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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

pop culture non-fiction

... or pop culture leaning.

House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films

Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live

I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution

You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation

House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films

Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live

History of Entertainment

Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past

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

The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France

Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah

Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past

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

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

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

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