HORROR

[noun] [U] - an extremely strong feeling of fear and shockThe crowd cried out in horror as the car burst into flames.She was filled with horror and panic when she saw the empty pill bottle.(UK informal) If you call a child a horror, you mean that he or she behaves very badly.Peter was a (real) little horror when he was four.If you have a horror of something, you hate it very much, or you are very frightened of it.Joanne has a horror of spiders.Horror of horrors (= How shocking), our old church is to be turned into a shop!A horror film (US also horror movie) is a film in which very frightening and esp. unnatural things happen, for example dead people come to life and people are murdered.A horror story is a story in which very frightening and unnatural things happen, or a report of real events in which things go wrong.Frequent flyers usually can tell a lot of airline horror stories about delayed and cancelled flights.They watched, horror-struck/horror-stricken (= full of horror) as the lion walked towards the sleeping baby.