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Death Makes a Holiday: A Cultural History of Halloween
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3.84 avg rating — 710 ratings
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Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night
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3.38 avg rating — 304 ratings
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Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween
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3.68 avg rating — 604 ratings
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Halloween: An American Holiday, an American History
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3.57 avg rating — 231 ratings
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Danse Macabre
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3.65 avg rating — 26,784 ratings
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Halloween Nation: Behind the Scenes of America's Fright Night
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3.78 avg rating — 58 ratings
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The Pagan Mysteries of Halloween: Celebrating the Dark Half of the Year
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3.58 avg rating — 154 ratings
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The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror
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4.11 avg rating — 1,251 ratings
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Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror
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4.05 avg rating — 1,873 ratings
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Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film
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4.06 avg rating — 1,941 ratings
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The World's Most Famous Ghosts
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3.59 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
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4.30 avg rating — 7,197 ratings
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Encyclopedia of Ghosts
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3.72 avg rating — 64 ratings
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A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts
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3.93 avg rating — 815 ratings
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America Bewitched: The Story of Witchcraft After Salem
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3.66 avg rating — 115 ratings
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In Search of Dracula: The History of Dracula and Vampires
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3.87 avg rating — 1,472 ratings
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The Book of Hallowe'en
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3.53 avg rating — 325 ratings
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Medusa's Gaze and Vampire's Bite: The Science of Monsters
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3.55 avg rating — 1,244 ratings
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Ghosts: A Natural History: 500 Years of Searching for Proof
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3.61 avg rating — 872 ratings
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Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits, and Haunted Places
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4.04 avg rating — 1,040 ratings
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Strangely Enough
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 219 ratings
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Yokai Attack!: The Japanese Monster Survival Guide
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4.11 avg rating — 812 ratings
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Monster Hunters: On the Trail with Ghost Hunters, Bigfooters, Ufologists, and Other Paranormal Investigators
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3.52 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Real Ghosts
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3.40 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Urban Legends: 666 Absolutely True Stories That Happened to a Friend...of a Friend…of a Friend
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3.94 avg rating — 237 ratings
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Haunted America (Haunted America, #3)
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3.87 avg rating — 695 ratings
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Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting
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3.92 avg rating — 398 ratings
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Historic Haunted America (Haunted America, #4)
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4.01 avg rating — 1,353 ratings
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Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen Since the 1960s
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4.14 avg rating — 358 ratings
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Civil War Ghosts
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3.55 avg rating — 123 ratings
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The Encyclopedia Of Horror Movies
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4.58 avg rating — 156 ratings
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Real Vampires
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3.39 avg rating — 54 ratings
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The Haunting of America: From the Salem Witch Trials to Harry Houdini
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3.19 avg rating — 268 ratings
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The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic
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3.86 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Hauntings and Horrors: The Ultimate Guide to Spooky America
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3.78 avg rating — 23 ratings
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American Witches: A Broomstick Tour Through Four Centuries
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3.67 avg rating — 765 ratings
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The Encyclopedia of Superstitions
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3.88 avg rating — 97 ratings
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The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present
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3.60 avg rating — 860 ratings
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The Vampire: His Kith and Kin
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3.83 avg rating — 438 ratings
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The Vampire: A Casebook
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3.80 avg rating — 179 ratings
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Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
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3.75 avg rating — 7,646 ratings
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Hocus Pocus in Focus: The Thinking Fan's Guide to Disney's Halloween Classic
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3.77 avg rating — 198 ratings
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The Mystery and Lore of Monsters - With Accounts Of Some Giants, Dwarfs And Prodigies
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3.53 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry Into the Salem Witch Trials
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3.60 avg rating — 841 ratings
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Halloween: Harmless Fun Or Risky Business?
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3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The True History of the Ghost; and all about metempsychosis
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Frankenstein: How A Monster Became an Icon: The Science and Enduring Allure of Mary Shelley's Creation
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3.33 avg rating — 64 ratings
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The Devil's Shadow: The Story of Witchcraft in Massachusetts
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3.05 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Walled up Nuns & Nuns Walled In
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Monsters, Giants and Little Men from Mars: An Unnatural History of the Americas
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3.93 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Occult
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3.92 avg rating — 1,880 ratings
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A Concise Treatise on Lycanthropy: With Annotation and Explanation of Werewolfism. Including Rare & Obscure Tracts and Essays.
