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Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
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4.05 avg rating — 4,475 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 — 12,171 ratings
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Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands
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3.69 avg rating — 4,285 ratings
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The Road to Middle-Earth: How J.R.R. Tolkien Created a New Mythology
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3.95 avg rating — 6,160 ratings
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Danse Macabre
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3.67 avg rating — 31,695 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 — 3,713 ratings
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Dreadful Pleasures: An Anatomy of Modern Horror
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3.43 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human
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3.85 avg rating — 8,584 ratings
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Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror
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3.91 avg rating — 1,014 ratings
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Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of '80s and '90s Teen Fiction
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3.76 avg rating — 4,173 ratings
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New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction
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3.57 avg rating — 264 ratings
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Tolkien On Fairy-stories
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4.32 avg rating — 4,936 ratings
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J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
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3.89 avg rating — 5,706 ratings
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Language Of The Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
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4.28 avg rating — 2,341 ratings
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Horror: The 100 Best Books
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4.18 avg rating — 374 ratings
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The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror
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4.11 avg rating — 1,512 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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Tales from the Crypt: The Official Archives
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4.30 avg rating — 119 ratings
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Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book
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4.07 avg rating — 1,680 ratings
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Supernatural Horror in Literature
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3.99 avg rating — 2,384 ratings
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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
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4.35 avg rating — 609 ratings
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Space Sucks!
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3.61 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Eagle Scout Picture: A WWII Spy Thriller of Courage, Deception, and the cost of Survival
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4.87 avg rating — 193 ratings
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Marvel Comics: The Untold Story
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4.05 avg rating — 7,552 ratings
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Writing Down the Dragon: and Other Essays on the Tolkien Method and the Craft of Fantasy
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4.44 avg rating — 36 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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The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World
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3.75 avg rating — 518 ratings
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The Law of Superheroes
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3.85 avg rating — 422 ratings
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Pistols and Petticoats: 175 Years of Lady Detectives in Fact and Fiction
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3.52 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Reel Terror: The Scary, Bloody, Gory, Hundred-Year History of Classic Horror Films
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3.73 avg rating — 220 ratings
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Beauty and the Beast: Visions and Revisions of an Old Tale
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3.89 avg rating — 57 ratings
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The World Beyond the Hill
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4.24 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Comic Book Rebels: Conversations with the Creators of the New Comics
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Owl, The Raven, and the Dove: The Religious Meaning of the Grimms' Magic Fairy Tales
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4.30 avg rating — 89 ratings
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The Supergirls: Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines
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3.79 avg rating — 1,258 ratings
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The Encyclopedia of Superheroes
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4.35 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Morphology of the Folktale
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4.01 avg rating — 2,206 ratings
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Vixens, Vamps & Vipers: Lost Villainesses of Golden Age Comics
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4.03 avg rating — 62 ratings
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The Encyclopedia of Super Villains
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4.12 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Appendix N
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3.62 avg rating — 178 ratings
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The Golden Age of Murder
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3.91 avg rating — 929 ratings
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Superheroes and Philosophy: Truth, Justice, and the Socratic Way
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3.84 avg rating — 966 ratings
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The Comic Book Heroes: The First History of Modern Comic Books - From the Silver Age to the Present
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4.01 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Style is the Rocket: and Other Essays on Writing
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4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Divas, Dames & Daredevils: Lost Heroines of Golden Age Comics
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3.77 avg rating — 127 ratings
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The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
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4.39 avg rating — 348 ratings
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The Classic Era of American Comics
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3.51 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Death Carries a Camcorder: Essays on fantasy writing
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4.32 avg rating — 19 ratings
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DC Comics: Sixty Years of the World's Favorite Comic Book Heroes
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3.82 avg rating — 122 ratings
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On Fairy-Stories
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4.11 avg rating — 801 ratings
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Manga: The Complete Guide
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 179 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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The Last Straw: A Critical Autopsy of a Galaxy Far, Far Away
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4.27 avg rating — 51 ratings
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From Barsoom to Malacandra: Musings on Things Past and Things to Come
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4.06 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Danger Is My Business: An Illustrated History of the Fabulous Pulp Magazines: 1896-1953
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4.17 avg rating — 48 ratings
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The Lament of Prometheus: An Examination of David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus
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3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Marvel: Five Fabulous Decades of the World's Greatest Comics
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 268 ratings
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Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth
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3.80 avg rating — 166 ratings
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The Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-earth
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4.31 avg rating — 572 ratings
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