horror

The Haunting of Morella is a 1990 horror film directed by Jim Wynorski.

horror fiction

As such, the book falls in the genre of horror fiction.

gothic fiction and a ghost story

Classified as both gothic fiction and a ghost story, the novella focuses on a governess who, caring for two children at a remote estate, becomes convinced that the grounds are haunted.

horror/thriller

Where does this film fit in the horror/thriller genre?

fantasy horror

The book is categorized as 'fantasy horror' and the story definitely lives up to the story .

horror thriller

Set in Los Angeles in the 1970s, the horror thriller brings alive the Latin American legend of La Llorona, who is believed to stalk the night and prey on children.

horror film

While the premise may seem very reminiscent of a horror film, exorcism and ghost story films especially, this genre plays merely a supporting character in a film that is more interested in utilizing compositions of culture and tradition and mixing tradition with history.

supernatural horror

the traditional fiction categories’s a supernatural horror story with very little actual horror, but a ton of subtle foreboding.

Gothic horror-romance

Relatedly, the tone swings wildly around - is the tone a Gothic horror-romance?

science fiction

The genres into which the story falls include horror and science fiction.

thrillers

The story is centered around supernatural, thrillers, and anything that’s eerie, creepy, or disturbingly bizarre.

thriller-mystery

The film belongs to a bit of a thriller-mystery type genre, with horror overtones.

mystery

Its tropes include terror (both psychological and physical), mystery, the supernatural, ghosts, haunted houses and Gothic architecture, castles, darkness, death, decay, doubles, madness, secrets and hereditary curses.

horror, dark fantasy, supernatural suspense

Regardless of how this novel (and series) is marketed—horror, dark fantasy, supernatural suspense, etc.— the narrative seed is a ghost story, like the timeless and treasured paranormal mysteries of the early 1900s by Algernon Blackwood and Cherie Priest’s Eden Moore and Kat Richardson’s Greywalker sagas of the early 2000’s.

Gothic thriller

When Moreland's body mysteriously vanishes, murder and mayhem become the key facets in this Gothic thriller set in 1874.

ghostly thriller

This book markets itself as a ghostly thriller, but that sadly isn’t what what delivers.

thrillerish

The story plays in the darker times of our history and is more ‘thrillerish’ than horror.

paranormal thriller

While this book is not straight horror, this book is a paranormal thriller with some horror elements.

gothic, creepy tale, instead of shocking horror

the story was more of a gothic, creepy tale, instead of shocking horror.

paranormal police procedural thriller

The title on this one may seem a bit misleading; this one suggests something more along the lines of historic fantasy/romance, but this one ’s really more a paranormal police procedural thriller with strong historical interludes.