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pop culture non-fiction

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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.

Recommendations are always welcome!

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

Satanic Panic

by kathytrithardt

Books that brought on Satanic Panic, or resulted from it.

We Believe the Children: A Moral Panic in the 1980s

Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries

In Pursuit of Satan: The Police and the Occult

Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s

We Believe the Children: A Moral Panic in the 1980s

Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries

On Cinema and Movies

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

Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

From Hollywood with Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy

Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops

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

Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

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

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

The Sixties

by terriblangel

A mix of fiction and nonfiction set in/about the 1960s. Includes books from the decade too.

The Girls

Arcadia

Testimony

Where Have All the Flowers Gone?: The Diary of Molly MacKenzie Flaherty, Boston, Massachusetts, 1968 (Dear America)

The Girls

Arcadia

The Seventies

by terriblangel

A mix of fiction and nonfiction set in/about the 1970s. Books from the decade too.

Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

Coffin Moon

Interview with the Vampire

Burnt Offerings

Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

Coffin Moon

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