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Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
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4.05 avg rating — 4,482 ratings
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Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
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4.26 avg rating — 12,197 ratings
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Behind the Horror: True Stories That Inspired Horror Movies
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3.83 avg rating — 2,156 ratings
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Monsters in the Movies: 100 Years of Cinematic Nightmares
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4.19 avg rating — 945 ratings
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Lovecraft
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3.83 avg rating — 1,132 ratings
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The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror
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4.11 avg rating — 1,515 ratings
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The Encyclopedia of Horror Movies: The Complete Film Reference
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4.52 avg rating — 165 ratings
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Bare Bones: Conversations on Terror with Stephen King
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4.16 avg rating — 3,571 ratings
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Horror - A Connoisseur's Guide To Literature And Film
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4.14 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Horror Comics: The Illustrated History (Taylor History of Comics #1)
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3.62 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror
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3.91 avg rating — 1,015 ratings
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Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood
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4.03 avg rating — 689 ratings
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The Horror Show Guide: The Ultimate Frightfest of Movies
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3.49 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Lost in the Shadows: The Story of the Lost Boys
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4.50 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Creepshows : The Illustrated Stephen King Movie Guide
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4.10 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th
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4.50 avg rating — 956 ratings
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Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread
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3.91 avg rating — 353 ratings
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My Favorite Horror Movie: 48 Essays by Horror Creators on the Film That Shaped Them
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3.43 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Undead Uprising: Haiti, Horror and The Zombie Complex
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4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings
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A Biography of Dracula: The Life Story of Bram Stoker
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3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Horror: An Illustrated History of Vampires, Zombies, Monsters & More
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4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings
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8 Days in the Woods: The Making of The Blair Witch Project
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3.96 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen
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4.22 avg rating — 550 ratings
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When There's No More Room in Hell: The Sociology Of The Living Dead
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4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Plant Horror: Approaches to the Monstrous Vegetal in Fiction and Film
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3.89 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Ghastly Terror!: The Horrible Story of the Horror Comics
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3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Evil Dead Companion
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4.19 avg rating — 481 ratings
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V Is for Vampire: The A-Z Guide to Everything Undead
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3.59 avg rating — 79 ratings
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The Making of Horror Movies: Key Figures who Established the Genre
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3.91 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Skywald!: The Complete Illustrated History of the Horror-Mood
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4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Psychos: Eighty Years of Mad Movies, Maniacs, and Murderous Deeds
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3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Hellraiser Chronicles
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4.20 avg rating — 193 ratings
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Horror Literature through History: An Encyclopedia of the Stories that Speak to Our Deepest Fears [2 volumes]
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4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
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A Haunt of Fears: The Strange History of the British Horror Comics Campaign (Studies in Popular Culture Series)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Fangoria's Best Horror Films
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3.68 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Sorcerers
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen Since the 1960s
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4.16 avg rating — 642 ratings
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The Palgrave Handbook to Horror Literature
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4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Vampira: Dark Goddess of Horror
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3.64 avg rating — 236 ratings
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Monsters, Movies & Mayhem
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4.07 avg rating — 41 ratings
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John Fawcett's Ginger Snaps
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4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Horror Fiction in the 20th Century: Exploring Literature's Most Chilling Genre
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4.03 avg rating — 31 ratings
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A Pictorial History of Horror Movies
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4.28 avg rating — 202 ratings
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Inside The Wicker Man: How Not to Make a Cult Classic
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4.11 avg rating — 237 ratings
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Chain Saw Confidential: How We Made the World's Most Notorious Horror Movie
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4.12 avg rating — 1,091 ratings
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Horror Fiction in the Global South: Cultures, Narratives and Representations
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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101 Horror Movies You Must See Before You Die
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3.92 avg rating — 360 ratings
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Wes Craven's Last House on the Left: The Making of a Cult Classic
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4.13 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Theology, Horror and Fiction: A Reading of the Gothic Nineteenth Century
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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They Live: A Novel Approach to Cinema
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3.77 avg rating — 557 ratings
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Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy--The Making of Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street
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4.24 avg rating — 207 ratings
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Transmedia Creatures: Frankenstein’s Afterlives
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How it Changed America
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3.86 avg rating — 3,716 ratings
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They Live
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3.68 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Nightbreed: The Making of the Film
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4.10 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre
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4.15 avg rating — 124 ratings
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The Mad World of William M. Gaines
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4.30 avg rating — 67 ratings
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The Creature Features Movie Guide
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4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Night of the Living Dead: Behind the Scenes of the Most Terrifying Zombie Movie Ever
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3.93 avg rating — 338 ratings
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Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present
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4.38 avg rating — 279 ratings
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The Mad Life And Fantastic Art Of Al Feldstein: The Madman Behind EC Comics And Mad Magazine
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Making of George A. Romero's Day of the Dead
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4.38 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Dark Forces at Work: Essays on Social Dynamics and Cinematic Horrors
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The Studio
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4.58 avg rating — 53 ratings
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American Horror Film: The Genre at the Turn of the Millennium
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3.61 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Making of Creepshow 2
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3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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What's Eating You?: Food and Horror on Screen
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4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Nightmare Movies: A Critical Guide to Contemporary Horror Films
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4.16 avg rating — 642 ratings
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Dracula: A British Film Guide
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3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Gender and Contemporary Horror in Television
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3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Dark Valley Destiny: The Life of Robert E. Howard
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3.25 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film
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3.99 avg rating — 3,237 ratings
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The Evil Dead
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3.67 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange
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3.92 avg rating — 242 ratings
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Cheap Thrills: The Amazing! Thrilling! Astonishing! History of Pulp Fiction
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3.83 avg rating — 53 ratings
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The Illustrated Vampire Movie Guide (Illustrated Movie Guide Series)
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3.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Frankenstein
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4.31 avg rating — 16 ratings
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House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films
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4.43 avg rating — 1,459 ratings
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Astounding, Mysterious, Weird and True: The Pulp Art of Comic Book Artists: 1
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3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Bitches, Bimbos & Virgins: Women in the Horror Film
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3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Classic Film Series: Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
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3.50 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film (Texas Film Studies Series)
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4.09 avg rating — 352 ratings
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The Blood 'n' Thunder Guide to Collecting Pulps
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4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Horror Film Stars
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3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Exorcist: Studies in the Horror Film
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3.95 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Readers' Advisory Guide to Horror
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4.32 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Pulp Art: Original Cover Paintings for the Great American Pulp Magazines
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4.14 avg rating — 139 ratings
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Stephen King's Danse Macabre
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3.67 avg rating — 31,739 ratings
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Studies In The Horror Film: Brian De Palma's Carrie
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4.13 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Horror Literature from Gothic to Post-Modern: Critical Essays
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Haunted Horror Pre-Code Cover Coloring Book Volume 1
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4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Splatter Movies: Breaking the Last Taboo of the Screen
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4.05 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Tobe Hooper's Salem's Lot: Studies in the Horror Film
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3.93 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Monster Anthropology: Ethnographic Explorations of Transforming Social Worlds Through Monsters
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4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Hauntings and Horrors: The Ultimate Guide to Spooky America
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3.78 avg rating — 23 ratings
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An Illustrated History of the Horror Film
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3.89 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Night of the Living Dead: Studies in the Horror Film
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4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear
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3.66 avg rating — 1,092 ratings
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The Things That Keep Us Up at Night: Reel Bio Horror
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4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Horror in the Cinema
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4.04 avg rating — 24 ratings
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