Horror meets Politics
1. 
The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How it Changed America
by:
David Hajdu
3.86 avg rating β 3,682 ratings 2. 
Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror
by:
W. Scott Poole
3.91 avg rating β 956 ratings 3. 
Blood and Money: War, Slavery, Finance, and Empire
by:
David McNally
4.20 avg rating β 121 ratings 
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Bitches, Bimbos & Virgins: Women in the Horror Film
by:
Gary J. Svehla
3.57 avg rating β 7 ratings 
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Figures of Desire: A Theory and Analysis of Surrealist Film
by:
Linda Williams
3.63 avg rating β 19 ratings 8. 
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Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture
by:
Annalee Newitz
3.64 avg rating β 75 ratings 9. 
House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films
by:
Kier-la Janisse
4.44 avg rating β 1,302 ratings 
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Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism (Historical Materialism Book Series, 30)
by:
David McNally
4.46 avg rating β 123 ratings 
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The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis
by:
Barbara Creed
4.09 avg rating β 1,038 ratings 
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Undead Uprising: Haiti, Horror and The Zombie Complex
by:
John Cussans
4.50 avg rating β 10 ratings 18. 
Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film
by:
Carol J. Clover
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 3,006 ratings 
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A Haunt of Fears: The Strange History of the British Horror Comics Campaign (Studies in Popular Culture Series)
by:
Martin Barker
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 20 ratings 22. 
The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film (Texas Film Studies Series) 4.10 avg rating β 346 ratings
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The Horror! The Horror!: Comic Books the Government Didn't Want You to Read!
by:
Jim Trombetta
4.04 avg rating β 604 ratings 24. 
The Monstrous-Feminine in Contemporary Japanese Popular Culture
by:
Raechel Dumas
3.83 avg rating β 12 ratings 24. 
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Robin Wood on the Horror Film: Collected Essays and Reviews
by:
Robin Wood
4.28 avg rating β 64 ratings 26. 
Black Magic and Bogeymen: Fear, Rumour and Popular Belief in the North of Ireland 1972-74
by:
Richard Jenkins
3.56 avg rating β 9 ratings 28. 
Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
by:
Grady Hendrix
4.26 avg rating β 11,486 ratings 28. 
Neptuneβs Laboratory: Fantasy, Fear, and Science at Sea
by:
Antony Adler
4.17 avg rating β 6 ratings 
30. 
Dread: How Fear and Fantasy have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to the Avian Flu
by:
Philip Alcabes
3.18 avg rating β 142 ratings 
32. 
On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears
by:
Stephen T. Asma
3.67 avg rating β 964 ratings 34. 
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The Church of Fear: Inside the Weird World of Scientology
by:
John Sweeney
3.85 avg rating β 1,639 ratings 36. 
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The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present
by:
Ronald Hutton
3.63 avg rating β 1,644 ratings 
38. 
The Science of Monsters: the Origins of the Creatures We Love to Fear
by:
Matt Kaplan
3.56 avg rating β 1,371 ratings 
40. 
Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump
by:
Spencer Ackerman
4.12 avg rating β 2,166 ratings 42. 
The Grand Inquisitor's Manual: A History of Terror in the Name of God
by:
Jonathan Kirsch
3.70 avg rating β 412 ratings 
43. 
White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction 4.02 avg rating β 53 ratings
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The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film (Texas Film and Media Studies Series) 4.10 avg rating β 346 ratings
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Public Privates: Feminist Geographies of Mediated Spaces really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
47. 
Lynched: The Power of Memory in a Culture of Terror
by:
Angela D. Sims
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 23 ratings 
49. 
Ghastly Terror!: The Horrible Story of the Horror Comics
by:
Stephen Sennitt
3.88 avg rating β 8 ratings 
51. 
At War with War: 5000 Years of Conquests, Invasions, and Terrorist Attacks, An Illustrated Timeline
by:
Seymour Chwast
3.07 avg rating β 14 ratings 
55. 
The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking (ALA Notable Books for Adults) 4.04 avg rating β 4,289 ratings
57. 
On Western Terrorism: From Hiroshima to Drone Warfare
by:
Noam Chomsky
3.84 avg rating β 1,072 ratings 
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The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination 4.21 avg rating β 4,064 ratings
65. 
Searching for Sycorax: Black Women's Hauntings of Contemporary Horror 4.30 avg rating β 37 ratings
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Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History
by:
Cathy Caruth
3.76 avg rating β 640 ratings 
70. 
Recreational Terror: Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing 4.02 avg rating β 130 ratings
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Haunting the House of Fiction: Feminist Perspectives on Ghost Stories by American Women
by:
Wendy Kolmar
4.14 avg rating β 7 ratings 73. 
The Female Fantastic: Gendering the Supernatural in the 1890s and 1920s 0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
74. 
Female Gothic Histories: Gender, History and the Gothic
by:
Diana Wallace
3.67 avg rating β 15 ratings 75. 
Metamorphoses of science fiction: On the poetics and history of a literary genre
by:
Darko Suvin
3.98 avg rating β 126 ratings 76. 
Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler 4.32 avg rating β 25 ratings
77. 
Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction
by:
Sherryl Vint
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating 78. 
Science Fiction and Cultural Theory: A Reader
by:
Sherryl Vint
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 3 ratings 79. 
Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond
by:
Marleen S. Barr
3.19 avg rating β 16 ratings 80. 
Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory
by:
Marleen S. Barr
3.31 avg rating β 16 ratings 81. 
Future Females, The Next Generation: New Voices and Velocities in Feminist Science Fiction Criticism
by:
Marleen S. Barr
3.86 avg rating β 14 ratings 82. 
Female Rebellion in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction (Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present)
by:
Sara K. Day
4.31 avg rating β 45 ratings 83. 
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Alien to Femininity: Speculative Fiction and Feminist Theory
by:
Marleen S. Barr
3.57 avg rating β 7 ratings 
86. 
Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults: Brave New Teenagers
by:
Balaka Basu
3.67 avg rating β 24 ratings 87. 
Science Fiction (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
by:
Sherryl Vint
3.93 avg rating β 99 ratings 88. 
Bodies of Tomorrow: Technology, Subjectivity, Science Fiction
by:
Sherryl Vint
4.37 avg rating β 35 ratings 89. 
Holy Horror: The Bible and Fear in Movies
by:
Steve A. Wiggins
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 7 ratings 
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Are You In The House Alone?: A TV Movie Compendium 1964-1999
by:
Amanda Reyes
4.03 avg rating β 150 ratings 94. 
Immoral Tales: European Sex and Horror Movies, 1956-1984
by:
Cathal Tohill
4.22 avg rating β 256 ratings 95. 
Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
by:
Lisa KrΓΆger
4.06 avg rating β 4,280 ratings 
97. 
Ideology and the Virtual City: Videogames, Power Fantasies And Neoliberalism
by:
Jon Bailes
3.79 avg rating β 53 ratings 98. 
In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives 3.97 avg rating β 1,164 ratings
