0 a story in which very frightening and unnatural things happen
1 a situation that someone tells you about in which something bad happens:
This useful heuristic revealed a logistical horror story.
The tragedy is that, almost every day, we hear of another horror story about one of our railway services.
When full investigations were made, what was discovered reads like a horror story.
In the earlier part of his speech, however, he allowed a positive horror story to unfold before our very eyes.
That is a horror story for one's constituents, if no other policies are pursued.
Anyway, what happened was not the horror story that people feared.
No week passes without some new horror story.
Chapter 4 of the report, in particular, is a horror story.