frightening vs horrible

frightening

adj
  • Awful, terrible, very bad. 

  • Causing fear; of capable of causing fear; scary. 

horrible

adj
  • Tremendously bad. 

  • Causing horror; terrible; shocking. 

noun
  • A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles. 

  • A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act. 

How often have the words frightening and horrible occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )