Horror comedy

Horror comedy, also known as comedy horror, is a subgenre that combines element of both the comedy and horror genres.
== History ==
Comedy and horror have long gone hand in hand and is it is difficult to discern the definitive beginnings of the genre. One of the earliest notable examples was the short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving. The tale featured a teacher being attacked by a "headless horseman", who is implied to be a romantic rival in disguise at the end of the story. Following the publication of Frankenstein, there were a number of parodies of the groundbreaking work. Tonally, Edgar Allen Poe's own work was famous for including horror within his horror works. 
In the early days of film, Georges Méliès, one of the first film directors, used his own knowledge of stage magic and editing trickery to create short films considered both frightening and amusing and playful. There were also some contemporary plays that combined fear and comedy, many of which would become films, such as the Ghost Breaker, which premiered as a play in 1909 and as a film in 1914. following World War I, there was more demand for horror but was generally more accepted when it also included humour. One groundbreaking horror comedy, sometimes considered a pioneer in the genre, was D.W. Griffith's silent horror mystery One Exciting Night, based on the popular stage play of the same name.
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