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Hooked on horror III : a guide to reading interests / Anthony J. Fonseca and June Michele Pulliam.

by Fonseca, Anthony J.

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Libraries Unlimited, 2009.

808.838738 F676h 2009

Horror fiction -- Bibliography.

Horror films -- Bibliography.

Horror fiction -- Stories, plots, etc.

Genreflecting advisory series.

9781591585404 (alk. paper)

1591585406 (alk. paper)

Alternate title:

Hooked on horror three

Hooked on horror 3

xxiii, 515 p. ; 26 cm.

Includes indexes.

A definition of horror -- How to use this book -- A brief history of the horror genre and its current trends -- Ghosts and haunted houses : dealing with presences and absences -- Golem, mummies, and zombies : wake the dead and they'll be cranky -- Vampires and werewolves : children of the night -- Demonic possession, Satanism, black magic, and witches and warlocks : the Devil made me do it -- Mythological monsters and "the old ones" : invoking the dark gods -- Telekinesis and hypnosis : chaos from control -- Small town horror : villages of the damned -- Maniacs and sociopaths, or, The nuclear family explodes : monstrous malcontents bury the hatchet -- Technohorror : evil hospitals, military screw-ups, mad scientists, and alien invasions -- Ecological horror : Mother Nature has her revenge -- Psychological horror : it's all in your head -- Splatterpunk : the gross out -- Comic horror : laughing at our fears -- Everyday horror : when the mundane becomes monstrous -- Collections and anthologies -- Reference -- Major awards.

Readers' advisory materials.

Pulliam, June Michele.

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