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Nonfiction: The Horror Genre

by SkywardStrange

Nonfiction books about the mechanics, psychology, and other aspects of the horror genre.

Recommendations are always welcome!

Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction

Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre

Uncanny Valley Girls: Essays on Horror, Survival, and Love

Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature

Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction

Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre

On and About Horror

Books that discuss the horror genre in literature and cinema

Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction

The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror

The Literature Of Terror: The Gothic Tradition, Volume 1

On Writing Horror: A Handbook by the Horror Writers Association

Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction

The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror

Brain Food (from kale to popcorn)

by SheReadsAtMidnight

You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip

Why Are People Into That?: A Cultural Investigation of Kink

Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse

That's How They Get You: An Unruly Anthology of Black American Humor

You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip

Why Are People Into That?: A Cultural Investigation of Kink

pre-2000s queer horror

older horror with lgbtq+ characters and/or authors and books that question gender and sexuality

The Haunting of Hill House

Books of Blood: Volumes One to Three (Books of Blood, #1-3)

Skin

Scar City

The Haunting of Hill House

Books of Blood: Volumes One to Three (Books of Blood, #1-3)

Horror Academia

by slimshaedy92

Books about the horror genre from an academic lens because we need more of those!!

The Philosophy of Horror

A book of monsters: Promethean horror in modern literature and culture

Queer for Fear: Horror Film and the Queer Spectator (Horror Studies)

Folk horror on film: Return of the British repressed

The Philosophy of Horror

A book of monsters: Promethean horror in modern literature and culture

On Cinema and Movies

Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar

Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre

The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film (Texas Film Studies Series)

Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar

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