Da Boca Escancarada ao Riso Contido: compreendendo algumas imagens grotescas do horror

This article presents a discussion about horror as an aesthetic category present in several discursive genres. It seeks to elucidate the humor present in the horror discourse, the nuances and specificities of the carnival laughter present in its utterance. To this end, it brings a discussion based on Roas’ (2014) theory of fear in the fantastic and Caroll’s (1999) theory about horror images in dialogue with Bakhtin's (2010a, 2010b) theory of laughter, comics and carnival. From this dialogue emerges the understanding of the grotesque body of the monster and its role in the construction of reduced laughter present in the discourse of horror. The article falls within the area of ​​Applied Linguistics and is theoretically and methodologically guided by a qualitative investigation.