| dc.contributor.author | Zatora, Anna | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-06-13T12:01:32Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-06-13T12:01:32Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2026-06-13 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Zatora A. (2026). Literary Horror in Poland — Review of Genre Categories. Dataset. University of Lodz Repository, http://hdl.handle.net/11089/58507 | pl_PL |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11089/58507 | |
| dc.description | The project “Horror in many editions — literary horror and its genres on the contemporary Polish publishing market” concerns literary horror, whose existing genre definitions prove insufficient. As a category (aesthetic, narrative), horror functions in parallel in other media, mainly in film and digital games, and its representations draw on each other, creating a genre- and aesthetic-rich universe. Horror requires an interdisciplinary approach, going beyond the methodology used in traditional literary studies and combining comprehensive genre analysis with research into the publishing market and media related to reading and literature. The aim of the preliminary study is to test the proposed methodology on a small sample: Polish literary horror of the last five years. The research involves an analysis of the publishing market in Poland in 2020–2025 based on: (1) a survey addressed to selected publishers specializing in popular literature, (2) a review of the classification of Polish horror literature and related literary genres on popular social media platforms for readers, (3) a review of Polish literature classified as horror based on catalogs/websites and popular online bookstores and e-book providers, (4) a review of Polish literature classified as horror based on the catalogs of the National Library and verification of the results with marketing classifications (publishers, bookstores), (5) a preliminary review of literature by Polish authors published in the last five years and an attempt to verify the publishing classification based on literary analysis. The proposed preliminary research allows us to test how the interdisciplinary approach works in the analysis of literary horror and enables further in-depth research. | pl_PL |
| dc.description.abstract | Dane zostały zebrane w ramach projektu „Groza w wielu wydaniach — horror literacki i jego odmiany na współczesnym polskim rynku wydawniczym” (Narodowe Centrum Nauki). Zawierają wyniki części drugiej badania polegającego na analizie kategorii gatunkowych nadawanych utworom literackim przez wydawcę, Bibliotekę Narodową, portal dla czytelników LubimyCzytać, platformę subskrypcyjną Legimi, a także sieci dystrybucji: Empik, Świat Książki oraz Bonito. Badanie przeprowadzono w okresie: 10.08.2025–11.02.2026 r. Dane wprowadzano do żywego dokumentu programu Excel w chmurze Microsoft w ramach licencji Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego. Dane skorygowano i wyeksportowano do pliku w formacie XLSX 12.06.2026 r. W badaniu wzięto pod uwagę wyłącznie utwory polskich autorów wydane w Polsce w latach 2020–2025 — zarówno pierwsze wydania, jak i wznowienia — które przynajmniej w jednym z badanych źródeł otrzymały kategorię związaną z gatunkowymi odmianami literatury grozy. Badanie nie obejmowało self publishingu. Badanie obejmowało wydania papierowe oraz e-booki, a w przypadku braku kategoryzacji wydania papierowego lub e-booka u dystrybutorów — porównawczo audiobooki.
Badanie było ograniczone czasowo, więc przyjęto granicę 300 utworów jako miarodajną dla grupy polskiego horroru literackiego w latach 2020–2025. Pliki zawierają: (1) „result_of_the_research_in_Polish” — wyniki badania w formie arkusza kalkulacyjnego Excela w formacie XLSX. (2) „methodology_in_Polish” — opis badania wraz z metodologią i objaśnieniem kolumn z pliku (1), zapisany w formacie PDF. (3) „readme” — plik zawierający metadane. | pl_PL |
| dc.description.abstract | The data was collected as part of the project “Horror in Many Forms — Literary Horror and Its Varieties on the Contemporary Polish Publishing Market” (National Science Centre). It contains the results of the second part of the study, which involved analysing the genre categories assigned to literary works by publishers, the National Library in Poland, the LubimyCzytać readers’ portal, the Legimi subscription platform, as well as the distribution networks: Empik, Świat Książki and Bonito. The study was conducted between 10 August 2025 and 11 February 2026. Data was entered into a 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 on 12 June 2026. The study considered only works by Polish authors published in Poland between 2020 and 2025 — both first editions and reprints — which were assigned a category related to subgenres of horror literature in at least one of the sources examined. The study did not include self-published works. The study covered print editions and e-books, and in the absence of categorisation of a print edition or e-book by distributors — audiobooks for comparison. The study was time-limited, so a threshold of 300 works was adopted as representative of the Polish literary horror genre for the years 2020–2025. The files contain: (1) ‘result_of_the_research_in_Polish’ — the results of the study in the form of an Excel spreadsheet in XLSX format. (2) ‘methodology_in_Polish’ — a description of the study, including the methodology and an explanation of the columns from file (1), saved in PDF format. (3) “readme” — a file containing metadata. | pl_PL |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This research was funded by the National Science Centre, Poland, project no. 2025/09/X/HS2/00397, "Groza w wielu wydaniach — horror literacki i jego odmiany na współczesnym polskim rynku wydawniczym" ("Horror in many editions — literary horror and its genres on the contemporary Polish publishing market"). | pl_PL |
| dc.language.iso | pl | pl_PL |
| dc.rights | Uznanie autorstwa 4.0 Międzynarodowe | * |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | * |
| dc.subject | horror | pl_PL |
| dc.subject | literary horror | pl_PL |
| dc.subject | horror genres | pl_PL |
| dc.subject | Polish publishing market | pl_PL |
| dc.subject | literary genres | pl_PL |
| dc.subject | horror fiction | pl_PL |
| dc.subject | gatunki literackie | pl_PL |
| dc.subject | literatura grozy | pl_PL |
| dc.subject | polski rynek wydawniczy | pl_PL |
| dc.subject | book market in Poland | pl_PL |
| dc.subject | rynek książki w Polsce | pl_PL |
| dc.title | Horror literacki w Polsce — przegląd kategorii gatunkowych | pl_PL |
| dc.title.alternative | Literary Horror in Poland — Review of Genre Categories | pl_PL |
| dc.type | Dataset | pl_PL |
| dc.rights.holder | Anna Zatora | pl_PL |
| dc.contributor.authorAffiliation | Uniwersytet Łódzki, Wydział Filologiczny, Instytut Kultury Współczesnej, Katedra Teorii Literatury | pl_PL |
| dc.contributor.authorEmail | anna.zatora@lib.uni.lodz.pl | pl_PL |
| dc.discipline | literaturoznawstwo | pl_PL |
| dc.discipline | nauki o komunikacji społecznej i mediach | pl_PL |