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Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,340 ratings — published 1992
In the Dust of This Planet (Horror of Philosophy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,964 ratings — published 2011
The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,190 ratings — published 1993
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 — 1,516 ratings — published 2012
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,170 ratings — published 1980
The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,528 ratings — published 1993
The Weird and the Eerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 6,037 ratings — published 2016
Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.13 — 351 ratings — published 1995
Danse Macabre (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.67 — 32,251 ratings — published 1981
Monster Theory: Reading Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.91 — 333 ratings — published 1996
Tentacles Longer Than Night (Horror of Philosophy, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.96 — 382 ratings — published 2015
Starry Speculative Corpse (Horror of Philosophy, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.89 — 567 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 4.10 — 357 ratings — published 1996
The Philosophy of Horror or Paradoxes of the Heart (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.74 — 737 ratings — published 1990
The Forbidden Body (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 17 ratings — published
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,676 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 — 2,667 ratings — published 2011
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.34 — 328,029 ratings — published 2000
Blue Light of the Screen: On Horror, Ghosts, and God (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.93 — 188 ratings — published 2020
The Spectacle of the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.90 — 188 ratings — published 2014
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.25 — 766,323 ratings — published 1938
The Castle of Otranto (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.19 — 45,722 ratings — published 1764
Uncle Silas (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.74 — 7,408 ratings — published 1864
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 228,540 ratings — published 1872
Death Makes a Holiday: A Cultural History of Halloween (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 851 ratings — published 2002
Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 41 ratings — published
Horror Needs No Passport: 20th Century Horror Fiction Outside the U.S. and U.K. (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 10 ratings — published
American Horrors: Essays on the Modern American Horror Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.89 — 37 ratings — published 1987
Horror Film: A Critical Introduction (Film Genres)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 38 ratings — published
TV Horror: Investigating the Dark Side of the Small Screen (Investigating Cult TV)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.16 — 25 ratings — published 2013
The Living and the Undead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 18 ratings — published 1986
The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story (Routledge Literature Handbooks)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 7 ratings — published
The Troll Inside You: Paranormal Activity in the Medieval North (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 26 ratings — published
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 3.68 — 2,892 ratings — published 1757
On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.67 — 990 ratings — published 2009
Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections, and Other Obsessions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,617 ratings — published 2013
Gothic Things: Dark Enchantment and Anthropocene Anxiety (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.89 — 9 ratings — published
Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,425 ratings — published 2024
The Uncanny (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.84 — 4,137 ratings — published 1919
Shirley Jackson's American Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.44 — 55 ratings — published 2003
Dead Funny: The Humor of American Horror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 8 ratings — published
Dreadful Pleasures: An Anatomy of Modern Horror (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.43 — 58 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 — 21,997 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 — 1,081 ratings — published 1997
Screaming for Pleasure: How Horror Makes You Happy and Healthy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 166 ratings — published 2018
A Critical History and Filmography of Toho's Godzilla® Series (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.44 — 201 ratings — published 1997
Monsters of the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 256 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 — 45 ratings — published 2012