noun

• (countable, uncountable) An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
• (countable, uncountable) Something horrible; that which excites horror.
• (countable, uncountable) Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
• (uncountable) A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
• (countable) An individual work in this genre.
• (countable, colloquial) A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror.
• (informal) An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors.
• (in the plural, informal) Delirium tremens.