horror story
noun [C]Definition
› a story in which very frightening and unnatural things happenAccounts and storiesSummaries and summarising › a report of real events in which things have gone very wrong: the usual travel horror stories about delays at the airport and flight cancellationsAccounts and storiesSummaries and summarising
(Definition of horror story noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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