Recs if you like Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection...

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

Recommendations are always welcome!

All things take place across space and time. Bodies as a geography Emotional geographies Cultural geography I fucking love geography

Mixing in classics, modern gems, and contemporary philosophy that really stand out. They're all top-notch in their own way, full of smart ideas that'll get you thinking.

gender studies theoretical works for those who wish to delve into this field!! (BEWARE! it acts as umbrella term for many other fields, therefore it's immensely extensive😭)

A list of psychoanalytic theory books, from Freud to Kristeva, Butler to Leader.

The list specifically focuses on psychoanalysis in relation to interpreting literature, the arts, and culture, not actual psychology.

I don't endorse (nor am I an expert in) all the views presented, but it's an interesting niche of theory which has a great influence on culture.

Thought-evokers

Books cited in Hayley Campbell’s “All the Living and the Dead.” Incomplete as of 6/12/26.