horror
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Instead he said his plans for his favorite holiday included taking his daughter trick-or-treating “somewhere in Santa Monica” and then watching Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror classic, “The Shining.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
"As I have said before, that shameful chapter of history is one that fills my heart with horror and my soul with the most profound personal sorrow," said the king.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
Other attendees at Klum's party this year included actors Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka, who surprised attendees by dressing as the twins from the horror film The Shining.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
But Haitians understand the horror of zombies to be one of dispossession, a curse enacted by enslavers that binds victims to mindless servitude, denying them liberation in the afterlife.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026
“So is there anything interesting in Deer Hill? Besides potentially living in a horror movie.”
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
Not only do we carry the horrors of the universe in our pockets, we spend most of our waking hours gazing into that abyss in the name of staying informed.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026
Yet the same colonial project that produced such horrors also gave Spenser the resources to create one of the great literary works of his age.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
The script prefers to show horrors without dwelling on them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Hospital staff informed law enforcement, and when police arrived at their home they discovered three different rooms called "learning centres" under the supervision of multiple nannies, which Hochman described as a "house of horrors".
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
“You’re exposing him to horrors no kid should be exposed to—much less one who’s sick—and you call that therapy?”
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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