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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.

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

Non-Fiction about all things Gothic

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

Queens of the Wild: Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe: An Investigation

Horror: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction

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

Queens of the Wild: Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe: An Investigation

The Macabre

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

Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine

The Art of the Occult: A Visual Sourcebook for the Modern Mystic

The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror

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

Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine

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