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Psychological horror
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<p>Psychological horror is a <a href="/facts/Genre/ow1Po53X">subgenre</a> of <a href="/facts/Horror_fiction/vugIWsz8">horror</a> and <a href="/facts/Psychological_fiction/XHBd4REp">psychological fiction</a> with a particular focus on mental, emotional, and <a href="/facts/Mental_state/sHsDj380">psychological states</a> to frighten, disturb, or unsettle its audience. The subgenre frequently overlaps with the related subgenre of <a href="/facts/Psychological_thriller/TDHKgHL1">psychological thriller</a>, and often uses <a href="/facts/Mystery_fiction/6GX6KBYy">mystery</a> elements and characters with unstable, unreliable, or disturbed psychological states to enhance the <a href="/facts/Suspense/rUFa4hsU">suspense</a>, horror, drama, tension, and <a href="/facts/Paranoia/Vytxdqa8">paranoia</a> of the setting and plot and to provide an overall creepy, unpleasant, unsettling, or distressing <a href="/facts/Mood_(literature)/s7MlMzyh">atmosphere</a>. </p>