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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

Behind the scenes 📺

Non-Fiction about film and tv productions.

Suggestions welcome

I'll Be There for You: The One about Friends

So Fetch: The Making of Mean Girls (and Why We Are Still So Obsessed with It)

No Crying in Baseball: The Inside Story of A League of Their Own: Big Stars, Dugout Drama, and a Home Run for Hollywood

Directed by James Burrows: Five Decades of Stories from the Legendary Director of Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, Friends, Will & Grace, and More

I'll Be There for You: The One about Friends

So Fetch: The Making of Mean Girls (and Why We Are Still So Obsessed with It)

Goodreads "Horror For Beginners"

by MindlessMoose

Created from the list on Goodreads by Cybil and Sadie Hartmann (September 29, 2025)

Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

Midnight Rooms

Strange Beasts

The Butcher of the Forest

Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

Midnight Rooms

behind the horror

by endless_tbr_list

Nonfiction books about horror as a genre in movies, television, and literature.

Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction

101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered

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

Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature

Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction

101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered

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

Beginner Horror

by phantomtomes

A few of my favorite titles as a horror newbie myself!

The Hacienda

Goddess of Filth

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

Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil

The Hacienda

Goddess of Filth

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