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Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us
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3.87 avg rating — 1,386 ratings
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Nightmare Fuel: The Science of Horror Films
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3.82 avg rating — 1,423 ratings
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Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread
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3.86 avg rating — 386 ratings
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American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond
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3.63 avg rating — 1,191 ratings
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101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered
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4.28 avg rating — 2,454 ratings
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Feral and Hysterical: Mother Horror’s Ultimate Reading Guide to Dark and Disturbing Fiction by Women
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4.49 avg rating — 553 ratings
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Scream With Me: Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism, 1968-1980
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4.10 avg rating — 4,813 ratings
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Men, Women and Chainsaws
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3.99 avg rating — 3,306 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 — 12,380 ratings
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It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
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4.11 avg rating — 6,607 ratings
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Danse Macabre
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3.67 avg rating — 32,128 ratings
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Why I Love Horror
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4.32 avg rating — 1,637 ratings
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Zombie CSU: The Forensics of the Living Dead
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3.87 avg rating — 898 ratings
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Scared Sacred: Idolatry, Religion and Worship in the Horror Film
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4.73 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The 1990s Teen Horror Cycle: Final Girls and a New Hollywood Formula
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3.81 avg rating — 241 ratings
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Your Favorite Scary Movie: How the Scream Films Rewrote the Rules of Horror
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4.33 avg rating — 4,896 ratings
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Choke Gasp! the Best of 75 Years of EC Comics
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4.43 avg rating — 224 ratings
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The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror
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4.11 avg rating — 1,527 ratings
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Death by Umbrella! The 100 Weirdest Horror Movie Weapons
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3.79 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Screaming for Pleasure: How Horror Makes You Happy and Healthy
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4.06 avg rating — 166 ratings
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Behind the Horror: True Stories That Inspired Horror Movies
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3.82 avg rating — 2,192 ratings
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The Essential Stephen King: A Ranking of the Greatest Novels, Short Stories, Movies, and Other Creations of the World's Most Popular Writer
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3.66 avg rating — 121 ratings
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101 Horror Movies You Must See Before You Die
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3.93 avg rating — 363 ratings
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Writing Horror
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3.83 avg rating — 53 ratings
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The Modern Horror Film
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3.89 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch
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4.28 avg rating — 1,030 ratings
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Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror
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4.06 avg rating — 1,916 ratings
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Reel Terror: The Scary, Bloody, Gory, Hundred-Year History of Classic Horror Films
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3.74 avg rating — 224 ratings
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The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead
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3.93 avg rating — 3,350 ratings
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The Horror Show Guide: The Ultimate Frightfest of Movies
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King
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4.01 avg rating — 2,081 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 — 2,663 ratings
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Partially Devoured: How Night of the Living Dead Saved My Life and Changed the World
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4.46 avg rating — 183 ratings
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Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film, 1978 to 1986
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3.96 avg rating — 265 ratings
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Be Scared of Everything: Horror Essays
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 278 ratings
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The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: The Ultimate Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed
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4.10 avg rating — 1,567 ratings
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Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror
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3.92 avg rating — 1,041 ratings
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Bleeding Skull!: A 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey
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4.35 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Theology of Horror: The Hidden Depths of Popular Films
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4.16 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Beyond the Darkness: Cult, Horror, and Extreme Cinema
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3.75 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Blue Light of the Screen: On Horror, Ghosts, and God
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3.93 avg rating — 188 ratings
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The 100 Greatest Photographs of the Paranormal: Taken from the Fortean Picture Library
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3.27 avg rating — 15 ratings
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SHOCK! HORROR!
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4.42 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
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4.05 avg rating — 4,520 ratings
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The Video Nasties Moment: Examining The Films Behind The Scare
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2.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Book of the Dead: The Complete History of Zombie Cinema
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4.25 avg rating — 519 ratings
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The Mammoth Book of Slasher Movies (Mammoth Books 409)
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3.58 avg rating — 153 ratings
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The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar
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4.04 avg rating — 1,684 ratings
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Terror Television: American Series, 1970-1999
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4.04 avg rating — 24 ratings
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You Won't Believe Your Eyes: A Front Row Look at the Sci-Fi/Horror Films of the 1950s
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4.10 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Whacked!: Skewed Views of Horror Movies That Simply Refuse To Die
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3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Satanic Screen: An Illustrated History of the Devil in Cinema
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4.13 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Connoisseur's Guide to Contemporary Horror Film: The Best of the Beasts and Blood
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4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Lucio Fulci: Beyond the Gates
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3.21 avg rating — 28 ratings
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More Gore Score: Brave New Horrors
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4.22 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Deep Red
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4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Horror Movie Freak
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3.56 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Trashfiend: Disposable Horror Fare of the 1960s and 1970s
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3.80 avg rating — 25 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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Regional Horror Films, 1958-1990: A State-By-State Guide with Interviews
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3.92 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Forgotten Horrors to the Nth Degree: Dispatches from a Collapsing Genre
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3.15 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento
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4.06 avg rating — 198 ratings
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The Gorehound's Guide to Splatter Films of the 1960s and 1970s
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Cannibal Holocaust and the Savage Cinema of Ruggero Deodato
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3.93 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Comedy-Horror Films: A Chronological History, 1914-2008
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3.59 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents
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4.68 avg rating — 347 ratings
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The Book of Lists: Horror
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3.78 avg rating — 372 ratings
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Blood & Black Lace
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4.23 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth
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3.81 avg rating — 198 ratings
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How to Survive a Horror Movie
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3.86 avg rating — 3,388 ratings
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The Filmmaker's Book of the Dead: How to Make Your Own Heart-Racing Horror Movie
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3.70 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide
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3.95 avg rating — 440 ratings
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The Pleasure and Pain of Cult Horror Films: An Historical Survey
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3.43 avg rating — 14 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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Allied Artists Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films
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3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Horror Zone: The Cultural Experience of Contemporary Horror Cinema
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3.77 avg rating — 22 ratings
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