Nonfiction Halloween
100. 
Monsters Among Us: An Exploration of Otherworldly Bigfoots, Wolfmen, Portals, Phantoms, and Odd Phenomena
by:
Linda S. Godfrey
3.61 avg rating — 645 ratings 
100. 
Haunted Air: Anonymous Halloween photographs from c. 1875–1955
by:
Ossian Brown
4.51 avg rating — 274 ratings 
104. 
Spectral Edition: Ghost Reports from U.S. Newspapers, 1865-1917
by:
Tim Prasil
4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings 107. 
Imagination and Fantasy in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time: Projections, Dreams, Monsters, and Illusions
by:
Albrecht Classen
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 108. 
111. 
Haunted: On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies, and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural Worlds
by:
Leo Braudy
3.46 avg rating — 140 ratings 
115. 
People are Seeing Something: a Survey of Lake Monsters in the United States and Canada
by:
Denver Michaels
3.98 avg rating — 40 ratings 
117. 
Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
by:
Kathryn Harkup
3.90 avg rating — 610 ratings 117. 
The Restless Dead: Ghostly Tales from Around the World
by:
Daniel Cohen
3.47 avg rating — 45 ratings 117. 
MONSTERS AND MAIDENS - Amphora Pottery of the Art Nouveau Era
by:
Byron Vreeland
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 120. 
Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting
by:
W. Scott Poole
3.89 avg rating — 464 ratings 
124. 
The Appearance of Evil: Apparitions of Spirits in Wales
by:
Edmund Jones
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
126. 
Where Monsters Walked: California Locations of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, 1925-1965
by:
Gail Orwig
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings 
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131. 
Haunted Pacific: Anthropologists Investigate Spectral Apparitions across Oceania 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
134. 
Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror
by:
W. Scott Poole
3.91 avg rating — 956 ratings 134. 
Tracking the Chupacabra: The Vampire Beast in Fact, Fiction, and Folklore
by:
Benjamin Radford
3.85 avg rating — 109 ratings 
137. 
Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England's Vampires
by:
Michael E. Bell
3.61 avg rating — 344 ratings 
137. 
Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present
by:
Peter Vronsky
3.82 avg rating — 2,290 ratings 137. 
Monsters and Monstrosity in Jewish History: From the Middle Ages to Modernity 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
141. 
The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
by:
Mallory O'Meara
3.96 avg rating — 6,507 ratings 141. 
Haunted Houses and Ghostly Encounters: Ethnography and Animism in East Timor, 1860–1975 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
144. 
Cursed Objects: Strange but True Stories of the World's Most Infamous Items
by:
J.W. Ocker
3.70 avg rating — 3,342 ratings 144. 
The Big Book of Monsters: The Creepiest Creatures from Classic Literature
by:
Hal Johnson
4.04 avg rating — 170 ratings 147. 
Vampires Are Us: Understanding Our Love Affair with the Immortal Dark Side
by:
Margot Adler
3.43 avg rating — 86 ratings 147. 
Behind the Horror: True Stories That Inspired Horror Movies
by:
Lee Mellor
3.83 avg rating — 1,977 ratings 147. 
The Oakland Ghost, and Ancient Phenomena; with a Review of the Oakland Committee liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
150. 
Banshees, Werewolves, Vampires, and Other Creatures of the Night: Facts, Fictions, and First-Hand Accounts
by:
Varla Ventura
3.54 avg rating — 157 ratings 
150. 
150. 
Supernatural Encounters: Demons and the Restless Dead in Medieval England, C.1050-1450
by:
Stephen Gordon
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 154. 
Vampires, Werewolves & Demons: Twentieth Century Reports in the Psychiatric Literature
by:
Richard Noll
3.71 avg rating — 28 ratings 
154. 
Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television
by:
Jeffrey Sconce
4.08 avg rating — 114 ratings 
158. 
Spirits of New Orleans: Voodoo Curses, Vampire Legends and Cities of the Dead
by:
Kala Ambrose
3.97 avg rating — 206 ratings 158. 
Dracula: A Biography of Vlad the Impaler 1431-1476
by:
Radu R. Florescu
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 120 ratings 158. 
The Staging of Witchcraft and a "Spectacle of Strangeness": Witchcraft at Court and the Globe it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
158. 
Sleeping With the Lights on: The Unsettling Story of Horror
by:
Darryl Jones
3.81 avg rating — 201 ratings 162. 
Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment: Scotland, 1670 - 1740 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
162. 
The Werewolf Book: The Encyclopedia Of Shape-Shifting Beings
by:
Brad Steiger
3.82 avg rating — 480 ratings 
162. 
166. 
Damnable Practises: Witches, Dangerous Women, and Music in Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballads 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
166. 
True Ghost Stories: A Psychic Research Hunts for Evidence of Hauntings
by:
Brad Steiger
3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings 
170. 
Co-habiting with Ghosts: Knowledge, Experience, Belief and the Domestic Uncanny
by:
Caron Lipman
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating 170. 
176. 
Selling Salem's Witches: An Ethnography of a New England Tourist Town
by:
Alexandra Aird
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 
176. 
Scare Me! A Symposium on Ghosts and Black Magic by Ed Bodin, Collector of Mystic Facts, and Descendant of Jean Bodin, Famous Mystic of the XVIth Century
by:
ed Bodin
it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating 176. 
The Very Witching Time of Night: Dark Alleys of Classic Horror Cinema 4.44 avg rating — 48 ratings
180. 
Vexed with Devils: Manhood and Witchcraft in Old and New England (Early American Places, 6)
by:
Erika Gasser
3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings 
180. 
Dark Dreams 2.0: A Psychological History of the Modern Horror Film from the 1950s to the 21st Century
by:
Charles Derry
4.03 avg rating — 37 ratings 184. 
The Devil of Great Island: Witchcraft and Conflict in Early New England
by:
Emerson W. Baker
3.61 avg rating — 127 ratings 
184. 
Was it a ghost? The Murders in Bussey's Wood, An Extraordinary Narrative 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
184. 
The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar 4.04 avg rating — 1,485 ratings
188. 
There Are Alligators in Our Sewers and Other American Credos
by:
Paul Dickson
2.82 avg rating — 11 ratings 188. 
Two Thousand Years of a Charm Against the Child Stealing Witch (Folklore History Series)
by:
M. Gastor
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 188. 
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
by:
Joe Vallese
4.14 avg rating — 5,670 ratings 191. 
A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience
by:
Emerson W. Baker
3.84 avg rating — 1,319 ratings 
191. 
A True Ghost Story, or Three Nights in a Haunted House, and a Brief Sketch of Superstition 2.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
191. 
Dark Carnivals: Modern Horror and the Origins of American Empire
by:
W. Scott Poole
3.82 avg rating — 293 ratings 195. 
Salem-Village Witchcraft: A Documentary Record of Local Conflict in Colonial New England
by:
Paul S. Boyer
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 41 ratings 
195. 
Shocking Representation: Historical Trauma, National Cinema, and the Modern Horror Film (Film and Culture Series)
by:
Adam Lowenstein
3.87 avg rating — 63 ratings 199. 
The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland
by:
Emma Wilby
4.46 avg rating — 96 ratings 