Horror: Difference between revisions

On [[Wengrol]], the sight of the mutated [[Yend]] constantly shapeshifting filled the [[First Doctor]] with horror. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Sons of the Crab (short story)|The Sons of the Crab]]'') On an [[Planet (Galaxy 4)|unnamed planet]], [[Maaga]] said that she would imagine the [[fear]] and horror the [[Rill]]s would experience just before their deaths. ([[TV]]: ''[[Galaxy 4 (TV story)|Galaxy 4]]'') The [[Fifth Doctor]] noted that any mention of the [[Dark Times|Dark Days]] filled [[Jerricho|the Castellan]] with horror. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'') At [[Villa Diodati]] in [[1816]], [[Mary Shelley]] hoped to hear a story that would awaken thrilling horror. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Haunting of Villa Diodati (TV story)|The Haunting of Villa Diodati]]'')

"Horror" also referred to things which caused horror. [[Susan Foreman]] had seen horror before on screens and behind glass, but had never encountered creatures like the [[Fox (Frayed)|foxes]] she saw on [[Iwa]] before. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Frayed (novel)|Frayed]]'') On [[Skaro]], [[Ganatus]] stated that there was horror in the [[Lake of Mutations]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]'') In [[Mexico]], Susan described the [[Aztec]] civilisation as "beauty and horror developing hand in hand." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Aztecs (TV story)|The Aztecs]]'') [[Edward Waterfield]] said that the [[Dalek]]s had forced him into the horror of [[time travel]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Evil of the Daleks (TV story)|The Evil of the Daleks]]'') On [[Dulkis]], [[Dulcian]] [[student]]s were brought to the [[Island of Death]] to show them the horror of [[radiation]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dominators (TV story)|The Dominators]]'') In [[Vorg (Carnival of Monsters)|Vorg]]'s [[miniscope]], [[Jo Grant]] referred to the [[Drashig]]s as horrors. ([[TV]]: ''[[Carnival of Monsters (TV story)|Carnival of Monsters]]'') [[Richard Dunbar]] referred to a [[Krynoid]] as a horror. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Seeds of Doom (TV story)|The Seeds of Doom]]'') On [[Earth]] in the [[distant past#Billions of years BC|distant past]], [[Megron]] described the planet as being racked and torn by the horror of its [[volcano]]es. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Exploration Earth (audio story)|Exploration Earth]]'') [[George Litefoot]] wondered what unspeakable horror lay behind [[Magnus Greel]]'s [[mask]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)|The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]'') The [[Fourth Doctor]] referred to the [[Fendahl]] as a mythological horror. ([[TV]]: ''[[Image of the Fendahl (TV story)|Image of the Fendahl]]'') The [[Seventh Doctor]] referred to the evil [[Ace]] had sensed in [[Gabriel Chase]] in [[1983]] as a horror. ([[TV]]: ''[[Ghost Light (TV story)|Ghost Light]]'') In [[1943]], Ace playfully referred to the infant [[Audrey Dudman]] as "the little horror." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fenric (TV story)|The Curse of Fenric]]'') In [[2009]], [[Clyde Langer]] called [[Spellman's Magical Museum of the Circus]] "the Circus of Horrors." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Clown (TV story)|The Day of the Clown]]'') In [[2011]], [[Gwen Cooper]] recalled having seen horror with [[Jack Harkness]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Immortal Sins (TV story)|Immortal Sins]]'') In [[1893]], the effects of [[red leech]] [[venom]] on people came to be known as "the Crimson Horror." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Crimson Horror (TV story)|The Crimson Horror]]'') In [[London]] in [[1651]], the [[Twelfth Doctor]] warned [[Ashildr]] that she had no idea what horrors might come through the portal the [[Eyes of Hades]] would open. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Woman Who Lived (TV story)|The Woman Who Lived]]'') On [[Gallifrey]], [[Ohila]] warned [[Rassilon]] that the Doctor did not blame the whole planet for the horrors of the [[Time War]]–just him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') On a [[Mondasian]] [[Colony ship (World Enough and Time)|colony ship]], {{Simm}} told [[Bill Potts]] that her positive attitude would help with the horror to come–mainly the [[tea]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'')

'''Horror''' was also a genre of fiction. On [[21st century]] Earth, [[Rebecca Cox]] read weird European horror [[novel]]s, while [[Calvin Palmer]] and his friends played horror [[computer game]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Warhead (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Warhead]]'') [[Edith Randall]] believed that [[Bea Nelson-Stanley]]'s talk about encounters with [[alien]]s and [[monster]]s were just distorted memories of old horror [[movie]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[Eye of the Gorgon (TV story)|Eye of the Gorgon]]'') ''[[Alien (film)|Alien]]'' was the title of a horror movie, which the Doctor found really offensive. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'') Horror movies did not exist on [[Traken]]. When [[Tegan Jovanka]] explained the genre to [[Nyssa]], she was repelled, as such glorification of [[evil]] and [[violence]] was alien to the [[Trakenite]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eternity Contract (short story)|The Eternity Contract]]'')