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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

Satanic Panic

by kathytrithardt

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

Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s

Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend

The Sussex Devils: A True Story of the 1980s Satanic Panic

Michelle Remembers

Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s

Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend

On Cinema and Movies

Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar

Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre

The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film (Texas Film Studies Series)

Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar

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

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.

A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown

The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

Mary Jane

Here's to My Sweet Satan: How the Occult Haunted Music, Movies and Pop Culture, 1966-1980

A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown

The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

History of Entertainment

Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past

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

The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France

Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah

Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past

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

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