Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
By: Lisa Kröger
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
Meet the women writers who defied convention to craft some of literature’s strangest tales, from Fr…
Want to Read $ 11.99"What do queer activism and vampires have in common? Turns out, a lot."-Lisa Kröger, Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
"What do queer activism and vampires have in common? Turns out, a lot."-Lisa Kröger, Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
"Perhaps the weirdest tale is how we’ve managed to forget the women who created such amazing stories."-Lisa Kröger, Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
"Perhaps the weirdest tale is how we’ve managed to forget the women who created such amazing stories."-Lisa Kröger, Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
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1. Human Sacrifice: A Shocking Expose of Ritual Killings Worldwide
By: Jimmy Lee Shreeve
3.04
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Human sacrifice still goes on uncomfortably close to home-cases have been found in the U.S., Europe… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- history
- horror
2. House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films
By: Kier-la Janisse
4.44
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
House of Psychotic Women is an autobiographical exploration of female neurosis in horror and exploi… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- biography
- horror
"The truth, and the threat it poses, can be too overwhelming to bear, and for many women in the aftermath of the sexual revolution, the truth was that their experiences were being dismissed by the men…"-Kier-la Janisse, House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films
3. Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film
By: Carol J. Clover
3.91
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Do the pleasures of horror movies really begin and end in sadism? So the public discussion of film … read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- horror
4. The Open Door
By: Mrs. Oliphant
3.80
Format: None pages,
With a sense of mystery and suspense pervading the whole narrative, this is a very unusual work. Du… read more
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- horror
5. The White People and Other Weird Stories
By: Guillermo del Toro , S.T. Joshi , Arthur Machen
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
Machen's weird tales of the creepy and fantastic finally come to Penguin Classics. With an introduc… read more
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6. Ghostly Tales: Spine-Chilling Stories of the Victorian Age
By: Chronicle Books
3.80
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
A vengeful phantom lurks in a country graveyard. A whaling crew becomes trapped on a haunted ship. … read more
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7. Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
By: Colin Dickey
3.74
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An intellectual feast for fans of offbeat history, Ghostland takes readers on a road trip through… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- history
- horror
"Surely ghosts will follow wherever there is bad record keeping"-Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
"The dead are watching, whether or not we choose to listen to their stories."-Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
"Our brains are hardwired to think in terms of place and to associate psychic value or meaning to the places we inhabit."-Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
"A ghost story’s reduction of a complex moment or the history of building into a series of cliches is reproduced in beautifully staged photos that fetishize the past without truly representing it. “Ru…"-Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
8. Paperbacks from Hell: A History of Horror Fiction from the '70s and '80s
By: Grady Hendrix
4.00
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Take a tour through the horror paperback novels of the 1970s and '80s . . . if you dare. Page throu… read more
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9. Batwoman by Greg Rucka and J.H. Williams III
By: Greg Rucka , None
3.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
Eisner Award winning authors Greg Rucka and J.H. Williams III team up to show a new side of Gotham … read more
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10. Imprisoned with the Pharaohs
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.07
Format: None pages, ebook
H. P. Lovecraft ranks amongst the most important speculative fiction writers of all time. First pub… read more
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11. The Night Cyclist
By: Stephen Graham Jones
3.88
Format: None pages, ebook
"The Night Cyclist" by Stephen Graham Jones is a horror novelette about a middle-aged chef whose ni… read more
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12. Diavola
By: Jennifer Marie Thorne
3.95
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothi… read more
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- gothic
- audiobook
- horror
13. Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science
By: Erika Engelhaupt
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Science reporter Erika Engelhaupt investigates the gross, strange, and morbid absurdities of our bo… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"This kind of scientific boldness is something the world could use more of. All too often, we’re hemmed in by our fears and our sense of propriety. Some subjects simply aren’t discussed, or aren’t tak…"-Erika Engelhaupt, Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science
14. The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
By: Mallory O'Meara
3.98
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The Lady from the Black Lagoon uncovers the life and work of Milicent Patrick—one of Disney’s first… read more
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- history
- biography
- feminism
- nonfiction
- horror
- audiobook
"Having a new tattoo really sucks,"-Mallory O'Meara, The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
"To the privileged, equality feels like oppression"-Mallory O'Meara, The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
"One hundred percent of the top American films of 1954, the year Creature from the Black Lagoon was released, were directed by men. Ninety-six percent of the top American films for 2016, the year I st…"-Mallory O'Meara, The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
"Milicent Patrick’s final resting place is in every single Creature from the Black Lagoon T-shirt, every Metaluna Mutant toy, every VHS tape of Fantasia, every DVD of The Shape of Water. It’s on the d…"-Mallory O'Meara, The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
15. The United States of Cryptids: A Tour of American Myths and Monsters
By: J.W. Ocker
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Meet the monsters in our midst, from bigfoot to Mothman and beyond! Welcome to the United States… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- history
- horror
16. It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
By: Joe Vallese
4.18
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
Through the lens of horror—from "Halloween" to "Hereditary"—queer and trans writers consider the fi… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- horror
"Androgyny doesn't look a certain way, though gender is ingrained in society such that liberal readings are applied to everyone, sprinkling gender on everything from haircuts to careers to alcoholic b…"-Joe Vallese, It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
17. Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
By: Anna Bogutskaya
3.72
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
How bitches, trainwrecks, shrews, and crazy women have taken over pop culture and liberated women f… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"All high school experiences are inherently dramatic because they are being experienced for the first time."-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
