This document outlines common tropes and elements found in horror genre fiction including antagonists such as serial killers, ghosts, vampires and zombies. It also lists locations typically featured like haunted houses, dark forests, abandoned cabins and deserts. Finally, it identifies protagonists such as vampire hunters and college kids as well as sub-genres like slasher horror, gothic horror, splatter horror, apocalyptic horror and psychological horror.

1. Serial killers Ghosts/Spirits Vampires Haunted house Dark forest
Deserts
Zombies
Antagonists Location
Abandoned
Cabins
Cannibals
HORROR GENRE
Protagonists Sub-Genres Slasher Horror
Vampire
Hunters
Gothic Horror
Splatter Horror
College Kids
Survivors of an Apocalypse Psychological
Apocalypse Horror Horror