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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!

The Exorcist Effect: Horror, Religion, and Demonic Belief

Where Nightmares Come From

Hauntology: Ghosts of Futures Past

Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula

The Exorcist Effect: Horror, Religion, and Demonic Belief

Where Nightmares Come From

On and About Horror

Books that discuss the horror genre in literature and cinema

Horror: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Horror: A Literary History

Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre

Horror: The 100 Best Books

Horror: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Horror: A Literary History

Horror Nonfiction

by violet.booklover

Books about horror media! Nonfiction, including creative nonfiction like poetry.

The Final Girl How Horror Movie’s Made Me A Better Feminist

Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature

Behind the Horror: True Stories That Inspired Horror Movies

Absolute Pleasure: Queer Perspectives on Rocky Horror

The Final Girl How Horror Movie’s Made Me A Better Feminist

Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature

On Cinema and Movies

Your Favorite Scary Movie: How the Scream Films Rewrote the Rules of Horror

Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

From Hollywood with Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy

Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops

Your Favorite Scary Movie: How the Scream Films Rewrote the Rules of Horror

Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

Every Frame a Painting

Books about movies and film

Sculpting in Time

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

The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies

Hitchcock/Truffaut

Sculpting in Time

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