Horror Tropes
Basic Information
Horror tropes are genre tropes that frequently appear in horror stories.
List of Horror Tropes
- Abandoned Hospital
- A House Divided
- Alien Geometries
- And I Must Scream
- Apocalyptic Log
- Attack Of The Killer Whatever
- Beware Of Hitchhiking Ghosts
- Body Horror
- Broken Heel
- Buried Alive
- The Bus
- Campbell Country
- Candlelit Bath
- Cannibal Clan
- Cat Scare
- Chinese Vampire
- Cobweb Jungle
- Connect The Deaths
- The Corruption
- Cosmic Horror
- Creepy Child
- Crusty Caretaker
- Curiosity Killed The Cast
- Danger Takes A Back Seat
- Dark World
- Darkness Equals Death
- Deadly Prank
- Death By Materialism
- Death By Mocking
- Death By Sex
- Defanged Horrors
- Distress Call
- Distressed Damsel
- The End Of The World As We Know It
- Everybodys Dead Dave
- Evil Hand
- Evil Phone
- Eye Scream
- Face Revealing Turn
- Faux Horror Film
- A Fete Worse Than Death
- Final Girl
- Freak Lab Accident
- Ghost Butler
- Ghost City
- Giant Spider
- Gory Discretion Shot
- Hammer Horror
- Haunted Castle
- Haunted Heroine
- Hazardous Water
- Hell Hotel
- Hell Is Coming With Me
- Homicide Machines
- Human To Werewolf Footprints
- Horny Devils
- I Hate You Vampire Dad
- Indian Burial Ground
- Infernal Retaliation
- In The Mouth Of Madness
- Ironic Nursery Tune
- Kaiju
- Kensington Gore
- Last Dance With Mary Jane
- The Little Shop That Wasnt There Yesterday
- Living Shadow
- Made Of Plasticine
- Man Eating Plant
- Meaningful Background Event
- Menstrual Menace
- Mirror Scare
- Mummy
- Night Of The Living Mooks
- Nothing But Skulls
- Not Using The Zed Word
- Offscreen Teleportation
- Or Is It
- Ominous Crack
- Once Is Not Enough
- Our Vampires Are Different
- Our Werewolves Are Different
- Peek A Boo Corpse
- Picky People Eater
- Prank Date
- Rain Of Blood
- Room 101
- Room Full Of Crazy
- Rule Of Scary
- Scare Chord
- Scary Scarecrows
- Screamer Trailer
- Screaming Woman
- See Thru Specs
- Shadow Discretion Shot
- Sinister Chorus
- Sinister Subway
- Sorting Algorithm Of Mortality
- Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
- Supernatural Proof Father
- The Horror
- These Are Things Man Was Not Meant To Know
- Touch Of The Monster
- Tome Of Eldritch Lore
- Torture Cellar
- Town With A Dark Secret
- Twenty Minutes With Jerks
- Uberwald
- Ultimate Evil
- Undead Author
- Unfinished Business
- Urban Legends
- Vagina Dentata
- Very Loosely Based On A True Story
- The Virus
- Walking Backwards
- Wax Museum Morgue
- What Happened To Mommy?
- What You See Is What You Get
- Who You Gonna Call
- With Great Power Comes Great Insanity
- The Worm That Walks
- You Look Like Youve Seen A Ghost
- Zombie Apocalypse
See Also
Sources
Game and Story Use
- Use liberally to scare the player characters… and hopefully the players as well.
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