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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

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

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Nonfiction: The Horror Genre

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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

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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

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Horror: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Horror: A Literary History

Non-Fiction about all things Gothic

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Gothic: An Illustrated History

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It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present

Gothic: An Illustrated History

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The Macabre

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Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science

The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics

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