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• Their arguments often develop the sudden intrusion into an area of normality of some force, event or character of evil nature, often criminal or supernatural origin. In this supernatural horror dye, has been frequent appearance of ghosts and monsters classics such as werewolves, vampires or zombies, who drink of superstition and traditional scary stories and other modern monsters, like the unfortunate human replicas style Frankenstein, which originated in the novel of terror born in the second half of the eighteenth century, so that often scarce
the authors draw the outline of contemporary terror, few of us have got the fear in the body with the ominous claustrophobia of an elevator or reverberant silence those modern underground car crypts. No one expects to find a vampire under his bed, but it can be a dizzying demented lurking in your computer screen.

• They often include what is called gore, ie blood, body fluids and small pieces of meat explicitly.
• Spaces or typical scenarios have traditionally been the cemetery, abandoned house, the castle ruins, the laboratory gloomy forest or wasteland decaying dark and garden that have finished making up a list of "places" in common.
In recent years, we witness, however, a search "of the visceral, as a lever of the urban environment, abandoning metaphysical fears of eternal damnation and gloomy mansions wuthering."

Formal
• Its structure is typical of a short story (6 to 10 p., but usually 8), with a shocking denouement in which the bullet striking reserves even to "page on the left, so that more surprised the reader to turn the page. " This approach would be developed by EC Comics in the 50's and updated by Warren Publishing in the 60 and 70 of the last century, giving at present a greater variety of structures.

• The rule of realistic drawing.

• Use shades and black and white.

History
 Origins (1945-1954)
The genre was barely discussed in the story throughout the first half of the twentieth century, as producers and distributors of the comic strip preferred to avoid problems with potential publishers and subscribers who have rejected a genre that has never been considered "fit for children ", opting to please everyone.
The comic books with original material appeared in 1929, but also began to address the gender until the appearance of Frankenstein Comics (1945), after the genre of superheroes wane after World War II. The most prominent were Tales from the Crypt (Tales from the Crypt "), The Vault of Horror (" The Vault of Horrors ") and The Haunt of Fear (" The Haunting of fear ") to EC Comics. In their stories from 6 to 8 pages appeared frequently ironic characters destinations while gloomy. Each story of horror titles were always presented one of the hosts of horror, each of them the "owner" of a series: Keeper of the Crypt for "Tales from the Crypt", the Guardian of the vault "The Vault of Horror" and the Crone for "The Haunt of Fear." Besides commenting jokingly unpleasant details of the stories, these characters they got with each other, displaying an array of barbs and even insulting to readers ("Hello, boils and Undead ,..."). Along with the story of crime, its contents were strongly controlled by the creation of the Comics Code Authority in 1954, which limited a great extent the references to horror and terror in comics. In the same vein was generated restrictive legislation in England and Canadá.Es Spain, the most prominent series of the genre was The Patrol Inspector Dan Volante (1947) Eugenio Giner
. Interlude (1955-1963) Although this is a time of decline of the genre, can be highlighted Cemetery portals Kitaro (1959), the mangaka Shigeru Mizuki or popular fumetto nero, appeared in the early sixties in Italy, with characters
as Satanik, Diabolik and Kriminal.
The "boom" years of 70 (1964-1983)
The surprise ending short stories that had been characteristic of the EC Comic magazines would be recreated in black and white "Creepy" (1964), "Eerie" (1966) and "Vampirella" (1969) by Warren Publishing, heading and to adults and therefore ignored the constraints of the Comics Code. From 1972 to 1974 the artists of the Spanish agency Selecciones Illustrated drew 80% of its contents and most of their covers, and his work, to be published later in his country of origin, would be central to the so-called adult comics boom in Spain, thanks to magazines like Black Dossier (1968), Dracula and Vampus 1971; Panic (1972), Rufus, 1973; Vampirella in 1974, or SOS (1975) and Creepy in 1979. Gender have identical success in countries like Germany and especially Italy, where magazines such as Linus or Il Mago, Milan, published adaptations of Poe or Lovecraft by Dino Battaglia and Alberto Breccia.
Even American publishers DC and Marvel Comics, superheroes largely devoted to diversify their production to "Swamp Thing" (1971), Len Wein / Berni Wrightson, or "Tomb of Dracula" (1972-1979), of Marv Wolfman / Gene Colan, respectively. This past year, Go Nagai Devilman.La also started renovation (1984 -) After the closing of the Warren magazines in 1983, the genre would attend a "nineteenth-century renewal of his speech that no longer scares anyone" of the labor
authors such as Alan Moore during his time in Swamp Thing (1984) and Suehiro Maruo in works such as the vampire's smile (1998).