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horror story en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

1. A fictional narrative of horrifying and often supernatural events.
   • The film is based on a horror story by Edgar Allan Poe.
2. (informal) A disturbing rumour.
   • We've heard horror stories about people being attacked in the elevator.
   • Nevertheless, the batarians have colonized the world, forcing slaves to work in their mines and agri-habitats. The labor is hot, endless, and backbreaking, even in the low-G environment. Every horror story told by slaves elsewhere in the cluster seems to be topped by one from Logasiri. The most famous is that of the slaver Silparon, who worked to death 420 slaves over the course of a galactic standard year and ground up their bodies for compost in his greenhouses. 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Logasiri:
3. An unpleasant experience.
   • The French election is straying from the script. It was meant to be a predictable remake. It has turned into a thriller. It could end up as a horror story. 2022 April 8, John Lichfield, “Get ready for a scary fortnight in French politics: a Le Pen presidency really is possible”, in The Guardian:
   • It was more of a horror story than a vacation.

Forms

Relateds

horror show

Translations (22)

cmn 恐怖故事 (fictional narrative of horrifying and often supernatural events) · es historia de miedo (fictional narrative of horrifying and often supernatural events) · es historia de miedo (unpleasant experience) · es historia de terror (fictional narrative of horrifying and often supernatural events) · fi kauhutarina (disturbing rumour) · ug قورقۇنچلۇق ھېكايە (fictional narrative of horrifying and often supernatural events) · sv skräckhistoria (fictional narrative of horrifying and often supernatural events) · es historia de terror (unpleasant experience) · fr histoire d'épouvante (fictional narrative of horrifying and often supernatural events) · sv skräckexempel (unpleasant experience) · fi kauhutarina (fictional narrative of horrifying and often supernatural events) · nl horrorverhaal (unpleasant experience) · hu horrortörténet (fictional narrative of horrifying and often supernatural events) · cmn 恐怖的經歷 /恐怖的经历 (unpleasant experience) · fr horreur (unpleasant experience) · cmn 可怕的謠言 /可怕的谣言 (disturbing rumour) · fi kauhutarina (unpleasant experience) · pl horror (fictional narrative of horrifying and often supernatural events) · nl horrorverhaal (fictional narrative of horrifying and often supernatural events) · fr histoire d'horreur (fictional narrative of horrifying and often supernatural events) · pl horror (unpleasant experience) · fr horreurs (disturbing rumour)