horrorist

noun

horrorist

noun

Etymology From horror + -ist.

1

A writer of horror.

[…] English literature between Milton and Wordsworth: the side that has recently been illuminated, the so-called impressionistic, sentimental, and even Gothic strain celebrating Milton, Thomson, Young, Gray, and some of the Gothic horrorists.1974, The Eighteenth Century, volumes 16-17, page 250:

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