Nonfiction books about horror as a genre in movies, television, and literature.
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Queer for Fear: Horror Film and the Queer Spectator (Horror Studies)
Heather O. Petrocelli
I Spit On Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies
Heidi Honeycutt
Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Bloomsbury Sigma)
Kathryn Harkup
Uncanny Valley Girls: Essays on Horror, Survival, and Love
Zefyr Lisowski
True Indie: Life and Death in Filmmaking
Don Coscarelli
The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
Mallory O'Meara
Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King
Caroline Bicks
Danse Macabre
Stephen King
How to Build a Haunted House: The History of a Cultural Obsession
Caitlin Blackwell Baines
Horror: A Literary History
Xavier Aldana Reyes
Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre
Alison Peirse
Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror
Lee Murray
Your Favorite Scary Movie: How the Scream Films Rewrote the Rules of Horror
Ashley Cullins
Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present
Robin R. Means Coleman
Untold Horror
Dave Alexander
Gothic: An Illustrated History
Roger Luckhurst
Feral and Hysterical: Mother Horror’s Ultimate Reading Guide to Dark and Disturbing Fiction by Women
Sadie Hartmann
Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror
W. Scott Poole
Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us
Anna Bogutskaya
Nightmare Fuel: The Science of Horror Films
Nina Nesseth
Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen Since the 1960s
Kim Newman
Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood
William J. Mann
Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread
Leila Taylor
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
Joe Vallese
American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond
Jeremy Dauber
Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch
Emily C. Hughes
Scream with Me: Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism (1968-1980)
Eleanor Johnson
Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature
Becky Siegel Spratford
The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar
101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered
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