The Horror Reader's Advisory

It's a dark and scary world. Fans are rabid. Blood, guts and gore are the norm. Welcome to the horror genre. Horror classics have been scaring people for years. Nowadays, who doesn't know about Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Dean Koontz? Profiled in a special section, the "Big Three" have turned horror into best-sellers. For all the horror fans that haunt your library, this is the must-have guide.

Through the Dragon Glass & Other Masterpieces of Fantasy, Horror and the Uncanny

THE GRANDMASTER OF FANTASY! Volume II of the first ever collection of the complete short stories of A. Merritt, the supreme genius of fantasy, terror and speculation. Includes, for the first time ever, Merritt's lost story, "Pool of the Stone God." Merritt weaves, "A glimmering, glittering web of imagination…" New York Times. Through the Dragon Glass ..

Horror, The Film Reader

Key articles and essays introduce students to debates over the definition of the horror film as a genre, its sexual politics, and its conditions of production and consumption.

The Philosophy of Horror: Or, Paradoxes of the Heart

How can we be genuinely frightened of vampires, though we know they don't exist? How is it that people find pleasure in being scared out of their wits? Carroll presents the first philosophical and aesthetic analysis of horror.

The Double Horror of Fenley Place

Nancy visits a movie set and finds terror on location! World-famous director Hank Steinberg is filming a horror flick in Nancy's hometown of River Heights. The movie tells a spine-tingling story about a haunted house. Most shocking of all, though, is what's going on across the street at an old Victorian mansion called Fenley Place. Whatever ..

Morbid Fascinations: An Anthology of Horror

Eight chilling tales of terror, including one from New York Times bestselling author Vonda N. McIntyre