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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 — 3,405 ratings — published 1992
The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,209 ratings — published 1993
In the Dust of This Planet (Horror of Philosophy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,979 ratings — published 2011
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,205 ratings — published 1980
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 — 1,536 ratings — published 2012
The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,538 ratings — published 1993
The Weird and the Eerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 6,174 ratings — published 2016
Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 355 ratings — published 1995
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,824 ratings — published 2022
Danse Macabre (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.67 — 32,443 ratings — published 1981
Monster Theory: Reading Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.91 — 336 ratings — published 1996
Tentacles Longer Than Night (Horror of Philosophy, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.95 — 381 ratings — published 2015
Starry Speculative Corpse (Horror of Philosophy, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.88 — 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 — 744 ratings — published 1990
The Forbidden Body (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 17 ratings — published
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 — 2,687 ratings — published 2011
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.34 — 330,039 ratings — published 2000
Why Horror Seduces (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.81 — 117 ratings — published 2017
Blue Light of the Screen: On Horror, Ghosts, and God (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 191 ratings — published 2020
The Spectacle of the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.90 — 190 ratings — published 2014
Monsters in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching What Scares Us (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.55 — 11 ratings — published
Horror Cinema: The Best Scary Movies of All Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 256 ratings — published 2017
Horror: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 429 ratings — published 2021
Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.66 — 4,187 ratings — published 2023
Why I Love Horror (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,877 ratings — published 2025
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.25 — 779,784 ratings — published 1938
The Castle of Otranto (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.20 — 46,777 ratings — published 1764
Uncle Silas (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.74 — 7,590 ratings — published 1864
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 240,183 ratings — published 1872
Death Makes a Holiday: A Cultural History of Halloween (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 866 ratings — published 2002
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 2018
TV Horror: Investigating the Dark Side of the Small Screen (Investigating Cult TV)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 26 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 4.12 — 8 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 — 2,911 ratings — published 1757
On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.67 — 991 ratings — published 2009
Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections, and Other Obsessions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,631 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 — 1,494 ratings — published 2024
The Uncanny (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.84 — 4,171 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 3.90 — 10 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 — 22,068 ratings — published 1973
Gothic: Transmutations of Horror in Late Twentieth Century Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.56 — 36 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 — 1,083 ratings — published 1997