Recs if you like Burn the Negative...

Horror books were cameras and journals may be all that remain

for this list, i am specifically looking into creating an extensive list of novels whose narratives center in some way film as an art or an industry. these are fictional explorations of what it means to make, love, fear, consume, be consumed by cinema.

I can't be the only one who want to remember all the books without jumping around in a video, right?

Books about haunted or cursed films, books, websites, etc

analogue horror, vhs, cult films, occult objects, static, exploitation, found footage, snuff

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

My best friend's cousin's neighbor's classmate has seen it -- it's real, I swear!

This list is for horror fiction lovers who are also movie lovers. If you like to spend your spooky season binge-watching classic horror movies, bloody slashers with high body counts, and films where the hunter becomes the hunted… these books are for you.

Books mentioned in ToastyGoobus/Gab Smolders book talk videos in 2026