Fear was accompanying man scince ever.From fear refer buddism and hinduism, Old Testament, mitology is full of cruelty. However,
not each and every work of art, that awe, is a
horror. This genre was formed not before the turn of XVIII and XIX age in shape of a gothic novel. Modern horror includes everything that we''re afraid of or what we don''t know, eg. Supernatural world, which''s delegate is a monster. The point of horror is to awe. It is made out by a story, which conceal some kind of a secret. Nowadays, horrors outlasts they''rerenaissance- maybe becouse it expresses universal
fears. Horror always reflects spirit and fears of it''s days.