Horror tropes

Horror Tropes

• Fog
• Street light
• Candles
• Lighting
• Spider webs
• Rain/thunderstorms
• Tower/castle
• Violin
• Libraries / books
• Skulls
• Cemeteries
• Deformed person who isn’t the horror focus but meant to believe it is
• Footsteps
• A mysterious door with the light on
• Creepy butler
• Large staircases
• Paintings of portraits
• Howling and wolf noises
• horses/ horses being spooked
• Carriage
• Forests
• Basement
• Secret passageways
• Shadows
• Trains
• Monster
• Always something around the corner / corners
• Reveals
• Never a modern house or refurbished house
• Dull colors
• Nightime
• Full moons
• RATS