Books about horror media! Nonfiction, including creative nonfiction like poetry.
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last updated August, 2026
Queer Tastes: Unconventional Representation in Horror Films
Cat Voleur
Queer Horror Film and Television: Sexuality and Masculinity at the Margins (Library of Gender and Popular Culture)
Darren Elliott-Smith
Queer Horror: A Film Guide
Sean Abley
She-wolf: A cultural history of female werewolves
Hannah Priest
Queer for Fear: Horror Film and the Queer Spectator (Horror Studies)
Heather O. Petrocelli
Queer Horror: Fun and Freaky Perspectives on Macabre Media
Gina Brandolino
Demo Reels and Arthouse Madness: A Collection of Dark Verse
Vince A. Liaguno
I Am Not Your Final Girl
Claire C. Holland
An Anthology of Monsters: How Story Saves Us from Our Anxiety (CLC Kreisel Lecture Series)
Cherie Dimaline
Extra Salty: Jennifer's Body (11) (Pop Classics)
Frederick Blichert
Queer Slashers (Icons of Horror)
Peter Marra
The Inspiring World of Horror: The Movies That Influenced Generations
Caillou Pettis
Horror Unmasked: A History of Terror from Nosferatu to Nope
Brad Weismann
The Book of Horror: The Anatomy of Fear in Film
Matt Glasby
The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film (Texas Film Studies Series)
Barry Keith Grant
Uncanny: The Origins of Fear
Junji Ito
Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Bloomsbury Sigma)
Kathryn Harkup
Hideous Progeny: Disability, Eugenics, and Classic Horror Cinema (Film and Culture Series)
Angela M. Smith
Fashioning Horror: Dressing to Kill on Screen and in Literature
Julia Petrov
Partially Devoured: How Night of the Living Dead Saved My Life and Changed the World
Daniel Kraus
Queer Screams: A History of LGBTQ+ Survival Through the Lens of American Horror Cinema
Abigail Waldron
Beyond the Lesbian Vampire: Reclaiming the Violent Lesbian in Contemporary Queer Horror (Horror Studies)
Sam Tabet
Midnight Mass: The Art of Horror
Abbie Bernstein
Japanese Horror Films and their American Remakes: Translating Fear, Adapting Culture (Routledge Advances in Film Studies)
Valerie Wee
My Life In Horror Volume II
Kit Power
My Life in Horror: Volume 1
Chain Saw Confidential
Gunnar Hansen
House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films
Kier-la Janisse
The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
Mallory O'Meara
Nightmare Fuel: The Science of Horror Films
Nina Nesseth
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