What qualifies a story as horror?

Answer 1

Characteristics on ghost stories are: The ghosts name, age, how it died, and what century its from, and why its haunting. For the people: name, age, how they found the ghost, if they are skeptics or not.

Answer 2

A Horror story typically includes elements like fear, suspense, supernatural elements, or graphic violence intended to evoke fear and unease in the audience. It aims to elicit emotional reactions such as terror, dread, or fright from the reader or viewer. The genre often deals with themes of the unknown, death, or the supernatural.

Answer 3

usually have scary music.They also have an evil character and a good character who genrally fight each other at some point in the story.Makes people have night mares.

Answer 4

well, Hollywood is in U.S.A that's where all the top rated horror movies are made.

Answer 5

Someone dies.

Answer 6

Lots of suspense