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4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Origins of Monsters: Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction
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3.69 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Beyond the Occult
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3.88 avg rating — 222 ratings
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Boobies, Boojums And Snarks: The Ceramic Curiosities Of The Martin Brothers, 1880-1914
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Badass: The Birth of a Legend: Spine-Crushing Tales of the Most Merciless Gods, Monsters, Heroes, Villains, and Mythical Creatures Ever Envisioned
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3.90 avg rating — 595 ratings
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Mysteries: An Investigation into the Occult, the Paranormal and the Supernatural
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4.09 avg rating — 454 ratings
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Halloween and Other Festivals of Death and Life
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3.66 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Realizing the Witch: Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible
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4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Scottish Ghost Stories
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3.43 avg rating — 315 ratings
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On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears
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3.64 avg rating — 870 ratings
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The Hallowed Eve: Dimensions of Culture in a Calendar Festival in Northern Ireland
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4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Origins of the Literary Vampire
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th
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4.52 avg rating — 797 ratings
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A Modern Look at Monsters
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2.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Real Monsters, Gruesome Critters, and Beasts from the Darkside
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3.54 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Images of Death in Mexican Prints
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4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Graveyard Groove: The Haunted History of Monster Music from Monster MASH to Horror Punk
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4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Real Vampires, Night Stalkers and Creatures from the Darkside
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3.32 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Charles Waterton (1782 - 1865) and His Eccentric Taxidermy
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Lady and Her Monsters
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3.52 avg rating — 1,243 ratings
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Real Ghost Stories
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3.81 avg rating — 57 ratings
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O Let Us Howle Some Heavy Note: Music for Witches, the Melancholic, and the Mad on the Seventeenth-Century English Stage
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Monsters: A Bestiary of Devils, Demons, Vampires, Werewolves, and Other Magical Creatures
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3.77 avg rating — 515 ratings
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Shadow World: True Encounters with Beings from the Darkside
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3.76 avg rating — 46 ratings
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When the Dead Rise: Narratives of the Revenant, from the Middle Ages to the Present Day
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Zombies!: An Illustrated History of the Undead
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3.93 avg rating — 171 ratings
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Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps
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3.96 avg rating — 165 ratings
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Sideshow Alley: Infamy, the Macabre & the Portrait
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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John Carpenter, The Prince of Darkness: An Exclusive Interview with the Director of 'Halloween' and 'The Thing'
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3.90 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Real Ghost Stories: Haunting Encounters Told by Real People
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3.77 avg rating — 137 ratings
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Growing Up with Monsters
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Things in the Basement: A History of Halloween Horrors
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2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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American Monsters: A History of Monster Lore, Legends, and Sightings in America
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3.46 avg rating — 709 ratings
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Creatures of the Night That We Loved So Well: TV Horror Hosts of Southern California
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Monster Mash: The Creepy, Kooky Monster Craze in America 1957-1972
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4.28 avg rating — 92 ratings
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50 Real American Ghost Stories
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3.29 avg rating — 245 ratings
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Tokyo Cinegraphix One: Horror and Exploitation: 100 Film Posters from Japan
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4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Swampmen: Muck-Monsters of the Comics
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 22 ratings
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"A Hideous Bit of Morbidity": An Anthology of Horror Criticism from the Enlightenment to World War I
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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A History of Horror
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3.25 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Haunted Empire: Gothic and the Russian Imperial Uncanny
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Blue Men and River Monsters: Folklore of the North
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3.38 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Hans Holzer's Haunted America
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3.91 avg rating — 53 ratings
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A Strange Report of Sixe Most Notorious Witches, Who by Their Divelish Practises Murdered Above the Number of the Foure Hundred Small Children, Besi
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Wes Craven: The Man and his Nightmares
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3.79 avg rating — 192 ratings
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Monsters Among Us : an exploration of otherworldly bigfoots, wolfmen, portals, phantoms, and odd phenomena
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3.62 avg rating — 476 ratings
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Into the Strange
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3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Haunted Air: Anonymous Halloween photographs from c. 1875–1955
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4.48 avg rating — 252 ratings
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October Horror: Musings on Horror Movies
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3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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