horrorscape

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

horror +‎ -scape

Noun[edit]

horrorscape (plural horrorscapes)

  1. A horrific landscape.
    • 2023 October 15, Sam Kriss, “Bread, Figs, Phosphorus”, in Numb at the Lodge[1], archived from the original on 2023-10-15:
      The city with the good fruit and the good bread has been turned into a stateless cyberpunk horrorscape, the bad dream of modernity, a zone of continually expanding human biomass, but where all the infrastructure that makes modern cities inhabitable has been bombed flat, so the streets are periodically flooded with raw sewage.