title: Grotesque (disambiguation)
text: # Grotesque (disambiguation)
  
  Grotesque was originally a style of ornament in art, and today also means strange, fantastic, ugly, or bizarre.
  
  Grotesque may also refer to:
  
  ## Literature, film and television
  
  * Grotesque (1988 film), a 1988 horror film starring Linda Blair
  * Grotesque (2009 film), a 2009 gore/horror film starring Nagasawa Tsugumi and Kawatsure Hiroaki
  * The Grotesque (novel), a 1989 novel by Patrick McGrath
     * The Grotesque (film), a 1995 British film adaptation of McGrath's novel, starring Alan Bates, Lena Headey, Theresa Russell and Sting
  * "Grotesque" (The X-Files), a 1996 episode of the American TV series The X-Files
  * Grotesque (novel), a 2007 Japanese novel by Natsuo Kirino
  * Grotesque (Fear the Walking Dead), an episode of the television series Fear the Walking Dead
  
  ## Other
  
  * Grotesque body, a literary trope conceptualized by Russian literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin in his study of François Rabelais' work
  * Grotesque dance, category of theatrical dance
  * "Grotesque", a song by Saori@destiny from the album World Wild 2010
  * Grotesque (band), a Swedish death metal band
  * Grotesque (architecture) a form of building ornamentation often confused with gargoyles
  * Grotesque (album), a 1980 album by The Fall
  * Grotesque (chess), a chess problem
  * Grotesque (typeface classification), a style of sans-serif typefaces originating in the late 19th century
     * Grotesque (Stephenson Blake typefaces)
  