horrorist

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

horror +‎ -ist

Noun[edit]

horrorist (plural horrorists)

  1. A writer of horror.
    • 1974, The Eighteenth Century, volumes 16-17, page 250:
      […] English literature between Milton and Wordsworth: the side that has recently been illuminated, the so-called impressionistic, sentimental, and even Gothic strain celebrating Milton, Thomson, Young, Gray, and some of the Gothic horrorists.
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