Editing Horror fiction (section)

===Before 1000===
[[File:Athenodorus - The Greek Stoic Philosopher Athenodorus Rents a Haunted House.jpg|thumb|upright|alt= Athenodorus and the ghost, by [[Henry Justice Ford]], {{circa}} 1900|An illustration of [[Andrew Lang]]'s "[[Athenodorus Cananites|Athenodorus]] confronts the Spectre"]]

The horror genre has ancient origins, with roots in folklore and religious traditions focusing on death, the afterlife, evil, the demonic, and the principle of the thing embodied in the person.<ref>{{cite book|first= Rosemary|last= Jackson |year= 1981|title= Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion|publisher= [[Methuen Publishing|Methuen]]|place= London|pages= 53–5, 68–9}}</ref> These manifested in stories of beings such as demons, witches, vampires, werewolves, and ghosts. Some early European horror-fiction were the [[Ancient Greeks]] and [[Ancient Romans]].<ref>{{Cite web|title= Even Ancient Greeks and Romans Enjoyed Good Scary Stories, Professor Says|url= https://phys.org/news/2007-10-ancient-greeks-romans-good-scary.html|access-date= 2020-09-02|website= phys.org|language= en|archive-date= 13 October 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201013202820/https://phys.org/news/2007-10-ancient-greeks-romans-good-scary.html|url-status= live}}</ref> [[Mary Shelley]]'s well-known 1818 novel about [[Frankenstein]] was greatly influenced by the story of [[Hippolytus (son of Theseus)|Hippolytus]], whom [[Asclepius]] revives from death.<ref>Though the sub-title of ''Frankenstein'' references the [[titans|titan]] Prometheus, none of the ancient myths about Prometheus is itself a horror tale.</ref> [[Euripides]] wrote plays based on the story, ''Hippolytos Kalyptomenos'' and [[Hippolytus (play)|''Hippolytus'']].<ref>* Edward P. Coleridge, 1891, prose: [http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/e/euripides/hippolytus/ full text] {{webarchive|url= https://web.archive.org/web/20060412140830/http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/e/euripides/hippolytus/ |date= 12 April 2006 }}</ref> In [[Plutarch]]'s ''[[Parallel Lives]]'' in the account of [[Cimon]], the author describes the spirit of a [[murderer]], Damon, who himself was murdered in a [[Public bathing|bathhouse]] in [[Chaeronea]].<ref>* John Dryden, 1683: [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lives_(Dryden_translation)/Cimon full text] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612162201/https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lives_(Dryden_translation)/Cimon |date=12 June 2018 }}</ref>

[[Pliny the Younger]] (61 to {{circa}} 113) tells the tale of [[Athenodorus Cananites]], who bought a haunted house in [[Athens]]. Athenodorus was cautious since the house seemed inexpensive. While writing a book on philosophy, he was visited by a ghostly figure bound in chains. The figure disappeared in the courtyard; the following day, the magistrates dug in the courtyard and found an unmarked grave.<ref>
Pliny the Younger (1909–14). "LXXXIII. To Sura". In Charles W. Eliot. Letters, by Pliny the Younger; translated by [[William Melmoth the younger|William Melmoth]]; revised by F. C. T. Bosanquet. The Harvard Classics. 9. New York: P.F. Collier & Son.
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Elements of the horror genre also occur in [[Biblical]] texts, notably in the [[Book of Revelation]].<ref>
{{cite book
 | last1 = Beal
 | first1 = Timothy
 | author-link1 = Timothy Beal
 | chapter = Left Behind Again: The Rise and Fall of Evangelical Rapture Horror Culture
 | title = The Book of Revelation: A Biography
 | url =  https://books.google.com/books?id=2WaYDwAAQBAJ
 | series = Lives of Great Religious Books
 | date = 23 October 2018
 | location = Princeton
 | publisher = Princeton University Press
 | publication-date = 2018
 | page = 197
 | isbn = 9780691145839
 | access-date = 9 April 2021
 | quote = Taken together with the rapture and tribulation themes in evangelical apocalyptic horror movies, this zombie connection testifies to the variety of ways that Revelation feeds into deep, largely repressed correspondences between religion and horror in contemporary culture. 
}}
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{{cite book
 | last1 = Pippin
 | first1 = Tina
 | title = Death and Desire: The Rhetoric of Gender in the Apocalypse of John
 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=juAXEAAAQBAJ
 | publisher = 	Wipf and Stock Publishers
 | publication-date = 2021
 | page = 105
 | isbn = 9781725294189
 | access-date = 9 April 2021
 | year = 1992
 | quote = If these books were arranged in a bookstore, one would find all the women writers under 'science fiction.' The Apocalyse, on the other hand, would be found under 'horror literature.'
}}
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