"Unlikeable" is code. It's code for "fair game." If a woman in unlikable, she is stepping out of bounds. Which makes it fair game to decimate her socially, emotionally, or physically. Likeability give…"-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
"In 2015, a study about jury deliberation bias conducted at Arizona State University found that "when men expressed their opinion with anger, participants rated them as more credible, which made them …"-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
"When men get angry onscreen, they're angry at the system. When women are angry onscreen, they're angry at someone. Women are not allowed to be angry at the system, because that would be a tacit accep…"-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
18. Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
By: Megan Rosenbloom
4.01
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest othe… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- horror
- books about books
- audiobook
"Human skin books—mostly made by nineteenth-century doctor bibliophiles—are the only books that are controversial not for the ideas they contain but for the physical makeup of the object itself."-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
"Anthropodermic books tell a complicated and uncomfortable take about the development of clinical medicine and the doctoring class, and the worst of what can come from the collision of acquisitiveness…"-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
"Many confirmed human skin books didn’t begin their print life in this controversial binding but were rebound by collectors, usually doctors who took the oldest or rarest texts in their private collec…"-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
"No wonder the public persists in connecting the idea of human skin books with Nazis. It's easier to believe that objects of human skin are made by monsters like Nazis and serial killers, and not the …"-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
19. 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered
By: Sadie Hartmann
4.43
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
The Ultimate List of Must-Read Horror! Curious readers and fans of monsters and the macabre, get re… read more
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- nonfiction
- books about books
- horror
"I love a good story about everyone dying."-Sadie Hartmann, 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered
20. Children of the Fang and Other Genealogies
By: John Langan
4.03
Format: 378 pages, Paperback
John Langan, author of the Bram Stoker Award-winning novel The Fisherman, returns with a new book o… read more
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- horror
21. Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
By: Ruth Franklin
4.01
Format: 624 pages, Paperback
Shirley Jackson reveals the tumultuous life and inner darkness of the literary genius behind such c… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- writing
- horror
- womens
- books about books
- audiobook
"Constance and Merricat are indeed “two halves of the same person,"-Ruth Franklin, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
"Brown, they would later write, had taught them that the goal of reading and criticizing was "to know and understand, not to like or dislike, and the aim of writing was to get down what you wanted to …"-Ruth Franklin, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
"Every description is calculated for what it reveals, both about the character to whom it refers and the person whose attitude it represents ... As always in these descriptions, she has a knack for th…"-Ruth Franklin, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
"If one is bewildered and unhappy, why not show it, and why will not people explain and comfort? But instead—this pretense at calm satisfaction, where underneath there is all the seething restless des…"-Ruth Franklin, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
22. Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
By: Lisa Kröger
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
Meet the women writers who defied convention to craft some of literature’s strangest tales, from Fr… read more
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- gothic
- history
- biography
- feminism
- nonfiction
- writing
- horror
- womens
- books about books
- audiobook
"What do queer activism and vampires have in common? Turns out, a lot."-Lisa Kröger, Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
"Perhaps the weirdest tale is how we’ve managed to forget the women who created such amazing stories."-Lisa Kröger, Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
"Haunted house fictions play upon the complex fears and concerns about domestic issues that women have long grappled with."-Lisa Kröger, Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
"There seems to be an unspoken assumption that women aren't interested in horror and speculative fiction, despite ample evidence to the contrary."-Lisa Kröger, Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
23. You Play the Girl: And Other Vexing Stories That Tell Women Who They Are
By: Carina Chocano
3.88
Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition
As a kid in the 1970s and '80s, Carina Chocano was confused by the mixed messages all around her; m… read more
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- feminism
- womens
- nonfiction
"Sometimes, it seems like popular media exists primarily to set impossible standards and then to shame people who don't try their hardest to meet them."-Carina Chocano, You Play the Girl: And Other Vexing Stories That Tell Women Who They Are
"It [puberty] is not that you lose control of your body so much as that you lose control over the way your body is interpreted. Your body becomes an alien body, a question rather than a statement."-Carina Chocano, You Play the Girl: And Other Vexing Stories That Tell Women Who They Are
"Her remark laid bare not only the reality - not enough comic opportunities for women in Hollywood - but also the ideology that created and perpetuated that reality. It was right there in the sentence…"-Carina Chocano, You Play the Girl: And Other Vexing Stories That Tell Women Who They Are
24. Carry My Secret to Your Grave (Murder, She Wrote #2)
By: Stephanie Kuehn
3.79
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Small town murders. Big time thrills. The second installment in the suspenseful, modern u… read more
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25. Nightmare Fuel: The Science of Horror Films
By: Nina Nesseth
3.85
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Nightmare Fuel by Nina Nesseth is a pop-science look at fear, how and why horror films get under ou… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- history
- horror
26. Lies My Teacher Told Me: A Graphic Adaptation
By: James W. Loewen
4.33
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
At last! The long-awaited graphic version of the multi-million copy bestselling corrective to Ameri… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
27. I Know What I Saw: Modern-Day Encounters with Monsters of New Urban Legend and Ancient Lore
By: Linda S. Godfrey
3.26
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
Which came first--the monster or the myth? Journalist Linda Godfrey investigates present-day encoun… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- history
- horror
28. The Women of Weird Tales
By: Melanie R. Anderson
4.06
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
Launched in 1923, the pulp magazine Weird Tales quickly became one of the most important outlets fo… read more
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- gothic
- horror
29. The Assassin of Venice
By: Alyssa Palombo
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A Renaissance courtesan must choose between love and duty in this high stakes 16th-century mystery,… read more
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- audiobook
30. Women's Weird: Strange Stories by Women, 1890-1940
By: Melissa Edmundson
4.05
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
Early Weird fiction embraces the supernatural, horror, science fiction, fantasy and the Gothic, and… read more
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