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Horror and Terror are there differences?


Horror and Terror are often confused with each other, perhaps due to a morphological harmony and, why not, to an acoustic synchrony. The truth is Terror and Horror operate as synonyms, although they are not; neither are they the same nor do they allude to the same sensation. To feel terror and to feel horror is to feel two different things.
In our language the word "terror" is used more often, for example, to fit a style of story or novel. There are countless horror stories but few horror stories - at least that's what the editors would have us believe.

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In other languages ​​the reverse path has been taken, horror stories abound while the word "terror" is rarely associated with narrative. When we read a horror story, for example, by H.P. Lovecraft or Algernon Blackwood, we are actually reading a horror story.
Let's adjust the magnifying glass to discover what are the differences between Horror and Terror. In the first place, Terror designates an intense, visceral, uncontrollable fear; The cause of which is known and natural, while Horror is a strong sensation caused by something frightening, which does not necessarily provoke fear, but also aversion, rejection and repulsion.

For many scholars, Terror designates something that scares, but at the same time has rational causes, that is, it belongs to the natural order of things, even when it involves the presence of a murderer, a war, a massacre, or a genocide. That is, the Terror is unleashed by what the natural world can produce, even in its most aberrant facets. Horror, on the other hand, comes from paranormal causes; it implies entities and creatures far from the known universe.


To put it in other terms, it is legitimate to fear death and be horrified by ghosts. Horror offers a much larger and unexplored field for the artist, as there are no limits to his abominations. Terror is confined to what is while Horror explores what could be. Terror reconciles us with the most dire possibilities of reality, while Horror generates a break with reality.



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These differences are better marked when we investigate the origin of both words.

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For example, the word Terror comes from the Latin Terror; something like "intense fear". Both derive from the Indoerupean root Tre, "trembling, trembling." Although in languages ​​like English the word Terror is also used -taken from the old French Terreur-, it must also be said that in the Middle Ages, and even beyond, they had terms that designated the same thing, such as Broga and Egesa. The word Horror was equally adopted by all. Its origin is in the Latin Horror, and designates an unstoppable restlessness before the ominous, before the cosmic, the divine. Its roots are in the Indo-European Gher, "tremble, bristle".

Horror is what one feels before gods and demons, faced with the possibility of a rift between the real and the eternal, before the White Goddess cited by Robert Graves, while Terror can - and often does - adopt the mask banal of everyday violence.



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