure called 'jo-ha-kyū' borrowed from Noh theater, creating a slow-building dread fundamentally different from Western horror's shock tactics.
Stephen King, who has published over 60 horror novels, maintains a daily writing goal of 2,000 words with no exceptions, a discipline he's followed since the 1970s.
Horror writers have exploited the 'uncanny valley' phenomenon since the 1800s, though the term wasn't coined until 1970—it explains why almost-human entities in horror stories trigger instinctive revulsion.
During horror pulp fiction's golden age (1930s-1950s), magazines like 'Weird Tales' paid authors 0.5 to 1 cent per word, yet launched the careers of Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, and dozens of horror legends.
Fredric Brown's 'Knock' (1948), often cited as the shortest horror story ever published in a professional magazine, consists of exactly two sentences and only 28 words total, yet delivers complete terror.
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