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Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,080 ratings — published 1992
The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,065 ratings — published 1993
In the Dust of This Planet (Horror of Philosophy, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,853 ratings — published 2011
House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,348 ratings — published 2012
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,938 ratings — published 1980
The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,488 ratings — published 1993
Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 320 ratings — published 1995
Danse Macabre (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.67 — 30,980 ratings — published 1981
The Weird and the Eerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,163 ratings — published 2016
Tentacles Longer Than Night (Horror of Philosophy, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 364 ratings — published 2015
Starry Speculative Corpse (Horror of Philosophy, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.89 — 540 ratings — published 2015
The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film (Texas Film Studies Series)
by (shelved 3 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 349 ratings — published 1996
The Philosophy of Horror (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.76 — 687 ratings — published 1990
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,960 ratings — published 2022
Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,633 ratings — published 2011
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.34 — 314,080 ratings — published 2000
The Contested Castle: Gothic Novels and the Subversion of Domestic Ideology (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 57 ratings — published 1989
Blue Light of the Screen: On Horror, Ghosts, and God (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.90 — 174 ratings — published 2020
Monster Theory: Reading Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.91 — 301 ratings — published 1996
The Spectacle of the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.91 — 178 ratings — published 2014
Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.93 — 880 ratings — published 2024
The Uncanny (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,805 ratings — published 1919
Shirley Jackson's American Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.42 — 53 ratings — published 2003
Dead Funny: The Humor of American Horror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 7 ratings — published
Dreadful Pleasures: An Anatomy of Modern Horror (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.42 — 57 ratings — published 1985
Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 21,166 ratings — published 1973
Gothic: Transmutations of Horror in Late Twentieth Century Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.56 — 34 ratings — published 1997
On Writing Horror: A Handbook by the Horror Writers Association (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,076 ratings — published 1997
Screaming for Pleasure: How Horror Makes You Happy and Healthy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 164 ratings — published
A Critical History and Filmography of Toho's Godzilla® Series (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.46 — 188 ratings — published 1997
Monsters of the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 254 ratings — published 1994
Dark Directions: Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the Modern Horror Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.80 — 44 ratings — published 2012
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue: The Evolution of the American Horror Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.73 — 55 ratings — published 2004
The Hellbound Heart (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 67,038 ratings — published 1986
Classic Monsters Unleashed (Unleashed Series)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.74 — 454 ratings — published 2022
Dark Carnivals: Modern Horrors and the Origins of American Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.83 — 300 ratings — published 2022
The Forbidden Body (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 18 ratings — published
Global Corpse Politics: The Obscenity Taboo (Cambridge Studies in International Relations)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.00 — 2 ratings — published
Haunted Property: Slavery and the Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.83 — 6 ratings — published
Possessed Women, Haunted States: Cultural Tensions in Exorcism Cinema (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 2.75 — 4 ratings — published 2016
Satanic Feminism: Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 167 ratings — published 2014
Race, Oppression and the Zombie: Essays on Cross-Cultural Appropriations of the Caribbean Tradition (Contributions to Zombie Studies)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 27 ratings — published 2011
Hideous Progeny: Disability, Eugenics, and Classic Horror Cinema (Film and Culture Series)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 43 ratings — published 2011
Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.89 — 472 ratings — published 2011
Notes on Blood Meridian (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 575 ratings — published 2008
The Hammer and the Flute: Women, Power, and Spirit Possession (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.64 — 11 ratings — published 2005
Film/Genre (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.83 — 180 ratings — published 1998
The Devils of Loudun (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,517 ratings — published 1952
Monsters and Mad Scientists: A Cultural History of the Horror Movie (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 3.67 — 39 ratings — published 1989
Cronenberg on Cronenberg (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as horror-theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 860 ratings — published 1992
