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To Each Their Darkness by Gary A. Braunbeck
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The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas Ligotti
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Wanted Undead or Alive by Jonathan Maberry & Janice Gable Bashman
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Listen to the Echoes: the Ray Bradbury Interviews by Sam Weller
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Stephen King: a Literary Companion by Rocky Wood
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Halloween Nation: Behind the Scenes of America's Fright Night by Lesley Pratt Bannatyne
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Reflections in a Glass Darkly: Essays on J. Sheridan Le Fanu edited by Gary William Crawford, Jim Rockhill, & Brian J. Showers
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Starve Better by Nick Mamatas
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Everything You Ever Watned to Know About Zombies by Matt Mogk
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The Gothic Imagination by John C. Tibbetts
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Trick or Treat: a History of Halloween by Lisa Morton
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Writing Darkness by Mochael Collings
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The Annotated Sandman, Volume 1 by Leslie S. Klinger
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The Undead and Theology by Kim Paffenroth & John W. Morehead
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Dark Directions: Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the Modern Horror Film by Kendall R. Phillips
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Nolan on Bradbury: Sixty Years of Writing About the Master of Science Fiction by William F. Nolan
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Images of the Modern Vampire: the Hip and the Atavistic by Barbara Brodman & James E. Doan (ed.)
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Ramsey Campbell: Critical Essays on the Modern Master of Horror by Gary William Crawford (ed.)
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The Intermedial Experience of Horror: Suspended Failures by Jarkko Toikkanen
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Lovecraft and Influence: His Predecessors and Successors by Robert H. Waugh (ed.)
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Shooting Yourself in the Head for Fun and Profit: a Writer's Survival Guide by Lucy A. Snyder
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Disorders of Magnitute by Jason V. Brock
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Lovecraft and a World in Transition by S. T. Joshi
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The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft by Leslie Klinger
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Horror 1010: the Way Forward by Joe Mynhardt & Emma Audsley
The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft by H. P. Lovecraft; Leslie S. Klinger (Editor); Alan Moore (Introduction by)Call Number: FIC LOVEC HP NE (Adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780871404534
Publication Date: 2014-10-13
In this volume, Leslie S. Klinger reanimates Lovecraft with clarity and historical insight, charting the rise of the erstwhile pulp writer, whose rediscovery and reclamation into the literary canon can be compared only to that of Poe or Melville. Weaving together a broad base of existing scholarship with his own original insights, Klinger appends Lovecraft's uncanny oeuvre and Kafkaesque life story in a way that provides context and unlocks many of the secrets of his often cryptic body of work.
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The Art of Horror by Stephen Jones
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The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales: the Evolution of Modern Fantasy and Horror by Justin Everett & Jeffrey H. Shanks (ed.)
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Author's Guide to Marketing with Teeth by Michael Knost
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Horror 201: the Silver Scream by Joe Mynhardt & Emma Audsley
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Studies in the Horror Film: Stanley Kubrick's The Shining by Danel Olsen
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Shirley Jackson: a Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin
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Guillermo del Toro's "The Devil's Backborn" and "Pan's Labyrinth": Studies in the Horror Film by Danel P. Olson
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In the Mountains of Madness: the Life, Death and Extraordinary Afterlife of H. P. Lovecraft by W. Scott Poole
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Something in the Blood: the Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula by David J. Skal
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The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub by John Tibbetts
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Paperbacks from Hell: the Twisted History of the '70s and '80s Horror Fiction by Grady Hendrix
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Horror in Space: Critical Essays on a Film Subgenre by Michele Brittany
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Searching for Sycorax: Black Women's Hauntings of Contemporary Horror by Kinitra D. Brooks
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The Art of Horror Movies: an Illustrated History by Stephen Jones
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Where Nightmares Come From: the Art of Storytelling in the Horror Genre by Joe Mynhardt & Eugene Johnson
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It's Alive: Bringing Your Nightmares to Life by Joe Mynhardt & Eugene Johnson
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Horror Express by John Connolly
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The Howling: Studies in the Horror Film by Lee Gambin
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We Don't Go Back: a Watcher's Guide to Folk Horror by Howard David Ingham
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Uncovering Stranger Things: Essays on Eighties Nostalgia, Cynicism and Innocence in the Series by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. (ed.)
Uncovering Stranger Things : essays on eighties nostalgia, Cynicism and innocence in the series by Kevin J. Wetmore (Editor)Call Number: 791.45 W541u (Adult nonfiction)
ISBN: 9781476671864
Publication Date: 2018-03-30
The Duffer Brothers' celebrated and award-winning series Stranger Things exploded into the pop culture scene in 2016. In twenty-three essays, scholars from all over the world consider how Stranger Things reduces, reuses, and recycles the eighties and the pop culture that decade produced.
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Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kröger & Melanie R. Anderson
Monster, She Wrote [E-Book] : the women who pioneered horror & speculative fiction by Lisa Kröger & Melanie R. AndersonCall Number: 809.9164 K93m Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9781683691396
Publication Date: 2019
Meet the women writers who defied convention to craft some of literature's strangest tales, from Frankenstein to The Haunting of Hill House and beyond . Frankenstein was just the beginning: horror stories and other weird fiction wouldn't exist without the women who created it. From Gothic ghost stories to psychological horror to science fiction, women have been primary architects of speculative literature of all sorts. And their own life stories are as intriguing as their fiction. Everyone knows about Mary Shelley ,creator of Frankenstein, who was rumored to keep her late husband's heart in her desk drawer. But have you heard of Margaret "Mad Madge" Cavendish, who wrote a science-fiction epic 150 years earlier (and liked to wear topless gowns to the theater)? If you know the astounding work of Shirley Jackson, whose novel The Haunting of Hill House was reinvented as a Netflix series, then try the psychological hauntings of Violet Paget, who was openly involved in long-term romantic relationships with women in the Victorian era. You'll meet celebrated icons (Ann Radcliffe, V. C. Andrews), forgotten wordsmiths (Eli Coltor, Ruby Jean Jensen), and today's vanguard (Helen Oyeyemi). Curated reading lists point you to their most spine-chilling tales. Part biography, part reader's guide, the engaging write-ups and detailed reading lists will introduce you to more than a hundred authors and over two hundred of their mysterious and spooky novels, novellas, and stories.
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Horror and Religion: New Literary Approaches to Theology, Race, and Sexuality by Eleanor Beal & Jonathan Greenaway
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Gender, Sexuality, and Queerness in American Horror Story: Critical Essays by Harriet E. H. Earle
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Masks in Horror Cinema: Eyes Without Faces by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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Shapeshifters: a History by John B. Kachuba
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Uncovering Stranger Things : essays on eighties nostalgia, Cynicism and innocence in the series by 
Monster, She Wrote [E-Book] : the women who pioneered horror & speculative fiction by 
On Writing : a memoir of the craft by 
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The Diary of Jack the Ripper [E-Book] : the chilling confessions of James Maybrick by 
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