This readme file was generated on [2026-06-12] by [Anna Zatora]


GENERAL INFORMATION

Title of Dataset: Literary Horror in Poland — Review of Genre Categories 

Author/Principal Investigator Information
Name: Anna Zatora
ORCID: 0000-0003-4597-5568
Institution: University of Lodz
Address: ul. Pomorska 171/173, 90-236 Łódź (Poland)
Email: anna.zatora@lib.uni.lodz.pl


- Date of data collection: from 2025-08-10, to 2026-02-11.
- Geographic location of data collection: Poland.
- Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the data: This research was funded by the National Science Centre, Poland, project no. 2025/09/X/HS2/00397.


SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION

- Licenses/restrictions placed on the data: Data available under a CC BY license.
- Recommended citation for this dataset: Zatora A. (2026). Literary Horror in Poland —— Review of Genre Categories. Dataset. University of Lodz Repository, HANDLE: .


DATA & FILE OVERVIEW

File List: 
'result_of_the_reasearch_in_Polish' — Data on the categorisation of Polish literary horror published between 2020 and 2025, compiled in an Excel spreadsheet in XLSX format.
'methodology_in_Polish' — Information on the methodology of the study and how its results are presented in PDF format.
'readme' — This file with metadata in TXT format.

- Relationship between files, if important: File 'methodology_in_Polish' is required to correctly read the data contained in File 'result_of_the_reasearch_in_Polish'. 
- Additional related data collected that was not included in the current data package: Zatora A. (2026). Literary Horror in Poland — Survey for Publishers. Dataset. University of Lodz Repository, http://hdl.handle.net/11089/58256. 
- Are there multiple versions of the dataset? — No.

METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION

Description of methods used for collection/generation of data: Description of project — https://radon.nauka.gov.pl/dane/profil/6895797b6c775c7b87d5973a 

Methods for processing the data: The data was entered into a real-time Microsoft Excel document in the cloud under a licence held by the University of Łódź. The data was corrected and exported to an XLSX file by the researcher.

Instrument- or software-specific information needed to interpret the data: Not applicable.