10 must-read nonfiction books like We Don't Go Back: A Watcher's Guide to Folk Horror by Howard David Ingham

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We Don't Go Back: A Watcher's Guide to Folk Horror

By: Howard David Ingham

4.20

Format: 442 pages, Kindle Edition

Secret, strange, dark, impure and dissonant... Enter the haunted landscapes of folk horror, a world…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in We Don't Go Back: A Watcher's Guide to Folk Horror by Howard David Ingham , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier by Mark Frost

1. Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier

By: Mark Frost

3.89

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

The crucial sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Secret History of Twin Peaks, this novel b… read more

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  • film
  • horror
"A traveller learns more than a passenger."

-Mark Frost, Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier

"When a dark age comes, hold the light inside."

-Mark Frost, Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier

"This ‘gargantuan multidimensional clusterfuck."

-Mark Frost, Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier

"Pardon my French for a second, Chief, but what the fuck?"

-Mark Frost, Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier

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2. Wylding Hall

By: Elizabeth Hand

3.80

Format: 176 pages, ebook

When the young members of a British acid-folk band are compelled by their manager to record their u… read more

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  • horror
"But mostly I'm just respectful of old ways. I believe things for a reason, and in the old days they did things for a reason. And if you don't understand why—well, you might end up opening a few doors…"

-Elizabeth Hand, Wylding Hall

3. The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3)

By: Anne Rice

3.68

Format: 420 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found  In 1976, a uniquely seductive world of … read more

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4. The King in Yellow

By: Robert W. Chambers

3.55

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

One of the leading examples of Victorian-gothic horror, The King in Yellow is a collection of ten i… read more

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  • horror
"Selby never knew why, but he suddenly began to buy flowers."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"Strange in the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies But Stranger still is Lost Carcosa."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth..."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"No, he is not vicious, nor is he in the least demented. His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

5. Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History

By: Bill Schutt , None

4.32

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

For centuries scientists have written off cannibalism as a bizarre phenomenon with little biologica… read more

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6. 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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7. 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
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • criticism
"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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8. Saga, Volume 10

By: Brian K. Vaughan

4.31

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

At long last, Hazel and her star-crossed family are finally back, and they’ve made some new...frien… read more

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9. A Haunting on the Hill

By: Elizabeth Hand

3.35

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

From three-time Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy, and Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Hand come… read more

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  • horror
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10. Nothing But Blackened Teeth

By: Cassandra Khaw

2.66

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Cassandra Khaw's Nothing But Blackened Teeth is a gorgeously creepy haunted house tale, steeped in … read more

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  • horror
"Every religion is a one-way relationship."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

"The dead miss the sun. It's dark down there."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

"Media’s all about the gospel of the lone wolf, but the truth is we’re all just sheep."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

"apologies didn’t exonerate the sinner, only compelled graciousness from its recipient."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

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11. Novelist as a Vocation

By: Haruki Murakami

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author’s own novels. Haruki Mura… read more

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  • nonfiction
"writing novels is, to my way of thinking, basically a very uncool enterprise"

-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

"La experiencia nos enseña a los escritores lo duro que es seguir siendo escritor."

-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta"

-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta."

-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

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12. Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance

By: John Waters

3.30

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A hilariously filthy tale of sex, crime, and family dysfunction from the brilliantly twisted mind o… read more

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13. Cuddy

By: Benjamin Myers

4.33

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patr… read more

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"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"

-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy

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14. 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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  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • film
  • horror
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15. Starve Acre

By: Andrew Michael Hurley

3.71

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died sudden… read more

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  • horror
"What you go searching for and what you find aren't always the same."

-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre

"The will of Richard's father had been to ensure that his son was in no doubt that a church was merely a meeting place for the mentally ill, and that all who gathered there--priest and parishioners--w…"

-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre

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16. 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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  • folklore
  • nonfiction
  • horror
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17. Chouette

By: Claire Oshetsky

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating, provocative novel of motherhood in extremisTiny is pregnant. Her husband is deligh… read more

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  • horror
"We're the oldest love triangle in the world: mother, father, child."

-Claire Oshetsky, Chouette

"Maybe I resent you a little. Once this first small thought of maybe-resentment creeps in, it acts like a fast poison."

-Claire Oshetsky, Chouette

"Every day you wrench me toward a different world altogether: an older world, filled with wild, perfect creatures, singing in the dark."

