Horror Movie Books
1. 
Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film
by:
Carol J. Clover
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,010 ratings 2. 
Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror
by:
Jason Zinoman
3.86 avg rating — 2,604 ratings 3. 
Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th
by:
Peter M. Bracke
4.50 avg rating — 923 ratings 4. 
Creature Features: The Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Movie Guide
by:
John Stanley
4.10 avg rating — 146 ratings 
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Rue Morgue Magazine's 200 Alternative Horror Films You Need To See
by:
Rodrigo Gudino
4.38 avg rating — 68 ratings 9. 
Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen
by:
David J. Skal
4.22 avg rating — 528 ratings 
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Monsters in the Movies: 100 Years of Cinematic Nightmares
by:
John Landis
4.20 avg rating — 925 ratings 12. 
Book of the Dead: The Complete History of Zombie Cinema
by:
Jamie Russell
4.26 avg rating — 515 ratings 
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Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents
by:
Stephen Thrower
4.68 avg rating — 338 ratings 15. 
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House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films
by:
Kier-la Janisse
4.44 avg rating — 1,302 ratings 18. 
The 1990s Teen Horror Cycle: Final Girls and a New Hollywood Formula
by:
Alexandra West
3.81 avg rating — 235 ratings 19. 
Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film, 1978 to 1986
by:
Adam Rockoff
3.97 avg rating — 258 ratings 
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Behind the Horror: True Stories That Inspired Horror Movies
by:
Lee Mellor
3.83 avg rating — 1,978 ratings 22. 
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Music in the Horror Film: Listening to Fear (Routledge Music and Screen Media Series)
by:
Neil Lerner
3.64 avg rating — 22 ratings 
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European Nightmares: Horror Cinema in Europe Since 1945
by:
Patricia Allmer
3.59 avg rating — 22 ratings 25. 
The Science of Women in Horror: The Special Effects, Stunts, and True Stories Behind Your Favorite Fright Films
by:
Meg Hafdahl
3.82 avg rating — 336 ratings 
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Wes Craven's Last House on the Left: The Making of a Cult Classic
by:
David A. Szulkin
4.13 avg rating — 75 ratings 
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Are You In The House Alone?: A TV Movie Compendium 1964-1999
by:
Amanda Reyes
4.03 avg rating — 150 ratings 32. 
Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff: The Expanded Story of a Haunting Collaboration 4.52 avg rating — 126 ratings
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Sleazoid Express: A Mind-Twisting Tour Through the Grindhouse Cinema of Times Square
by:
Bill Landis
4.15 avg rating — 381 ratings 
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The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis
by:
Barbara Creed
4.09 avg rating — 1,038 ratings 39. 
Fangoria's 101 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen: A Celebration of the World's Most Unheralded Fright Flicks
by:
Adam Lukeman
3.89 avg rating — 185 ratings 
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Universal Horrors: The Studio's Classic Films, 1931-1946
by:
Tom Weaver
4.40 avg rating — 153 ratings 45. 
Dark Visions: Conversations With the Masters of the Horror Film
by:
Stanley Wiater
3.77 avg rating — 39 ratings 46. 
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VideoHound's Horror Show: 999 Hair-Raising, Hellish and Humorous Movies
by:
Michael Mayo
3.96 avg rating — 78 ratings 
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Golden Horrors: An Illustrated Critical Filmography of Terror Cinema, 1931-1939
by:
Bryan Senn
4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings 53. 
The Fearmakers: The Screen's Directorial Masters of Suspense and Terror
by:
John McCarty
3.73 avg rating — 22 ratings 54. 
Robin Wood on the Horror Film: Collected Essays and Reviews
by:
Robin Wood
4.28 avg rating — 64 ratings 55. 
Living In Fear: The History Of Horror In The Mass Media
by:
Les Daniels
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 35 ratings 55. 
The Phantom of the Movies' VIDEOSCOPE: The Ultimate Guide to the Latest, Greatest, and Weirdest Genre Videos
by:
Joe Kane
4.25 avg rating — 51 ratings 
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Nightmares in Red, White and Blue: The Evolution of the American Horror Film
by:
Joseph Maddrey
3.75 avg rating — 55 ratings 
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Hocus Pocus in Focus: The Thinking Fan's Guide to Disney's Halloween Classic
by:
Aaron Wallace
3.73 avg rating — 231 ratings 57. 
Blood Splatter: A Guide to Cinematic Zombie Violence, Gore and Special Effects
by:
Craig W. Chenery
4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings 
57. 
The Movie Treasury: Horror Movies: Tales of Terror in the Cinema
by:
Alan G. Frank
3.92 avg rating — 78 ratings 
57. 
Vampires in Italian Cinema, 1956-1975
by:
Michael Guarneri
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
69. 
Beyond Fear: Reflections on Stephen King, Wes Craven, and George Romero's Living Dead
by:
Joseph Maddrey
3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings 
69. 
Splatter Movies: Breaking the Last Taboo of the Screen
by:
John McCarty
4.06 avg rating — 36 ratings 
69. 
Guillermo del Toro: The Iconic Filmmaker and his Work (Iconic Filmmakers Series)
by:
Ian Nathan
4.25 avg rating — 119 ratings 
78. 
They Came from Within: A History of Canadian Horror Cinema
by:
Caelum Vatnsdal
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 27 ratings 78. 
Tobe Hooper's Salem's Lot: Studies in the Horror Film
by:
Tony Earnshaw
3.96 avg rating — 26 ratings 78. 
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Hollywood Monster: A Walk Down Elm Street with the Man of Your Dreams
by:
Robert Englund
4.04 avg rating — 671 ratings 
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Die Angst sitzt neben Dir. Gesamtausgabe
by:
Frank Trebbin
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
85. 
Italian Giallo in Film and Television: A Critical History
by:
Roberto Curti
4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings 92. 
An Illustrated History Of Horror And Science-fiction Films: The Classic Era, 1895-1967
by:
Carlos Clarens
3.88 avg rating — 40 ratings 92. 
Mondo Macabro : Weird & Wonderful Cinema Around the World
by:
Pete Tombs
4.40 avg rating — 155 ratings 92. 
Abject Terrors: Surveying the Modern and Postmodern Horror Film
by:
Tony Magistrale
3.90 avg rating — 20 ratings 92. 
Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters: Inside His Films, Notebooks, and Collections
by:
Jim Shedden
4.35 avg rating — 426 ratings 
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The Reel Ghoul II - The Celluloid Addiction
by:
Ustumallagam
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 96. 
A Critical History of Television's the Twilight Zone, 1959-1964
by:
Don Presnell
3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings 100. 
Xerox Ferox: The Wild World of the Horror Film Fanzine
by:
John Szpunar
4.22 avg rating — 55 ratings