horrormonger means A person who peddles horror, or horrific tales. It carries an Arena rating of 1471, earned across 9 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, horrormonger ranks #822 of 17,163 for Funniest Words, #3,032 of 17,138 for Most Incisive Words, #3,145 of 17,127 for Most Vivid Words, #4,740 of 17,134 for Most Malleable Words.
Why “horrormonger” is a great word
A person who promotes, spreads, or trades in horror stories or sensationalistic accounts of frightening events. From Latin *horror* ("dread, shuddering") + Old English *mangere* ("merchant, trader"). Unlike a "horror writer," who crafts fiction from the shadows, or a "fearmonger," who deals in the currency of real-world alarm, the horrormonger is a genre-specific profiteer of the sensational shudder. It is the carnival barker outside a tent of waxen atrocities; the publisher of cheap true-crime pamphlets with lurid covers; the radio host whose velvet voice sells suburban phantoms—a merchant of manufactured nightmares, reminding us that our oldest fears are also someone else's inventory.
Etymology
From horror + monger.
noun
- A person who peddles horror, or horrific tales.
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