Uncanny Bodies: The Coming of Sound Film and the Origins of the Horror Genre
By: Robert Spadoni
3.55
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In 1931 Universal Pictures released Dracula and Frankenstein, two films that inaugurated the horror…
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1. The Woman in White
By: Wilkie Collins , Matthew Sweet
4.01
Format: 672 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: Alternate covers can be found here and here. 'In one moment, every drop of blood… read more
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"I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!"-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"... our endurance must end, and our resistance begin, to-day."-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"You don’t have to speak at all— I know what you’d say… - Laura"-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody."-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
2. The Great War and Modern Memory
By: Paul Fussell
4.13
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The year 2000 marks the 25th anniversary of one of the most original and gripping volumes ever writ… read more
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"Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence."-Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory
"The implicit optimism of the [field service post card] is worth noting—the way it offers no provision for transmitting news like “I have lost my left leg"-Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory
"Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends."-Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory
3. Les Fleurs du Mal
By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard
4.20
Format: 365 pages, Paperback
Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more
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"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"I am the vampire at my own veins."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
4. Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body
By: Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
3.87
Format: 411 pages, Paperback
Giants. Midgets. Tribal non-Westerners. The very fat. The very thin. Hermaphrodites. Conjoined twin… read more
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5. Rosemary's Baby
By: Ira Levin
3.56
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse, an ordinary young couple, settle into a New York City apartment, unawar… read more
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6. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?" Sopho… read more
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7. Waiting for Godot
By: Samuel Beckett
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more
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8. Psycho
By: Robert Bloch
4.00
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
It was a dark and stormy night when Mary Crane glimpsed the unlit neon sign announcing the vacancy … read more
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9. 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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- horror
10. Doctor Sleep
By: Stephen King
3.91
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Sh… read more
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11. We'll Always Have Casablanca: The Legend and Afterlife of Hollywood's Most Beloved Film
By: Noah Isenberg
4.00
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Casablancawas first released in 1942, just two weeks after the city of Casablanca itself surrendere… read more
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12. Rhinocéros
By: Eugène Ionesco , None
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Tous les chats sont mortels. Socrate est mortel. Donc Socrate est un chat." Tout langage stereotyp… read more
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13. The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film
By: Barry Keith Grant
3.87
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
1. When the Woman Looks. Linda Williams. 2. Horror and the Monstrous Feminine: an imaginary abjecti… read more
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14. The Cinema of Isolation: A History of Physical Disability in the Movies
By: None
4.20
Format: 141 pages, Paperback
Filmmakers have often encouraged us to regard people with physical disabilities in terms of pity, a… read more
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15. Dubliners
By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more
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16. Cujo
By: Stephen King
3.79
Format: 432 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Durante toda su vida Cujo fue un buen perro, un San Bernardo grandote, pacífico, juguetón y amante … read more
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"The monster nevers dies."-Stephen King, Cujo
"There is no bad time for good news."-Stephen King, Cujo
"No hago más que percibirle... sentirle... en todos los rincones."-Stephen King, Cujo
"Aspiraba el olor de la locura en un viento que aún no había llegado."-Stephen King, Cujo
17. 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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18. A House with Good Bones
By: T. Kingfisher
3.69
Format: 247 pages, Hardcover
A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones explor… read more
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"Like many family dynamics, it didn't have to be healthy, it just had to work."-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones
"He's got an alibi. People with alibis in the first half of the show are always suspicious."-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones
"I could research it. I am a champion researcher. It's why they pay me the meager academic bucks."-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones
"I understood Grand Mae then, I think. I could not pity the adult she had become, but I could pity the girl she had been."-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones
19. The Salt Grows Heavy
By: Cassandra Khaw
3.59
Format: 106 pages, Hardcover
From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewi… read more
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"And you shall know her by the trail of dead"-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy
"There is nothing wrong with being a monster."-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy
"A thousand mythologies contributed to my conception."-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy
"The truth liberates; it cannot cripple or maul, cannot injure, not unless one declares themselves its apostate."-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy
20. The Death of Jane Lawrence
By: Caitlin Starling
3.19
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Practical, unassuming Jane Shoringfield has done the calculations, and decided that the most secure… read more
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21. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
By: Nikole Hannah-Jones
4.62
Format: 590 pages, Hardcover
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a revealing vision of the American past and present. … read more
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22. 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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"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
23. Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries
By: Rick Emerson
3.96
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
Two teens. Two diaries. Two social panics. One incredible fraud. In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvente… read more
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24. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
By: Ntozake Shange
4.28
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In celebration of its highly anticipated Broadway revival, Ntozake Shange’s classic, award-winning … read more
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"What I want and I wanted to be unforgettable."-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
"i done forgot all abt words aint got no definitions"-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
"Through my tears 1 found god in myself and I loved her fiercely"."-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
"And this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide, but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows."-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
25. Hideous Progeny: Disability, Eugenics, and Classic Horror Cinema (Film and Culture Series)
By: Angela M. Smith
4.23
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Twisted bodies, deformed faces, aberrant behavior, and abnormal desires characterized the hideous c… read more
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26. Disability, Literature, Genre: Representation and Affect in Contemporary Fiction
By: Ria Cheyne
4.31
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Examining the intersection of disability and genre in popular works of horror, crime, science ficti… read more
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27. Uncanny Bodies: The Coming of Sound Film and the Origins of the Horror Genre
By: Robert Spadoni
3.55
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In 1931 Universal Pictures released Dracula and Frankenstein, two films that inaugurated the horror… read more
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28. Media, Performative Identity, and the New American Freak Show
By: Jessica L. Williams
4.50
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
This book traces how the American freak show has re-emerged in new visual forms in the 21st century… read more
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29. Fear and Nature: Ecohorror Studies in the Anthropocene (AnthropoScene: The SLSA Book Series)
By: Christy Tidwell
4.50
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
Ecohorror represents human fears about the natural world--killer plants and animals, catastrophic w… read more
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