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pop culture non-fiction

... or pop culture leaning.

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Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction

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

Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me

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

Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction

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

Nonfiction: The Horror Genre

by SkywardStrange

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

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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

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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

Chicken Noodle Soup for the Macabre Soul

by prettyinpapercuts

Nonfiction about macabre and taboo subjects

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The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Cursed Objects: Strange but True Stories of the World's Most Infamous Items

I'll Be Gone in the Dark

The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

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no? well, now you do Books about [niche subject] or [not so niche subject] that spam from the mysterious and the macabre to the weird and unsettling to just interesting and fun

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The Madman's Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History

The Encyclopedia of the Weird and Wonderful: Curious and Incredible Facts that Will Blow Your Mind

Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses

Three Stones Make a Wall: The Story of Archaeology

The Madman's Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History

The Encyclopedia of the Weird and Wonderful: Curious and Incredible Facts that Will Blow Your Mind

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