horror

noun

1. An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.

2. Something horrible; that which excites horror.

   “I saw many horrors during the war.”

3. Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.

4. A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.

5. An individual work in this genre.

6. colloquialA nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror.

   “The neighbour's kids are a pack of little horrors!”

7. informalAn intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors.

8. informalDelirium tremens.