10 Best nonfiction books like Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist (21st Century Essays) by Marlena Williams

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Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist (21st Century Essays)

By: Marlena Williams

4.38

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Never watch  The Exorcist , Marlena Williams’s mother told her, just as she’d been told by her own …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist (21st Century Essays) by Marlena Williams , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Raising Demons

By: Shirley Jackson

4.00

Format: 139 pages, Paperback

Life Among the Savages charmed thousands with its insightful wit and contrasting warmth. In this se… read more

Similar categories in Shirley Jackson's Raising Demons book and Marlena Williams's Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist (21st Century Essays)

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
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2. Cold Moon Over Babylon

By: Michael McDowell

3.99

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Terror grows in Babylon, a typical sleepy Southern town with its throbbing sun and fog-shrouded swa… read more

Similar categories in Michael McDowell's Cold Moon Over Babylon book and Marlena Williams's Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist (21st Century Essays)

  • 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

Similar categories in Carol J. Clover's Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film book and Marlena Williams's Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist (21st Century Essays)

  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • film
  • horror
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4. Button, Button: Uncanny Stories

By: Richard Matheson

4.00

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

What if every time you pushed a button you received $50,000...but someone you didn't know died? Wou… read more

Similar categories in Richard Matheson's Button, Button: Uncanny Stories book and Marlena Williams's Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist (21st Century Essays)

  • horror
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5. 血の轍 4 [Chi no Wadachi 4]

By: Shuzo Oshimi

4.31

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

最愛の息子にカノジョが…毒母、悶絶!? “母親地獄”の中で、ますます精神的に追い詰められる静一。 以前ラブレターをくれたクラスメートの吹石さんはその様子を心配し、静一を気遣い、二人は急接近す… read more

Similar categories in Shuzo Oshimi's 血の轍 4 [Chi no Wadachi 4] book and Marlena Williams's Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist (21st Century Essays)

  • horror
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6. 血の轍 2 [Chi no Wadachi 2]

By: Shuzo Oshimi

4.13

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

暴走する母性という狂気…愛に殺される! ママ、なぜ「あんなこと」をしたの!? 母・静子の突然の“異常行動”. 息つく間もなく 静一の自我を粉々に打ち砕く次なる“事件”が起こり… … read more

Similar categories in Shuzo Oshimi's 血の轍 2 [Chi no Wadachi 2] book and Marlena Williams's Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist (21st Century Essays)

  • horror
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7. 血の轍 3 [Chi no Wadachi 3]

By: Shuzo Oshimi

4.21

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

そして、「究極のマザコン」が生まれる… 自我を吸い取られた静一は ママの玩具としての生活を受け入れる。 わずかでも自己を主張すれば 思いもよらぬ「攻撃」が待ち受ける そんな“母親地獄”… read more

Similar categories in Shuzo Oshimi's 血の轍 3 [Chi no Wadachi 3] book and Marlena Williams's Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist (21st Century Essays)

  • horror
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8. Keanu Reeves is Not in Love With You: The Murky World of Online Romance Fraud

By: Becky Holmes

3.88

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

One woman's hilarious and fascinating quest to expose the truth behind fraudulent Twitter romance … read more

Similar categories in Becky Holmes's Keanu Reeves is Not in Love With You: The Murky World of Online Romance Fraud book and Marlena Williams's Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist (21st Century Essays)

  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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9. Ghost Book

By: Remy Lai

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Perfect for fans of Spirited Away, Coco, and Ghosts comes a contemporary fantasy graphic novel abou… read more

Similar categories in Remy Lai's Ghost Book book and Marlena Williams's Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist (21st Century Essays)

  • horror
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10. Alan Partridge: Big Beacon

By: Alan Partridge

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the o… read more

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11. Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me

By: Ada Calhoun

4.02

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A staggering memoir from New York Times bestselling author Ada Calhoun tracing her fraught relation… read more

Similar categories in Ada Calhoun's Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me book and Marlena Williams's Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist (21st Century Essays)

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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12. Bad Dolls

By: Rachel Harrison

3.73

Format: 132 pages, ebook

In this stunning new collection of four horror stories, award-winning author Rachel Harrison explor… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Harrison's Bad Dolls book and Marlena Williams's Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist (21st Century Essays)

  • horror
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13. Soichi

By: Junji Ito

3.92

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

“I’LL GET YOU FOR THIS… I’LL SHOW YOU TRUE HORROR!” Soichi, the unhinged second son of the Tsuji… read more

Similar categories in Junji Ito's Soichi book and Marlena Williams's Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist (21st Century Essays)

  • horror
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14. 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

Similar categories in Joe Vallese's It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror book and Marlena Williams's Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist (21st Century Essays)

  • horror
  • nonfiction
  • film
  • essays
"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

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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

Similar categories in Sadie Hartmann's 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered book and Marlena Williams's Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist (21st Century Essays)

  • 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. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil

By: Ananda Lima

3.52

Format: 181 pages, Hardcover

At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughou… read more

Similar categories in Ananda Lima's Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil book and Marlena Williams's Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist (21st Century Essays)

  • horror
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17. 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

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's I Was a Teenage Slasher book and Marlena Williams's Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist (21st Century Essays)

  • horror
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18. The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens

By: Nicola Clark

4.18

Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition

Who taught Catherine of Aragon English, helped Anne Boleyn get dressed in the morning, discussed se… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Clark's The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens book and Marlena Williams's Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist (21st Century Essays)

  • nonfiction
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19. Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist (21st Century Essays)

By: Marlena Williams

4.38

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Never watch  The Exorcist , Marlena Williams’s mother told her, just as she’d been told by her own … read more

Similar categories in Marlena Williams's Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist (21st Century Essays) book and Marlena Williams's Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist (21st Century Essays)

  • memoir
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • horror
  • sociology
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20. American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond

By: Jeremy Dauber

3.71

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of American Comics and Jewish Comedy comes a sweeping and entertaining na… read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Dauber's American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond book and Marlena Williams's Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist (21st Century Essays)

  • nonfiction
  • film
  • horror
Cover of Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops by Tim Robey

21. Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops

By: Tim Robey

3.64

Format: 387 pages, Kindle Edition

From grand follies to misunderstood masterpieces, disastrous sequels to catastrophic literary adapt… read more

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  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • film

15 must-read horror books like Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist (21st Century Essays) by Marlena Williams

Transform Your Habits

Cold Moon Over Babylon

Michael McDowell

3.99

Transform Your Habits

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

Carol J. Clover

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Button, Button: Uncanny Stories

Richard Matheson

4.00

Transform Your Habits

血の轍 4 [Chi no Wadachi 4]

Shuzo Oshimi

4.31

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Transform Your Habits

Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe

John Guy

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Queens of the Crusades (England's Medieval Queens, #2)

Alison Weir

3.97

Transform Your Habits

The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of British History at Hampton Court

Gareth Russell

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Young Elizabeth: Elizabeth I and Her Perilous Path to the Crown

Nicola Tallis

4.36

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