Many items appear quite consistently in horror, particularly in films, although a lot of these show up just as often in novels.
- dead bodies
- caskets/coffins
- castles
- graveyards
- hooded robes
- bats
- wolves
- young women being crept up on while sleeping
- candles
- spiderwebs/cobwebs
- spiders
- death personified
- tombs
- ghosts
- witchcraft
- hidden rooms
- trapdoors
- booby traps
- madness/someone going mad
- resurrecting the dead
- machines
- dungeons
- torture
- haunted house
- mysterious sounds at night
- storms/lightning
- clock ticking
- travel by night
- brains
- hunchbacks/physical deformities
