5 best-selling nonfiction books like Folk Horror Revival: Field Studies by Andy Paciorek

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Folk Horror Revival: Field Studies

By: Andy Paciorek

4.07

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

Featuring essays and interviews by many great cinematic, musical, artistic and literary talents, Fo…

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1. Discovering Scarfolk

By: Richard Littler

4.09

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Scarfolk is a town in north-west England that did not progress beyond 1979. Instead, the entire dec… read more

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  • art
  • horror
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2. Heart-Shaped Box

By: Joe Hill

3.84

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

An aging death-metal rock god, Judas Coyne, is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals… read more

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  • horror
"The dead pull the living down."

-Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box

"You're a sympathetic sonofabitch, you know that?". "You want sympathy, go fuck James Taylor."

-Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box

"All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together."

-Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box

"Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst."

-Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box

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3. Night Film

By: Marisha Pessl

3.78

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

On a damp October night, 24-year-old Ashley Cordova is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in lowe… read more

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  • horror
"Moe was a triple threat."

-Marisha Pessl, Night Film

"Freak the ferocious out."

-Marisha Pessl, Night Film

"Sovereign. Deadly. Perfect."

-Marisha Pessl, Night Film

" Everyone smiles for a photograph. "

-Marisha Pessl, Night Film

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4. The Complete Persepolis

By: Marjane Satrapi , Anjali Singh , Mattias Ripa , Blake Ferris

4.16

Format: 331 pages,

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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5. Come Closer

By: Sara Gran

3.65

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that's replaced by obscene i… read more

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  • horror
"What we think is impossible happens all the time."

-Sara Gran, Come Closer

"In January I had a proposal due to my boss, Leon Fields, on a new project."

-Sara Gran, Come Closer

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6. The Woman in Black

By: Susan Hill , John Lawrence

3.85

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

What real reader does not yearn, somewhere in the recesses of his or her heart, for a really litera… read more

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  • horror
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7. The Ruins

By: Scott Smith

3.68

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

Trapped in the Mexican jungle, a group of friends stumble upon a creeping horror unlike anything th… read more

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  • horror
"The Greek pissed and pissed and pissed."

-Scott Smith, The Ruins

8. The Lathe of Heaven

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.48

Format: 334 pages,

George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being -- for bet… read more

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9. The Ritual

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.59

Format: 418 pages, Paperback

Four old university friends reunite for a hiking trip in the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic … read more

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  • horror
"For Anne and our cub, for making me and my life less beastly"

-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual

"He just existed before it and within the terrible presence that filled the cramped space of the attic."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual

"It had not hurt his hands at all and the sudden release of energy, twinned with Dom's fall, gave him a sudden lunatic rush of euphoria."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual

"From the very core of each of them, their ancestors seemed to cry out in inarticulate voices. right then, they screamed in alarm from times before symbols and language could depict such things that h…"

-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual

10. Dark Entries

By: Robert Aickman

3.36

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Sewn signatures, printed on 110gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Biddles in bergundy wibalin cloth … read more

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11. The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)

By: Thomas Harris

4.11

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

There's a killer on the loose who knows that beauty is only skin deep, and a trainee investigator w… read more

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12. 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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13. Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)

By: Thomas Harris

4.25

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Will Graham stands in a silent, empty house communing with a killer. An FBI instructor with a gift … read more

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14. Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange

By: Adam Scovell

4.07

Format: 154 pages,

Interest in the ancient, the occult, and the "wyrd" is on the rise. The furrows of Robin Hardy (The… read more

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15. Cinema Speculation

By: Quentin Tarantino

4.06

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more

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  • art
  • history
  • film
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

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16. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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17. The Reddening

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.62

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

One million years of evolution didn't change our nature. Nor did it bury the horrors predating civi… read more

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's The Reddening book and Andy Paciorek's Folk Horror Revival: Field Studies

  • folklore
  • horror
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18. 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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  • horror
Cover of Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey

19. Just Like Home

By: Sarah Gailey

3.35

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

“Come home.” Vera’s mother called and Vera obeyed. In spite of their long estrangement, in spite of… read more

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  • horror
"Here is something that she controls, here is something that responds to her with the kind of frantic immediacy she always wanted from the world"

-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home

"Tenderness was a foreign, forgotten thing that she hadn't encountered since before everything went wrong. She did not want it. Not now. Not from him."

-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home

"Is one possible without the other? I think you have to know someone in order to truly love them, and you have to love someone in order to really hate them."

-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home

"I think you have to know someone in order to truly love them, and you have to love someone in order to really hate them. There’s the thin hate we have for strangers. (...) And then there’s the thick,…"

-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home

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20. Folk Horror Revival: Field Studies

By: Andy Paciorek

4.07

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

Featuring essays and interviews by many great cinematic, musical, artistic and literary talents, Fo… read more

Similar categories in Andy Paciorek's Folk Horror Revival: Field Studies book and Andy Paciorek's Folk Horror Revival: Field Studies

  • art
  • history
  • film
  • research
  • anthologies
  • folklore
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • reference
  • horror
Cover of So Deadly, So Perverse: Volume 2: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films Vol. 2 1974-2013 by Troy Howarth

21. So Deadly, So Perverse: Volume 2: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films Vol. 2 1974-2013

By: Troy Howarth

4.22

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

The giallo—an Italian brand of thriller known for its stylish and lurid excesses—got its start in t… read more

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  • film
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22. So Deadly, So Perverse: Giallo-Style Films From Around the World, Vol. 3

By: Troy Howarth

4.22

Format: 286 pages, Paperback

The giallo --a specifically Italian brand of lurid thriller--emerged in the 1960s and became a comm… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • film

12 Top horror books like Folk Horror Revival: Field Studies by Andy Paciorek

Transform Your Habits

Discovering Scarfolk

Richard Littler

4.09

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Heart-Shaped Box

Joe Hill

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Night Film

Marisha Pessl

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Come Closer

Sara Gran

3.65

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The Haunted Forest Tour

James A. Moore , Jeff Strand

3.69

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The Haar

David Sodergren

4.17

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Boys in the Valley

Philip Fracassi

4.18

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Episode Thirteen

Craig DiLouie

3.53

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