He thus put together a collection of apparatus that would not have disgraced the set of a mad-scientist horror film, and filled it with a mixture of methane, ammonia, hydrogen and water vapour that matched contemporary ideas of what the primitive terrestrial atmosphere had been composed of.

ECONOMIST: Stanley Miller

Gruesome props and exhibits from a London horror attraction have been snapped up at a car boot sale, raising hundreds of pounds for youth acting.

BBC: Horror attraction prop sale to boost youth acting

It is as realistic a portrayal of the horror of war as I have read, by erratic turns both heroic and ignominious.

BBC: McEwan's complicated triumph

Too often in this century, nations and peoples that should have known better have exhibited a propensity for excusing or for averting their eyes from crimes of unimaginable horror and scale.

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The suggestion from Westminster ( I'm on my way there now as it happens) is that the three Plaid Cymru MPs have been watching the events of the last 48 hours with a sense of mounting horror.

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We are bonded, and I truly believe that in the face of utter horror, wherever it might occur, we have a strong pillar in this emotional connection we feel as equal human beings and not in our narrow identities prescribed by nationality or religion or race or gender.

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To the horror of some liberals in Pakistan as well as Indian observers, they have played a prominent role in relief work after the earthquake, sometimes with logistical support from the Pakistan army.

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As I watched the unspooling horror of it, a repressed, traumatic memory resurfaced, of an audition, one that must have taken place around the time this comedy troupe was formed, very likely in the same town.

NEWYORKER: Dead Man Laughing