-Claire Oshetsky, Chouette

"I prefer to speak in metaphor: That way, no logic can trap me, and no rule can bind me, and no fact can limit me or decide for me what’s possible."

-Claire Oshetsky, Chouette

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18. The Rest is History: The Official Book from the Makers of the Hit Podcast

By: Tom Holland

3.85

Format: 522 pages, Kindle Edition

Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys... there's a new history book in town. Fro… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Manningtree Witches by A.K. Blakemore

19. The Manningtree Witches

By: A.K. Blakemore

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Wolf Hall meets The Favourite in this beguiling debut novel that brilliantly brings to life the res… read more

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-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches

"I wish freely to embrace the deliciousness of sin.To sin with abandon is, after all, the only prerogative of the damned."

-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches

"I wish freely to embrace the deliciousness of sin. To sin with abandon is, after all, the only prerogative of the damned."

-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches

"My imps need no doors, sir, They go where I tell them. Through any crack, be it as narrow as a nun's or wide as your wife's."

-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches

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20. Pine

By: Francine Toon

3.38

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

They are driving home from the search party when they see her. The trees are coarse and tall in… read more

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  • horror
"...she can’t shake the discomfort of last night. It has seeped into the daylight."

-Francine Toon, Pine

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21. The Leviathan

By: Rosie Andrews

3.48

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

She is awake... Norfolk, 1643. With civil war tearing England apart, reluctant soldier Thomas Tr… read more

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  • horror
"Before leaving, I stopped to drip some water into my father’s mouth. I took one unresponsive hand in mine, willing him to understand. ‘A day, no more, and we will return with help for you. My oath up…"

-Rosie Andrews, The Leviathan

Cover of The Fiends in the Furrows: An Anthology of Folk Horror by David T. Neal

22. The Fiends in the Furrows: An Anthology of Folk Horror

By: David T. Neal

3.75

Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition

The Fiends in the Furrows: An Anthology of Folk Horror is a collection of nine short stories that h… read more

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  • folklore
  • horror
Cover of The Hopkins Manuscript by R.C. Sherriff

23. The Hopkins Manuscript

By: R.C. Sherriff

4.10

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

For fans of the popular and award-winning Netflix movie Don’t Look Up, a prescient, rediscovered sp… read more

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Cover of Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences by Bev  Vincent

24. Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences

By: Bev Vincent

4.44

Format: 243 pages, ebook

Explore the evolution and influences of Stephen King’s body of work over his nearly 50-year career,… read more

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

25. 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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  • criticism
  • nonfiction
  • film
  • horror
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26. Prefecture D

By: Hideo Yokoyama

3.56

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

A collection of four novellas: each taking place in 1998, each set in the world of Six Four, and ea… read more

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Cover of The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar by Robin R. Means Coleman

27. 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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  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • film
  • horror
Cover of The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained by Colin Dickey

28. The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained

By: Colin Dickey

3.67

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

"Absolutely perfect for the current moment." --BuzzfeedAmerica's favorite cultural historian and au… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • horror
"In a single stroke, the Linnaean classification system wiped monsters off the face of the map. There might still be unknown beasts and fearsome creatures out there, but now they each would have a fam…"

-Colin Dickey, The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained

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29. The Wood at Midwinter

By: Susanna Clarke

3.73

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of Piranesi and Jonathan Strange & Mr… read more

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30. The Great When (The Long London Quintet, #1)

By: Alan Moore

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author and legendary storyteller Alan Moore, the first book in … read more

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Cover of We Don't Go Back: A Watcher's Guide to Folk Horror by Howard David Ingham

31. We Don't Go Back: A Watcher's Guide to Folk Horror

By: Howard David Ingham

4.20

Format: 442 pages, Kindle Edition

Secret, strange, dark, impure and dissonant... Enter the haunted landscapes of folk horror, a world… read more

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  • art
  • film
  • media tie in
  • folklore
  • nonfiction
  • criticism
  • reference
  • horror
  • literary criticism

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Transform Your Habits

Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier

Mark Frost

3.89

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Elizabeth Hand

3.80

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The King in Yellow

Robert W. Chambers

3.55

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A Haunting on the Hill

Elizabeth Hand

3.35

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Alasdair Gray

3.94

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Michael Bible

3.60

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L'età fragile

Donatella Di Pietrantonio

3.73

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Silvia Avallone

4.25

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