Horror

Horror was an emotion.
On Wengrol, the sight of the mutated Yend constantly shapeshifting filled the First Doctor with horror. (PROSE: ) On an unnamed planet, Maaga said that she would imagine the fear and horror the Rills would experience just before their deaths. (TV: ) The Fifth Doctor noted that any mention of the Dark Days filled the Castellan with horror. (TV: ) At Villa Diodati in 1816, Mary Shelley hoped to hear a story that would awaken thrilling horror. (TV: )
"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: ) On Skaro, Ganatus stated that there was horror in the Lake of Mutations. (TV: ) In Mexico, Susan described the Aztec civilisation as "beauty and horror developing hand in hand." (TV: ) Edward Waterfield said that the Daleks had forced him into the horror of time travel. (TV: ) On Dulkis, Dulcian students were brought to the Island of Death to show them the horror of radiation. (TV: ) In Vorg's miniscope, Jo Grant referred to the Drashigs as horrors. (TV: ) Richard Dunbar referred to a Krynoid as a horror. (TV: ) On Earth in the distant past, Megron described the planet as being racked and torn by the horror of its volcanoes. (AUDIO: ) George Litefoot wondered what unspeakable horror lay behind Magnus Greel's mask. (TV: ) The Fourth Doctor referred to the Fendahl as a mythological horror. (TV: ) The Seventh Doctor referred to the evil Ace had sensed in Gabriel Chase in 1983 as a horror. (TV: ) In 1943, Ace playfully referred to the infant Audrey Dudman as "the little horror." (TV: ) In 2009, Clyde Langer called Spellman's Magical Museum of the Circus "the Circus of Horrors." (TV: ) In 2011, Gwen Cooper recalled having seen horror with Jack Harkness. (TV: ) In 1893, the effects of red leech venom on people came to be known as "the Crimson Horror." (TV: ) 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: ) On Gallifrey, Ohila warned Rassilon that the Doctor did not blame the whole planet for the horrors of the Time War–just him. (TV: ) On a Mondasian colony ship, told Bill Potts that her positive attitude would help with the horror to come–mainly the tea. (TV: )
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: ) Edith Randall believed that Bea Nelson-Stanley's talk about encounters with aliens and monsters were just distorted memories of old horror movies. (TV: ) Alien was the title of a horror movie, which the Doctor found really offensive. (TV: ) 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: )
Category:Emotions