Hooked on horror 3
Subtitle: a guide to reading interests
By: Anthony J. Fonseca and June Michele Pulliam.
Contributors: Pulliam, June Michele.
Series: Genreflecting advisory series
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 515
ISBN-13: 9781591585404
Subjects: Horror tales -- Bibliography; Horror films -- Catalogs
Genres: Bibliography.; Catalogs.
Description: "Hundreds of new horror titles are described and organized according to reading preferences in this new volume of Fonseca and Pulliam's award-winning readers' advisory guide."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: A definition of horror; title: How to use this book; title: A brief history of the horror genre and its current trends; title: Ghosts and haunted houses : dealing with absences and presences; title: Golem, mummies, and zombies : wake up the dead and they'll be cranky; title: Vampires and werewolves : children of the night; title: Demonic possession, Satanism, black magic, and witches and warlocks : the Devil made me do it; title: Mythological monsters and "the old ones" : invoking the dark gods; title: Telekinesis and hypnosis : chaos from control; title: Small town horror : villages of the damned; title: Maniacs and sociopaths, or, The nuclear family explodes : monstrous malcontents bury the hatchet; title: Technohorror : evil hospitals, military screw-ups, scientific goofs, and alien invasions; title: Ecological horror : Mother Nature gets her revenge; title: Psychological horror : it's all in your head; title: Splatterpunk : the gross out; title: Comic horror : laughing at our fears; title: Everyday horror : when the mundane becomes monstrous; title: Collections and anthologies; title: Ready reference; title: Major awards.