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Hooked on Horror III: A Guide to Reading Interests
Hundreds of new horror titles are described and organized according to reading preferences in this new volume of Fonseca and Pulliam's award-winning readers' advisory guide. Focusing on titles published in the last decade, along with a few older classics, the authors cover more than a dozen popular subgenres of horror fiction, including vampires and werewolves, techno-horror, ghosts and haunted houses, and small town horror. Lively annotations and commentary help you find the right book for your most demanding horror fans. More than 500 annotations are new to this edition.
Hundreds of new horror titles are described and organized according to reading preferences in this new volume of Fonseca and Pulliam's award-winning readers' advisory guide. Focusing on titles published since 2002 and broadly accessible to library users, along with a few older classics, the authors cover more than a dozen popular subgenres of horror fiction, including vampires and werewolves, techno-horror, ghosts and haunted houses, and small town horror. Lively annotations and commentary help you find the right book for your most demanding horror fans. More than 500 annotations are new to this edition.
Background information on current trends, the history, and appeals of the genre are also offered, along with lists of pertinent resources.
Hundreds of new horror titles are described and organized according to reading preferences in this new volume of Fonseca and Pulliam's award-winning readers' advisory guide. Focusing on titles published since 2002 and broadly accessible to library users, along with a few older classics, the authors cover more than a dozen popular subgenres of horror fiction, including vampires and werewolves, techno-horror, ghosts and haunted houses, and small town horror. Lively annotations and commentary help you find the right book for your most demanding horror fans. More than 500 annotations are new to this edition.
Background information on current trends, the history, and appeals of the genre are also offered, along with lists of pertinent resources.
- GenresHorror
540 pages, Hardcover
First published March 20, 2009
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May 2, 2021
annotated bibliography of horror novels
After skim reading this, I added "Stranger" by Simon Clark and "Relic" by Preston and Child to my TBR
After skim reading this, I added "Stranger" by Simon Clark and "Relic" by Preston and Child to my TBR
December 1, 2016
I don't actually consider myself someone who likes horror. When it comes to movies, I don't generally watch them without a friend to laugh and make commentary on it. But something about the books intrigue me and despite having looked through other horror title listings, I still found tons in this book. There are lots of categories for all interest fields, and titles are mentioned in multiple chapters if they have multiple themes, a summary of them only provided in their main chapter with directions on where to find it in the other chapters.
The one thing I did notice though, especially since this isn't a first edition, is that there were a lot of typos. Words not included, misspelled, letters in the wrong order, forgotten letters, forgotten punctuation, etc. One book seemed to be under the wrong author; the book said the title was written by Christopher Golden and Stephen King but Goodreads says it was written by CG and someone else. And in one chapter they forgot to include Dean Koontz's name above his titles, making it seem like the titles were written by the author before him in the listing. I only knew this mistake because I own one of the titles and it's by Dean Koontz.
The one thing I did notice though, especially since this isn't a first edition, is that there were a lot of typos. Words not included, misspelled, letters in the wrong order, forgotten letters, forgotten punctuation, etc. One book seemed to be under the wrong author; the book said the title was written by Christopher Golden and Stephen King but Goodreads says it was written by CG and someone else. And in one chapter they forgot to include Dean Koontz's name above his titles, making it seem like the titles were written by the author before him in the listing. I only knew this mistake because I own one of the titles and it's by Dean Koontz.
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