something that inspires dislike; something horrible, A shaking, shivering, or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever; in old medical writings, a chill of less severity than a rigor, and more marked than an algor, A genre of fiction or other artistic work evoking suspense and horror, especially through the depiction of gruesome or supernatural elements

Tremendously wrong or errant, provoking horror, Exciting, or tending to excite, horror or fear; dreadful; terrible; shocking; hideous, noun_ A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act, A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles