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Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
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4.26 avg rating — 12,057 ratings
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Horror Films of the 1970s
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4.28 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror
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3.86 avg rating — 2,645 ratings
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Behind the Horror: True Stories That Inspired Horror Movies
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3.83 avg rating — 2,125 ratings
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Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
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4.05 avg rating — 4,440 ratings
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Supernatural Horror in Literature
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,370 ratings
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Tentacles Longer Than Night (Horror of Philosophy, #3)
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3.95 avg rating — 367 ratings
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The Philosophy of Horror
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3.75 avg rating — 711 ratings
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Infinite Resignation
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3.99 avg rating — 433 ratings
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The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror
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4.11 avg rating — 1,508 ratings
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Men, Women and Chainsaws
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,178 ratings
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Larry Cohen: The Radical Allegories of an Independent Filmmaker, rev. ed.
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3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Uncanny Bodies: The Coming of Sound Film and the Origins of the Horror Genre
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3.58 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Monsters and Mad Scientists: A Cultural History of the Horror Movie
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3.67 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Gothic Realities: The Impact of Horror Fiction on Modern Culture
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Dark Romance: Sexuality in the Horror Film
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3.86 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters
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4.15 avg rating — 335 ratings
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Television Fright Films of the 1970s
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4.21 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Horror Film and Psychoanalysis: Freud's Worst Nightmare
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4.05 avg rating — 39 ratings
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The Television Horrors of Dan Curtis: Dark Shadows, The Night Stalker and Other Productions, 1966-2006
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3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Contesting the Gothic: Fiction, Genre and Cultural Conflict, 1764–1832 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, Series Number 33)
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3.54 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Hollywood Cauldron: Thirteen Horror Films from the Genre's Golden Age
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4.71 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762–1800 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, Series Number 12)
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3.94 avg rating — 31 ratings
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The Complete H. P. Lovecraft Filmography
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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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American Gothic: New Interventions in a National Narrative
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3.64 avg rating — 22 ratings
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A Critical Guide to Horror Film Series
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2.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Modern Weird Tale: A Critique of Horror Fiction
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3.84 avg rating — 116 ratings
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When Animals Attack: The 70 Best Horror Movies with Killer Animals
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3.84 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Technologies of the Gothic in Literature and Culture: Technogothics
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Films of John Carpenter
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3.62 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Spectral Readings: Towards a Gothic Geography
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Turn to Gruesomeness in American Horror Films, 1931-1936
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3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Icons of Horror and the Supernatural: An Encyclopedia of Our Worst Nightmares (Ebook PDF)
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4.08 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Horror (The Overlook Film Encyclopedia Series)
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4.53 avg rating — 164 ratings
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The Men Who Made the Monsters (Twayne's Filmmakers Series)
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3.67 avg rating — 21 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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Hammer and Beyond: The British Horror Film
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3.88 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Handbook to Gothic Literature
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4.10 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Vampire Film: From Nosferatu to Bram Stoker's Dracula
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3.71 avg rating — 79 ratings
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The Literature Of Terror: The Gothic Tradition, Volume 1
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3.94 avg rating — 95 ratings
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The Poe Cinema: A Critical Filmography of Theatrical Releases Based on the Works of Edgar Allan Poe
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Gothic Body: Sexuality, Materialism, and Degeneration at the Fin de Siècle
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4.23 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Fearing the Dark: The Val Lewton Career
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4.33 avg rating — 27 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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Roger Corman: The Best of the Cheap Acts
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3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction
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3.61 avg rating — 428 ratings
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The Thrill of Fear: 250 Years of Scary Entertainment
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3.32 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Horror Films of the 1990s
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4.03 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Songs of Love and Death: The Classical American Horror Film of the 1930s
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff: The Expanded Story of a Haunting Collaboration
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4.52 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Horror Films of the 1980s
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4.40 avg rating — 124 ratings
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Nightwalkers: Gothic Horror Movies
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3.94 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Horror Zone: The Cultural Experience of Contemporary Horror Cinema
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3.76 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Fearmakers: The Screen's Directorial Masters of Suspense and Terror
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3.73 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Revolting Child in Horror Cinema: Youth Rebellion and Queer Spectatorship
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4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Golden Horrors: An Illustrated Critical Filmography of Terror Cinema, 1931-1939
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4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Dark Directions: Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the Modern Horror Film
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3.79 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Beasts In The Cellar
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4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Suburban Gothic in American Popular Culture
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4.12 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Universal Studios Monsters: A Legacy of Horror
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4.40 avg rating — 300 ratings
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More Gore Score: Brave New Horrors
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4.14 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Drums of Terror: Voodoo in the Cinema
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4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Mario Bava: All the Colors of the Dark
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4.73 avg rating — 78 ratings
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More Classics of the Horror Film
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4.60 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Beyond Terror: The Flims of Lucio Fulci
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4.55 avg rating — 135 ratings
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Classics of Horror Film
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4.37 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Lucio Fulci: Beyond the Gates
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3.21 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Splintered Visions: Lucio Fulci and His Films
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4.52 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Dark Visions: Conversations with the Masters of the Horror Film
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3.79 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Lucio Fulci: Poetry and cruelty in the movies
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English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema
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4.50 avg rating — 107 ratings
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La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film
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3.69 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Frankenstein: A Cultural History
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3.94 avg rating — 354 ratings
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European Nightmares: Horror Cinema in Europe Since 1945
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3.59 avg rating — 22 ratings
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J-Horror: The Definitive Guide to The Ring, The Grudge and Beyond
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3.78 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Horror Movie Freak
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3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Charm of Evil: The Life and Films of Terence Fisher
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3.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold: Horror Films and the American Movie Business, 1953-1968
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3.74 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing and Horror Cinema: A Filmography of Their 22 Collaborations
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4.82 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Death by Umbrella! The 100 Weirdest Horror Movie Weapons
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3.83 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Horror Film Directors, 1931-1990
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4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Fear Without Frontiers: Horror Cinema Across the Globe
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4.11 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Universal Horrors: The Studio's Classic Films, 1931-1946
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4.41 avg rating — 156 ratings
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Mario Bava: Destination Terror
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3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Cut! Horror Writers on Horror Film
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3.79 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Dario Argento
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3.86 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Fear: History of Horror in the Mass Media
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4.03 avg rating — 36 ratings
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More Things Than Are Dreamt Of: Masterpieces of Supernatural Horror
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3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Nightmare Movies: A Critical Guide to Contemporary Horror Films
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4.16 avg rating — 640 ratings
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The Zombies That Ate Pittsburgh: The Films of George A. Romero
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4.21 avg rating — 72 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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Dreadful Pleasures: An Anatomy of Modern Horror
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3.42 avg rating — 57 ratings
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The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural
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4.67 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Danse Macabre
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3.67 avg rating — 31,481 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 — 549 ratings
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Richard Matheson on Screen: A History of the Filmed Works
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4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Dark Thoughts: On Writing : Advice and Commentary from Fifty Masters of Fear and Suspense
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3.92 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Vampires, Mummies and Liberals: Bram Stoker and the Politics of Popular Fiction
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4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Terrors of Uncertainty: The Cultural Context of Horror Fiction
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3.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Classic Horror Writers
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3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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