Recs if you like Uncanny Valley Girls: Essays on Horror, Survival, and Love...
Blending Memoirs with Research, Poetry, Culture
Books that are part memoir part another genre: in a way that blends multiple mediums and/or themes in unique and engaging ways. Magical, explosive and memorable narratives expressed with creativity and depth. Books that inspire me to write more.
Horror 🫱🏽🫲🏽 Non-Fiction
Non-fiction about horror, those is the horror industry, horror-adjacent subjects, and down-right terrifying books.
Disabled, Deaf, Neurodivergent, Ill Nonfiction
A huge list of nonfiction books encompassing Disabled, Deaf, Neurodivergent, Ill bodyminds.
Similar lists of mine to check out: Disabled, Deaf, Neurodivergent, Ill Poetry AND Disability Sexuality
Nonfiction: The Horror Genre
Nonfiction books about the mechanics, psychology, and other aspects of the horror genre.
Recommendations are always welcome!
On and About Horror
Books that discuss the horror genre in literature and cinema
Brain Food (from kale to popcorn)
Survivorhood 🩵⚠️ Read with Care
TW: SA
Nonfiction books with personal narratives about survivorhood.
I believe you. You are not alone.
Horror Nonfiction
Books about horror media! Nonfiction, including creative nonfiction like poetry.
essay collections on horror
LGBTQ+ Nonfiction Published in 2025-2026
A list of nonfiction with LGBTQ+ authors and/or themes, published in 2025-2026, once again shamelessly yoinked from that other reading app that shan't be named.
behind the horror
Nonfiction books about horror as a genre in movies, television, and literature.
queer memoir
it’s in the name, babe
Is there something on my face?
List of books with book covers containing blurry faces, obscured faces, or distorted faces
blurbed by Carmen Maria Machado
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