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Horror Theory Books
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Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,171 ratings — published 1992
The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,110 ratings — published 1993
In the Dust of This Planet (Horror of Philosophy, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,885 ratings — published 2011
House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,416 ratings — published 2012
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,039 ratings — published 1980
The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,508 ratings — published 1993
The Weird and the Eerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,504 ratings — published 2016
Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 335 ratings — published 1995
Danse Macabre (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.67 — 31,448 ratings — published 1981
Tentacles Longer Than Night (Horror of Philosophy, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.95 — 367 ratings — published 2015
Starry Speculative Corpse (Horror of Philosophy, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.89 — 553 ratings — published 2015
The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film (Texas Film Studies Series)
by (shelved 3 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 348 ratings — published 1996
The Philosophy of Horror (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.75 — 708 ratings — published 1990
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,215 ratings — published 2022
Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,644 ratings — published 2011
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.34 — 319,333 ratings — published 2000
The Contested Castle: Gothic Novels and the Subversion of Domestic Ideology (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 58 ratings — published 1989
Blue Light of the Screen: On Horror, Ghosts, and God (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.93 — 184 ratings — published 2020
Monster Theory: Reading Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.91 — 317 ratings — published 1996
The Spectacle of the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.91 — 181 ratings — published 2014
Horror on the Stage: Monsters, Murders and Terrifying Moments in Theater (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,777 ratings — published 1757
On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.67 — 981 ratings — published 2009
Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections, and Other Obsessions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,585 ratings — published 2013
Gothic Things: Dark Enchantment and Anthropocene Anxiety (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.88 — 8 ratings — published
Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,110 ratings — published 2024
The Uncanny (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,942 ratings — published 1919
Shirley Jackson's American Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.42 — 53 ratings — published 2003
Dead Funny: The Humor of American Horror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 7 ratings — published
Dreadful Pleasures: An Anatomy of Modern Horror (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.42 — 57 ratings — published 1985
Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 21,430 ratings — published 1973
Gothic: Transmutations of Horror in Late Twentieth Century Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.56 — 34 ratings — published 1997
On Writing Horror: A Handbook by the Horror Writers Association (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,079 ratings — published 1997
Screaming for Pleasure: How Horror Makes You Happy and Healthy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 164 ratings — published 2018
A Critical History and Filmography of Toho's Godzilla® Series (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.45 — 190 ratings — published 1997
Monsters of the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 255 ratings — published 1994
Dark Directions: Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the Modern Horror Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.80 — 44 ratings — published 2012
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue: The Evolution of the American Horror Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.73 — 55 ratings — published 2004
The Hellbound Heart (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 69,059 ratings — published 1986
Classic Monsters Unleashed (Unleashed Series)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.74 — 464 ratings — published 2022
Dark Carnivals: Modern Horrors and the Origins of American Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.84 — 305 ratings — published 2022
The Forbidden Body (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 18 ratings — published
Global Corpse Politics: The Obscenity Taboo (Cambridge Studies in International Relations)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.00 — 2 ratings — published
Haunted Property: Slavery and the Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.83 — 6 ratings — published
Possessed Women, Haunted States: Cultural Tensions in Exorcism Cinema (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 2.75 — 4 ratings — published 2016
Satanic Feminism: Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.25 — 179 ratings — published 2014
Race, Oppression and the Zombie: Essays on Cross-Cultural Appropriations of the Caribbean Tradition (Contributions to Zombie Studies)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 27 ratings — published 2011
Hideous Progeny: Disability, Eugenics, and Classic Horror Cinema (Film and Culture Series)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 45 ratings — published 2011
Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.89 — 473 ratings — published 2011
Notes on Blood Meridian (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 590 ratings — published 2008
