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Simon Pegg and Nick Frost play ghost hunters in the new Amazon Prime horror comedy Truth Seekers.

Liz Howard, an attorney with the nonpartisan Brennan Center for Justice who worked as a senior election official in Virginia, has her own horror story to tell.

From Fortune

Tasha Zemke, copy editor I’m loving HBO’s horror series Lovecraft Country.

In late October, you’ll get back-to-back tastes of horror-focused streamers Screambox and Shudder.

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If you’re like most people, you probably thought you nailed it on the first take only to listen in horror as you “umm” and “ahh” your way to the end.

In the end, the clarity that comes from moments of horror can help us recommit to deeper principles.

“Internationally there has been a lot of horror and contempt for her actions, domestically very little,” he said.

All of us can readily conjure up horror scenarios by the isolated person acting badly.

Sabrine says that despite the private horror of what she was going through, she was too ashamed to tell her family.

But Kent will not let us off the familiar horror hook so easily.

The king was struck with horror at the description I had given him of those terrible engines, and the proposal I had made.

But all you can think of are the horror stories about the worn out genes of Earth.

With horror she had heard her brother addressed by a disreputable costermonger in a mangy fur cap, as "Old pal."

And then she thought with horror of the confidence she had made to old Mrs. Wurzel and the brewer's daughter, not an hour before.

She craned forward, the smile gone from her lips, a horror in her eyes, her bosom heaving.

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On this page you'll find 79 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to horror, such as: apprehension, awe, consternation, disgust, dismay, and dread.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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