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Horror (disambiguation)for other, similarly-named pages.
Horror was an emotion.
On Wengrol, the sight of the mutated Yend constantly shapeshifting filled the First Doctor with horror. (PROSE: The Sons of the Crab [+]The Dr Who Annual 1966 (Doctor Who annual, 1965).) On an unnamed planet, Maaga said that she would imagine the fear and horror the Rills would experience just before their deaths. (TV: "Airlock" [+]Part of Galaxy 4, William Emms, Doctor Who season 3 (BBC1, 1965).) The Fifth Doctor noted that any mention of the Dark Days filled the Castellan with horror. (TV: The Five Doctors [+]Terrance Dicks, Doctor Who 20th Anniversary Special (Public Broadcasting Service, 1983).) At Villa Diodati in 1816, Mary Shelley hoped to hear a story that would awaken thrilling horror. (TV: The Haunting of Villa Diodati [+]Maxine Alderton, Doctor Who series 12 (BBC One, 2020).)
"Horror" also referred to things which caused horror. Susan Foreman had seen horror before on screens and behind glass, but had never encountered creatures like the foxes she saw on Iwa before. (PROSE: Frayed [+]Tara Samms, Telos Doctor Who novellas (Telos Publishing, 2003).) On Skaro, Ganatus stated that there was horror in the Lake of Mutations. (TV: "The Expedition" [+]Part of The Daleks, Terry Nation, Doctor Who season 1 (BBC tv, 1963-1964).) In Mexico, Susan described the Aztec civilisation as "beauty and horror developing hand in hand." (TV: "The Temple of Evil" [+]Part of The Aztecs, John Lucarotti, Doctor Who season 1 (BBC1, 1964).) Edward Waterfield said that the Daleks had forced him into the horror of time travel. (TV: The Evil of the Daleks [+]David Whitaker, Doctor Who season 4 (BBC1, 1967).) On Dulkis, Dulcian students were brought to the Island of Death to show them the horror of radiation. (TV: The Dominators [+]Norman Ashby, Doctor Who season 6 (BBC1, 1968).) In Vorg's miniscope, Jo Grant referred to the Drashigs as horrors. (TV: Carnival of Monsters [+]Robert Holmes, Doctor Who season 10 (BBC1, 1973).) Richard Dunbar referred to a Krynoid as a horror. (TV: The Seeds of Doom [+]Robert Banks Stewart, Doctor Who season 13 (BBC1, 1976).) On Earth in the distant past, Megron described the planet as being racked and torn by the horror of its volcanoes. (AUDIO: Exploration Earth [+]Bernard Venables, BBC Audio Dramas (BBC Radio, 1976).) George Litefoot wondered what unspeakable horror lay behind Magnus Greel's mask. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang [+]Robert Holmes, Doctor Who season 14 (BBC1, 1977).) The Fourth Doctor referred to the Fendahl as a mythological horror. (TV: Image of the Fendahl [+]Chris Boucher, Doctor Who season 15 (BBC1, 1977).) The Seventh Doctor referred to the evil Ace had sensed in Gabriel Chase in 1983 as a horror. (TV: Ghost Light [+]Marc Platt, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).) In 1943, Ace playfully referred to the infant Audrey Dudman as "the little horror." (TV: The Curse of Fenric [+]Ian Briggs, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).) In 2009, Clyde Langer called Spellman's Magical Museum of the Circus "the Circus of Horrors." (TV: The Day of the Clown [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 2 (CBBC, 2008).) In 2011, Gwen Cooper recalled having seen horror with Jack Harkness. (TV: Immortal Sins [+]Jane Espenson, Torchwood series 4 (Starz, 2011).) In 1893, the effects of red leech venom on people came to be known as "the Crimson Horror." (TV: The Crimson Horror [+]Mark Gatiss, Doctor Who series 7 (BBC One, 2013).) In London in 1651, the Twelfth Doctor warned Ashildr that she had no idea what horrors might come through the portal the Eyes of Hades would open. (TV: The Woman Who Lived [+]Catherine Tregenna, Doctor Who series 9 (BBC One, 2015).) On Gallifrey, Ohila warned Rassilon that the Doctor did not blame the whole planet for the horrors of the Time War–just him. (TV: Hell Bent [+]Steven Moffat, Doctor Who series 9 (BBC One, 2015).) On a Mondasian colony ship, the Saxon Master told Bill Potts that her positive attitude would help with the horror to come–mainly the tea. (TV: World Enough and Time [+]Steven Moffat, Doctor Who series 10 (BBC One, 2017).)
Horror was also a genre of fiction. On 21st century Earth, Rebecca Cox read weird European horror novels, while Calvin Palmer and his friends played horror computer games. (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Warhead [+]Andrew Cartmel, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1992).) Edith Randall believed that Bea Nelson-Stanley's talk about encounters with aliens and monsters were just distorted memories of old horror movies. (TV: Eye of the Gorgon [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 1 (CBBC|CBBC]], 2007).) Alien was the title of a horror movie, which the Doctor found really offensive. (TV: Last Christmas [+]Steven Moffat, Doctor Who Christmas Special 2014 (BBC One, 2014).) Horror movies did not exist on Traken. When Tegan Jovanka explained the genre to Nyssa, she was repelled, as such glorification of evil and violence was alien to the Trakenites. (PROSE: The Eternity Contract [+]Steve Lyons, More Short Trips (Short Trips short stories, 1999).)