Horror Subgenres:

Susan Hayward: subgenres of horror are Supernatural, psychological and body horror. (12 April 2006 Cinema

Studies: The Key Concepts.)

Cross Genre: horror tales are almost-overriding elements of another major genre,
a cross-genre (or hybrid genre) in fiction that combines elements from two or more different genres together.
Roy Stafford -repetition and difference and repertoire of elements (Branston and Strafford The Media Students book 1996)

Gothic (English gothic, southern gothic): Many of these tales involve an evil from the past, as with haunted mansions and/or encroaching personal insanity.
Steve Neale: Genres are instances of repetition and difference. Difference is absolutely essential to the economy of genre. Genres are not systems, they are processes each film is processed with a repertoire of elements and by the repertoire used they are then grouped into genres.

Hauntings: The persistent ghost is a specific individual or group, somehow connected to the building or protagonist. An example is A Nightmare on Elm Street by
Wes Craven (1984) this movie relates to the haunting subgenre as group of teenagers were being stalked in their dreams by an enigmatic man named Freddy Krueger. Thomas Schatz, 2004: If we extend these ideas into genre study, we might think of the film genre as a specific grammar or system of rules of expression and construction and the individual genre film as a manifestation of these rules.

Holocaust: tales involve mass deaths, whether during the horrific 20th century event; or involving a similar tragedy, past or future. Those deaths might be due to human slaughter, or from a plague or monsters. In a few bizarre versions, everyone has already died, and today's humanity is the replacement -but doesn't know it. Mind Control horror exploits this particular fear. The method may be sorcerous or technological, but the victims are compelled to act against their will and better natures- while fully aware of what's happening. For example: sinister by Scott
Derrickson. (2010) this links to the mind control subgenre as the children were controlled by Bughuul.

Noir horror is a descriptive subgenre. It invokes a gritty urban setting, like its counterparts in other major genres: Weary, cynical characters populate these tales for example mama by Andres Muschietti (2013) links to noir subgenre as the
character of mama is in a cynical spirit form.

Paranormal is a subgenre with mortal/ immortal heroes. The tales emphasize a difficult battle against evil supernatural encroachment, by a saintly exorcist or high-tech Ghostbusters. For example the paranormal activity by Ariel Schulman,
Henry Joost, Christopher B. Landon, Oren Peli, Tod Williams (2009) paranormal activity relates to this subgenre as excorists take place as well as the fact that there is a significant supernatural evil.

Psychological (surreal): This subgenre is usually written from a tight viewpoint. The protagonist really seeing terrible things, perhaps battling against demonic possession -- or is she/he going insane? This subgenre can feature an insane protagonist, such as a tormented serial killer. Supernatural (demons, zombies, etc.): These stories focus on various types of monsters from 'beyond,' persistently ruining the lives of a suffering humanity; the setting normally is an isolated village, where the protagonist becomes stranded. The movie Frankenstein (1994) by Kenneth Branagh is an example of supernatural as
in the movie Victor creates his creation which becomes the monster, and leads him to running for his life as his creation figures out that after Victor had created it he chose to reject its existence.

H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature:

The one test of the really weird (story) is simply this--whether or not there be excited in the reader a profound sense of dread, and of contact with unknown.

Weird (bizarre): This is a descriptive category--in a genre which is comprised of nothing but weird!
H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature: The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown