Recs if you like The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick...

Non-fiction about horror, those is the horror industry, horror-adjacent subjects, and down-right terrifying books.

Different kinds of non-fiction books about gender, feminism, and related topics. People like black women or neurodivergent women are twice or more marginalised, and often it's not clear whether treatment was due to (for example) skin colour or perceived gender, so I'll add some books about other kinds of marginalisation as well. I haven't read all books (yet); if one is problematic, please tell me so in a comment!

Nonfiction books about the mechanics, psychology, and other aspects of the horror genre.

Recommendations are always welcome!

... or pop culture leaning.

Nonfiction on critical theory + political history of art & craft.

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(In progress)

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

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

...but it IS easy to find a great book with a green cover!

True stories of horror, authors who take a horror lense to their memoirs or historical, film, literary analysis of horror. There’s even a scientific analysis of cannibalism, including humans interest in the taboo subject.

Katie McGrath recommendations

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