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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

On and About Horror

Books that discuss the horror genre in literature and cinema

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

The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror

The Literature Of Terror: The Gothic Tradition, Volume 1

On Writing Horror: A Handbook by the Horror Writers Association

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

The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror

Chicken Noodle Soup for the Macabre Soul

by prettyinpapercuts

Nonfiction about macabre and taboo subjects

I’m Glad My Mom Died

Sociopath: A Memoir

Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident

The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride

I’m Glad My Mom Died

Sociopath: A Memoir

Horror Nonfiction

by violet.booklover

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

Dinner on Monster Island: Essays

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

Men, Women and Chainsaws

Scream with Me: Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism (1968-1980)

Dinner on Monster Island: Essays

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

did you know...

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

Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud

Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen

Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures & Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs

The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands

Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud

Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen

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