horror vs monster

horror

noun
  • A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror. 

  • An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance. 

  • A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense. 

  • An individual work in this genre. 

  • Delirium tremens. 

  • Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence. 

  • Something horrible; that which excites horror. 

  • An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors. 

monster

noun
  • A cruel, heartless, or antisocial person, especially a criminal. 

  • A terrifying and dangerous creature. 

  • A bizarre or whimsical creature. 

  • Something unusually large. 

  • A prodigy; someone very talented in a specific domain. 

  • A badly behaved child, a brat. 

  • A non-player character that player(s) fight against in role-playing games. 

verb
  • To harass. 

  • To make into a monster; to categorise as a monster; to demonise. 

  • To behave as a monster to; to terrorise. 

  • To play (a series of) non-player characters as directed, without having the responsibility of organising the game itself; generally not limited to playing literal monsters or hostile combatants. 

adj
  • Great; very good; excellent. 

  • Very large; worthy of a monster. 

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