In 1999, before Al Gore taught the world about climate change, an ex-horror fiction writer named Whitley Streiber and a supernatural radio show host named Art Bell joined forces to write The Coming Global Superstorm.

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Literary writers like Colson Whitehead and Michael Chabon have experimented with horror and science-fiction themes.

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Ackerman founded a cult magazine, Famous Monsters of Filmland, and, more lucratively, became an agent for horror and science-fiction writers.

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That's what made money for the big pulp-comics companies: superhero stuff, mostly, but sometimes horror or romance or science fiction or crime comics, each of which has its own familiar codes and formulas.

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He moved on to the Oz books by L. Frank Baum, the Tarzan and Martian adventures by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the classic science fiction of Jules Verne and horror of Edgar Allan Poe.

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This leads to the means for distinguishing fantasy from the far broader category of the fantastic, which includes a vast range of other forms such as horror, fabulation, surrealism and science fiction, the subject of an earlier excellent encyclopedia edited by Mr Clute and Peter Nicholls.

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Genre writers make a conscious choice to write within the framework of specific categories that readers and filmgoers know: horror, suspense, crime, science-fiction, western.

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" But she said that like a horror movie, the government's account is "pure fiction.

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Other genres to suffer declines include science fiction and fantasy which is down 25% and horror, down 30%.

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