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.

supernatural horror

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

Gothic-horror fiction

The book is a foray into the genre of Gothic-horror fiction and one of the first of Gothic-horror fiction's kind.

supernatural horror story

the story’s more of a supernatural horror 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, 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.

psychological horror

The series is only roughly based on the Shirley Jackson novel but pays homage to the Shirley Jackson novel in a very distinctive way–an emphasis on psychological 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.

supernatural fiction

The series is a supernatural fiction, which focuses on a different aspect of paranormal activity, such as ghosts, zombies, phantoms, undead persons, possessed objects and witches and wizards.

paranormal thriller

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

gothic drama

A ghost story such as this is less a horror movie, and more of a gothic drama with love triangles, betrayal, and murder, all set against the backdrop of a terrible war with no end in sight.

thriller-mystery

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

thrillers

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

thrillerish

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

Gothic novel

The book is written in the style of a Gothic novel, with all the haunting imagery, strange occurrences and mystery that this generally evokes.

Gothic thriller

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

hair-raising ghost story

Based on the acclaimed novel by 'Queen of Icelandic Crime' Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, this atmospheric chiller is both a hair-raising ghost story and a powerful tale of life beyond death.

paranormal

It deals with the paranormal, but the paranormal is more about alienation and loneliness and how strange life can be than ghosts and goblins.

part thriller

The plot is "part thriller about lovers being sacrificed to a monster, part burlesque sending up pseudo-classical and early romantic emotions".