Books about the horror genre from an academic lens because we need more of those!!
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Partially Devoured: How Night of the Living Dead Saved My Life and Changed the World
Daniel Kraus
Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers
Jude Ellison S. Doyle
Horror: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Darryl Jones
Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us
Anna Bogutskaya
The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar
Robin R. Means Coleman
Corpses, Fools and Monsters
Willow Catelyn Maclay
I Spit On Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies
Heidi Honeycutt
Analog Nightmares: The Shot On Video Horror Films of 1982-1995
Richard Mogg
The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis
Barbara Creed
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
Joe Vallese
Queer Horror Film and Television: Sexuality and Masculinity at the Margins (Library of Gender and Popular Culture)
Darren Elliott-Smith
House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films
Kier-la Janisse
Un-American Psycho: Brian De Palma and the Political Invisible
Chris Dumas
Torture Porn: Popular Horror after Saw
Steve Jones
Torture Porn in the Wake of 9/11: Horror, Exploitation, and the Cinema of Sensation (War Culture)
Aaron Michael Kerner
Monsters in the Movies: 100 Years of Cinematic Nightmares
John Landis
Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
Grady Hendrix
Monsters in the closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film (Inside Popular Film)
Harry M. Benshoff
Gothic dreams and nightmares
Carol Davison
The Horror Film: An Introduction (New Approaches to Film Genre)
Rick Worland
Folk horror on film: Return of the British repressed
Kevin J. Donnelly
Queer for Fear: Horror Film and the Queer Spectator (Horror Studies)
Heather O. Petrocelli
A book of monsters: Promethean horror in modern literature and culture
David Ashford
The Philosophy of Horror
Noël Carroll
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