Horror icon Horror icon A horror icon is a person or fictional character that is considered to be significant to one or more genres of horror such as film, literature, or video games. Examples of people considered to be horror icons include directors Stephen King, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Roger Corman and Wes Craven, and actors Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, Lon Chaney and Lon Chaney Jr., Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Robert Englund, Tony Todd, Tim Curry, Angus Scrimm, Brad Dourif and Christopher Lee. Fictional horror icon characters include such as Dracula, Gill-man, Frankenstein's monster, Michael Myers, Ghostface, Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Chucky, Candyman, Hannibal
Forty-seven rōnin themes in woodblock prints, or "ukiyo-e" and many well-known artists have made prints portraying either the original events, scenes from the play, or the actors. One book on subjects depicted in woodblock prints devotes no fewer than seven chapters to the history of the appearance of this theme in woodblocks. Among the artists who produced prints on this subject are Utamaro, Toyokuni, Hokusai, Kunisada, Hiroshige, and Yoshitoshi. However, probably the most widely known woodblocks in the genre are those of Kuniyoshi, who produced at least eleven separate complete series on this subject, along with more than twenty triptychs. Forty-seven rōnin