6 must-read pop culture books like The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar by Robin R. Means Coleman

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The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar

By: Robin R. Means Coleman

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A definitive and surprising exploration of the history of Black horror films, after the rising succ…

If you liked the pop culture plot in The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar by Robin R. Means Coleman , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror by Jason Zinoman

1. Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror

By: Jason Zinoman

3.86

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Much has been written about the storied New Hollywood of the 1970s, but at the same time that Steve… read more

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  • history
  • pop culture
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • horror
  • audiobook
Cover of Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film by Carol J. Clover

2. 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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  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • film
  • horror
Cover of The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3) by Stephen Graham Jones

3. The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

By: Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

The final installment in the most lauded trilogy in the history of horror literature It’s been f… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • horror
"I used to be all about the final girl standing on top of a pile of the dead at the end of the movie, her face dripping blood, her chest heaving, her eyes fierce. Now I’m all about holding the door of…"

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

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4. Camp Damascus

By: Chuck Tingle

3.94

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

A searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • horror
"Then again, does it really matter if you're just evil, as opposed to over-the-top cartoonishly evil?"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

"That acknowledgement could arrive after several decades, or it could happen tonight, but the time will come. Eventually, I'll have to fully contend with this simple fact: the love I was promised was …"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

Cover of Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology by Shane Hawk

5. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

By: Shane Hawk

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • horror
Cover of Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2) by Stephen Graham Jones

6. Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2)

By: Stephen Graham Jones

4.07

Format: 457 pages, Hardcover

Jade returns to the rural lake town of Proofrock the same day as convicted Indigenous serial killer… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • horror
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7. Mister Magic

By: Kiersten White

3.59

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

Who is Mister Magic? Former child stars reunite to uncover the tragedy that ended their show—and di… read more

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  • adult
  • audiobook
"Magic never forgets the taste of your friendship."

-Kiersten White, Mister Magic

"This version of him isn't perfect. None of them are. New isn't the same as perfect. Growing up isn't inherently loss, it's just change."

-Kiersten White, Mister Magic

"I think you've told me thank you more in the last day than anyone else has in years. It's like--when there's a stack of dishes, if my husband actually does them , I tell him thank you. But when I do …"

-Kiersten White, Mister Magic

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8. This Wretched Valley

By: Jenny Kiefer

3.33

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Four ambitious climbers hike into the Kentucky wilderness. Seven months later, three mangled bodies… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • horror
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9. Silver Nitrate

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.61

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic come… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • horror
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10. Out There Screaming

By: Jordan Peele

3.79

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, c… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • horror
"Jesus better keep his little bitch mouth shut"

-Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming

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11. The Exorcist Legacy: 50 Years of Fear

By: Nat Segaloff

3.74

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

Since 1973, The Exorcist and its progeny have scared and inspired half a century of filmgoers. Now,… read more

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  • history
  • pop culture
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • horror
  • audiobook
Cover of It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror by Joe Vallese

12. 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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  • film
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears by Michael        Schulman

13. Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears

By: Michael Schulman

4.09

Format: 589 pages, Hardcover

The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively histor… read more

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  • history
  • pop culture
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. Horror Movie

By: Paul Tremblay

3.45

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • horror
Cover of 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered by Sadie Hartmann

15. 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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  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • horror
"I love a good story about everyone dying."

-Sadie Hartmann, 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered

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16. Burn the Negative

By: Josh Winning

3.38

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

In this incendiary mash-up of horror and suspense, a notorious slasher film is remade…and the curse… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • horror
Cover of Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle

17. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • horror
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

Cover of Dark Carnivals: Modern Horrors and the Origins of American Empire by W. Scott Poole

18. Dark Carnivals: Modern Horrors and the Origins of American Empire

By: W. Scott Poole

3.80

Format: 425 pages, Hardcover

From Invasion of the Body Snatchers to Get Out, Dark Carnivals tells the panoramic story of the fil… read more

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  • history
  • pop culture
  • film
  • nonfiction
  • horror
Cover of The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar by Robin R. Means Coleman

19. The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar

By: Robin R. Means Coleman

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A definitive and surprising exploration of the history of Black horror films, after the rising succ… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • pop culture
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Nightmare Fuel: The Science of Horror Films by Nina Nesseth

20. 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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  • history
  • pop culture
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones

21. I Was a Teenage Slasher

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.68

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a classic slasher story wi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • horror

17 Top adult books like The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar by Robin R. Means Coleman

Transform Your Habits

The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Camp Damascus

Chuck Tingle

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

Shane Hawk

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2)

Stephen Graham Jones

4.07

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18 must-read adult books like It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror by Joe Vallese

Transform Your Habits

Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

Huw Lemmey

3.55

Transform Your Habits

Camp Damascus

Chuck Tingle

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

Shane Hawk

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Monstrilio

Gerardo Sámano Córdova

4.14

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