Dread

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Dread may refer to:

  • Extreme fear
  • Angst, a profound and deep-seated spiritual condition of insecurity and despair in the free human being in Existentialist thought
  • A short story in horror author Clive Barker's Books of Blood collection, or the comic-book or stage adaptation of same
  • Dreadlocks, a hairstyle
  • Dread, an ENnie-award winning horror role-playing game, published by The Impossible Dream, which utilizes a Jenga tower as its main game mechanic.
  • Dread: The First Book of Pandemonium, a different independently published modern-horror role-playing game
  • DREAD: Risk assessment model, a model for assessing computer security risks; acronym for Damage potential, Reproducibility, Exploitability, Affected users, and Discoverability
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