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Hooked on Horror: A Guide to Reading Interests in Horror Fiction
A description of about 1000 contemporary and classic titles in horror fiction. There is background information on the history, trends and appeal of the genre. Works are classified into 13 sub-genres, keywords are listed with each entry to lead users to related titles, and awards are cited.
332 pages, Hardcover
First published November 2, 1999
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July 4, 2013
The authors' decision to organize entries by subject matter is misguided: far too many books fall under more than one heading, resulting in much repetition of entries. Finding all entries for a particular author is difficult; the general index does not list book titles under the author's name.
Discussion of the books does not extend beyond a very brief plot outline, followed by a vague enthusiastic comment or two. I did not get the impression that the authors' knowledge of the subject is particularly deep: Bleiler's classic guides to weird fiction are omitted from the reference section, and Carter's dated and useless book on Lovecraft is listed while Joshi's award-winning biography is not.
On the other hand, I did get some promising leads on books previously unknown to me from reading this book. It's just not a reference source in the same class as similar books by Barron, Tymn, Bleiler, Pringle, and Joshi.
Discussion of the books does not extend beyond a very brief plot outline, followed by a vague enthusiastic comment or two. I did not get the impression that the authors' knowledge of the subject is particularly deep: Bleiler's classic guides to weird fiction are omitted from the reference section, and Carter's dated and useless book on Lovecraft is listed while Joshi's award-winning biography is not.
On the other hand, I did get some promising leads on books previously unknown to me from reading this book. It's just not a reference source in the same class as similar books by Barron, Tymn, Bleiler, Pringle, and Joshi.
October 13, 2021
I actually read the second edition- couldn’t find it in goodreads- and it’s a three. I love the premise. I’d like this book to own to like give me ideas as I need them for reading material but it felt repetitive at times and it was misleading to call it the second edition- it’s really the second volume as it leaves out books from the first edition and focuses on the time since the first was released.
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