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1. Paperbacks from hell: the twisted history of '70s and '80s horror fiction

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Author:
Hendrix, Grady
Publisher:
Quirk Books
Pub. Date:
[2017]
Language:
English
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A nostalgic and unflinchingly funny celebration of the horror fiction boom of the 1970's and 1980's, complete with story summaries and artist and author profiles.

2. American scary: a history of horror, from Salem to Stephen King and beyond

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Author:
Dauber, Jeremy, 1973-
Publisher:
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date:
[2024]
Language:
English
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"Columbia professor and cultural historian Jeremy Dauber takes readers to the startling origins of the horror genre in the United States, from the lingering influence of the European Gothic to the enslaved insurrection tales and the apocryphal chronicles of colonial settlers kidnapped by Native Americans"--

3. Horror

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Series:
Greenhaven Press companion to literary movements and genres
Publisher:
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date:
2001
Language:
English
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823.087 HOR

4. Stephen King: the second decade, Danse macabre to The dark half

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Author:
Magistrale, Tony
Series:
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 599
Publisher:
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date:
[1992]
Language:
English
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813.54 MAG

5. Stephen King: the first decade, Carrie to Pet sematary

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Author:
Reino, Joseph
Series:
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 531
Publisher:
Twayne
Pub. Date:
[1988]
Language:
English
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Athens Drive Community - Adult Non-Fiction
813.54 REI

6. Revisiting Stephen King: a critical companion

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Author:
Russell, Sharon A., 1941-
Series:
Critical companions to popular contemporary writers
Publisher:
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date:
2002
Language:
English
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813 KIN

7. Readings on the short stories of Edgar Allan Poe

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Series:
Greenhaven Press literary companion to American authors
Publisher:
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date:
[2001]
Language:
English
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Athens Drive Community - Adult Non-Fiction
813 POE

8. American horror writers

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Author:
Madison, Bob
Series:
Collective biographies
Publisher:
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date:
[2001]
Language:
English
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Description:
Profiles prominent authors of horror fiction, including Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, Shirley Jackson, Rod Serling, Dean Koontz, R.L. Stine, Anne Rice, and Stephen King.

9. The new annotated H.P. Lovecraft

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Author:
Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937
Publisher:
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date:
[2014]
Language:
English
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At the time of his death at the age of forty-six, Lovecraft's work had appeared only in dime-store magazines, ignored by the public and maligned by critics. Now, well over a century after his birth, Lovecraft is increasingly being recognized as the foundation for American horror and science fiction. Editor Leslie S. Klinger charts the rise of the erstwhile pulp writer, whose rediscovery and reclamation into the literary canon can be compared only...

10. Bram Stoker's Dracula

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Series:
Bloom's modern critical interpretations
Publisher:
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date:
[2003]
Language:
English
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Athens Drive Community - Adult Non-Fiction
823.8 STOKER

11. Readings on Frankenstein

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Series:
Greenhaven Press literary companion to British literature
Publisher:
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date:
[2000]
Language:
English
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