GSAFD, 2000 (Horror fiction. UF: Fiction, Horror; Horror novels; Horror tales; Terror tales)

LC database, Nov. 12, 2002 (horror fiction; horror stories; scary stories; scary tales; stories of fantasy and horror; horror novels; tales of terror)

Baldick, Chris. The Oxford dictionary of literary terms (online), viewed April 9, 2024 (horror story; A kind of fictional narrative designed to inspire feelings of revulsion in its readers... The typical materials of horror fiction are decomposing corpses (rather than ethereal ghosts), vermin, bodily mutilations or tortures, monstrous transformations, cannibalism, blood-sucking, incest, and the great empire of slime.)