5 best-selling biography books like The Soul of Wes Craven by Joseph Maddrey

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The Soul of Wes Craven

By: Joseph Maddrey

4.70

Format: 515 pages, Kindle Edition

You know him as the Sultan of Slash, the Guru of Gore, and the Father of Freddy. Now get to know th…

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1. The Friedkin Connection: A Memoir

By: William Friedkin

4.13

Format: 497 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited memoir from the Academy Award–winning director of such legendary films as The Fren… read more

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  • biography
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2. Black House (The Talisman, #2)

By: Stephen King , Peter Straub

3.93

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer travelled to a parallel universe called The Territories t… read more

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  • horror
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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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  • horror
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4. Joyride

By: Jack Ketchum

3.37

Format: None pages, Paperback

Hoping to escape from her abusive ex-husband, a woman and her lover successfully carry out their pl… read more

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  • horror
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5. The Long Walk

By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman

4.08

Format: 370 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Against the wishes of his mother, sixteen-year-old Ray Garraty is about to compete in the annual gr… read more

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"Love is a fake!"

-Stephen King, The Long Walk

"Another time, another place."

-Stephen King, The Long Walk

"Better to be dirty than dead."

-Stephen King, The Long Walk

"His eyes were as blank and bright as doorknobs."

-Stephen King, The Long Walk

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6. ’Salem’s Lot

By: Stephen King

4.10

Format: 483 pages, Paperback

Librarian's Note: Alternate-cover edition for ISBN 0450031063 Thousands of miles away from the s… read more

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  • horror
"Sour cream! He had tasted it once and liked to puke."

-Stephen King, ’Salem’s Lot

"If a man dethrones God in his heart, Satan must ascend to His position."

-Stephen King, ’Salem’s Lot

"To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex."

-Stephen King, ’Salem’s Lot

"There were fourteen steps exactly fourteen. But the top one was smaller, out of proportion, as if it had been added to avoid the evil number."

-Stephen King, ’Salem’s Lot

7. Chain Saw Confidential: How We Made the World's Most Notorious Horror Movie

By: Gunnar Hansen

3.37

Format: 414 pages, Hardcover

When The Texas Chain Saw Massacrefirst hit movie screens in 1974 it was both reviled and championed… read more

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8. 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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  • 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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9. The Pram

By: Joe Hill

3.77

Format: 58 pages, Kindle Edition

A husband’s obsessive desire for a child leads to an unexpected manifestation of his yearning in a … read more

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  • horror
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10. 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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  • biography
"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

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

11. 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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  • horror
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12. Ankle Snatcher

By: Grady Hendrix

3.74

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

Obey the rules. It’s the only way to survive the night in a short story about what hides in the dar… read more

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  • horror
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13. The Nineties

By: Chuck Klosterman

3.87

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

The Nineties: a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about th… read more

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"The nineties were a fertile period for the self-indulgent genius."

-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties

"In the nineties, doing nothing on purpose was a valid option, and a specific brand of cool became more important than almost anything else. The key to that coolness was disinterest in conventional su…"

-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties

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14. The Stand

By: Stephen King

4.35

Format: None pages, Audiobook

First came the days of the plague. Then came the dreams. Dark dreams that warned of the coming of t… read more

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  • horror
"A person can't change all at once."

-Stephen King, The Stand

"HEY, BOBBY TERRY, YOU SCROOOOWED IT UP!"

-Stephen King, The Stand

"Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up."

-Stephen King, The Stand

"His name is Legion. He is the king of nowhere."

-Stephen King, The Stand

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15. Big Bad

By: Chandler Baker

3.77

Format: 59 pages, Kindle Edition

For a family trying to make an isolated farmhouse into a home, fear and rage are getting harder to … read more

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  • horror
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16. Best of Luck

By: Jason Mott

3.77

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

Did you ever hear the one about the man with a string of bad luck? The worst is still to come in a … read more

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  • horror
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17. In Bloom

By: Paul Tremblay

3.08

Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition

There’s something in the water in this hallucinatory short story by Paul Tremblay, bestselling auth… read more

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  • horror
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18. It Waits in the Woods

By: Josh Malerman

3.72

Format: 52 pages, Kindle Edition

Some chilling campfire tales ring too true to ignore. For one young woman, an urban legend calls he… read more

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  • horror
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19. Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever

By: Matt Singer

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten To… read more

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  • biography
Cover of Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries by Rick Emerson

20. 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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  • biography
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21. 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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Cover of Halloween Ends: The Official Movie Novelization by Paul Brad Logan

22. Halloween Ends: The Official Movie Novelization

By: Paul Brad Logan

4.02

Format: 364 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The official novelization of the highly anticipated finale of the iconic Halloween horror franchise… read more

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  • horror
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23. 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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  • horror
Cover of Reign of Chucky: The True Hollywood Story of a Not So Good Guy by Dustin McNeill

24. Reign of Chucky: The True Hollywood Story of a Not So Good Guy

By: Dustin McNeill

4.47

Format: 755 pages, Kindle Edition

From the authors who brought you TAKING SHAPE comes REIGN OF CHUCKY, an exhaustive new look at the … read more

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  • horror
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25. The Soul of Wes Craven

By: Joseph Maddrey

4.70

Format: 515 pages, Kindle Edition

You know him as the Sultan of Slash, the Guru of Gore, and the Father of Freddy. Now get to know th… read more

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  • biography
  • horror
Cover of House of Rejects: The Making of Rob Zombie's Firefly Trilogy by Dustin McNeill

26. House of Rejects: The Making of Rob Zombie's Firefly Trilogy

By: Dustin McNeill

4.25

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

From Dustin McNeill, co-author of TAKING SHAPE and REIGN OF CHUCKY, comes HOUSE OF REJECTS, an exha… read more

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Cover of Millennial Nasties: Analyzing a Decade of Brutal Horror Film Violence (Encyclopocalypse Originals) by Ariel Powers-Schaub

27. Millennial Nasties: Analyzing a Decade of Brutal Horror Film Violence (Encyclopocalypse Originals)

By: Ariel Powers-Schaub

4.15

Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition

Torture porn, shock-for-shock’s sake, violence that doesn’t serve the plot, and characters you hate… read more

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  • horror

20 must-read horror books like The Soul of Wes Craven by Joseph Maddrey

Transform Your Habits

Black House (The Talisman, #2)

Stephen King , Peter Straub

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film

Carol J. Clover

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Joyride

Jack Ketchum

3.37

Transform Your Habits

The Long Walk

Stephen King , Richard Bachman

4.08

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Transform Your Habits

Jaws

Peter Benchley

3.00

Jerusalem's Lot

Stephen King

3.74

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

Stephen Graham Jones

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Fever House (Fever House, #1)

Keith Rosson

4.03

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