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Dark fantasy or fantasy horror is a subgenre of literary, artistic, and cinematic fantasy works that incorporates disturbing and frightening themes. The term is ambiguously used to describe stories that combine horror elements with one or another of the standard formulas of fantasy.
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| William Beckford's Vathek | instance of | while a story about a serial killer would simply be horror.Stableford suggests that the type of horror conveyed by fantasy stories | 0.80 | text |
| Edgar Allan Poe's The Masque of the Red Death | instance of | while a story about a serial killer would simply be horror.Stableford suggests that the type of horror conveyed by fantasy stories | 0.80 | text |
| Dark fantasy | related to Anime and manga | Berserk | 0.60 | section |
| Dark fantasy | related to Anime and manga | Kentaro Miura | 0.60 | section |
| Dark fantasy | related to Anime and manga | Attack | 0.60 | section |
| Dark fantasy | related to Anime and manga | Titan | 0.60 | section |
| Dark fantasy | related to Definition | Gertrude Barrows Bennett | 0.60 | section |
| Dark fantasy | related to Definition | Both Charles | 0.60 | section |
| Dark fantasy | related to Definition | Grant | 0.60 | section |
| Dark fantasy | related to Definition | Karl Edward Wagner | 0.60 | section |
| Dark fantasy | related to Definition | Brian Stableford | 0.60 | section |
| Dark fantasy | related to Definition | Stableford | 0.60 | section |
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