TMHF Top Reads: Non-Fiction

Non-Fiction
A general, very incomplete list of works related to horror fiction


Les Daniels. Living in Fear: A History of Horror in the Mass Media

Ruth Franklin. Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

Christopher Golden. Cut! Horror Writers on Horror Film

Grady Hendrix & Will Errickson (that's me!). Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s & '80s Horror Fiction

Darryl Jones. Horror: A Thematic History in Fiction and Film
Stephen Jones & Kim Newman. Horror: 100 Best Books (2 vols.)
Stephen Jones. Clive Barker's Shadows in Eden
S.T. Joshi. Lovecraft: A Life; Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction (2 vols); The Evolution of the Weird Tale  

Walter Kendrick. The Thrill of Fear: 250 Years of Scary Entertainment
Stephen King. Danse Macabre
Lisa Kröger & Melanie R. Anderson. Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction

H.P. Lovecraft. Supernatural Horror in Literature

Tony Magistrale. A Dark Night's Dreaming: Contemporary American Horror Fiction 

Darrell Schweitzer. Speaking of Horror: Interviews with Writers of the Supernatural; Discovering Modern Horror Fiction (2 vols.)
David J. Skal. The Monster Show

Jack Sullivan. The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural

Marshall B. Tymm.  Horror Literature: A Core Collection & Reference Guide

Stanley Wiater. Dark Dreamers: Conversations with the Masters of Horror

Douglas E. Winter. Shadowings: The Reader's Guide to Horror Fiction; Faces of Fear: Encounters with the Creators of Modern Horror; Stephen King: The Art of Darkness; Clive Barker: The Dark Fantastic


More titles to come....

2 comments:

ssss said...

try The Philosophy of Horror or Paradoxes of The Heart by Noel Caroll

Unknown said...

Can't forget the Supernatural Index, for anthologies anyway.