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American Gothic Literature
by
Ruth Bienstock Anolik
ISBN: 9780786498512
Publication Date: 2018-12-14
Braaaiiinnnsss!
by
Robert Smith? (Editor); Stacey Smith? (Editor)
ISBN: 9780776607702
Publication Date: 2011-10-08
Childbirth and Parenting in Horror Texts
by
Amanda DiGioia
ISBN: 9781787148826
Publication Date: 2017-07-26
The Final Girl Support Group
by
Grady Hendrix
ISBN: 9780593201251
Publication Date: 2021-07-13
Folk Horror
by
Dawn Keetley (Editor); Ruth Heholt (Editor)
ISBN: 9781786839794
Publication Date: 2023-06-06
Ghosts along the Mississippi River
by
Alan Brown
ISBN: 9781617031458
Publication Date: 2011-09-01
Haunted
by
Leo Braudy
ISBN: 9780300203806
Publication Date: 2016-10-25
Haunted Holiday Stitches
by
Laura McElroy
ISBN: 9798888143919
Publication Date: 2025-07-22
The Haunted House on Film
by
Paul Meehan
ISBN: 9781476674582
Publication Date: 2019-12-23
A History of Horror, 2nd Edition
by
Wheeler Winston Dixon
ISBN: 9781978833623
Publication Date: 2023-02-10
Horror
by
Brigid Cherry
ISBN: 9780415456678
Publication Date: 2009-04-06
Horror Fiction in the 20th Century
by
Jess Nevins
ISBN: 9781440862069
Publication Date: 2020-01-07
Horror Literature from Gothic to Post-Modern
by
Michele Brittany (Editor); Nicholas Diak (Editor)
ISBN: 9781476674889
Publication Date: 2020-03-02
Horror Noire
by
Robin R. Means Coleman
ISBN: 1000775119
Publication Date: 2022-11-01
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
by
Washington. Irving
ISBN: 9781775412250
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
The Making of Horror Movies
by
Jennifer Selway
ISBN: 9781526774712
Publication Date: 2021-06-09
The Many Lives of Scary Clowns
by
Ron Riekki (Editor)
ISBN: 9781476680910
Publication Date: 2022-05-30
Monstrous Bodies
by
June Pulliam
ISBN: 9780786475438
Publication Date: 2014-08-08
My Heart Is a Chainsaw
by
Stephen Graham Jones
ISBN: 9781982137656
Publication Date: 2021-08-31
Never Whistle at Night
by
Shane Hawk (Editor); Theodore C. Van Alst (Editor)
ISBN: 9780593468463
Publication Date: 2023-09-19
The Phantom of the Opera
by
Gaston Leroux
ISBN: 9781775411055
Publication Date: 2009-05-01
The Philosophy of Horror
by
Thomas Fahy (Editor, Contribution by); Paul A. Cantor (Contribution by); Susann B. Cokal (Contribution by); Robert Gross (Contribution by); Ann C. Hall (Contribution by); David Johnston (Contribution by); Phillip J. Nickel (Contribution by); Phillip Tallon (Contribution by); Jeremy Morris (Contribution by); Jessica O'Hara (Contribution by); Amy Kind (Contribution by); Lorena Russell (Contribution by); John Lutz (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9780813125732
Publication Date: 2010-04-30
The Spaces and Places of Horror [PDF]
by
Francesco Pascuzzi (Editor); Sandra Waters (Editor)
ISBN: 9781622738632
Publication Date: 2020-01-16
The Turn of the Screw
by
Henry James; Philip M. Parker
ISBN: 1423752805
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Fashioning Horror
by
Julia Petrov (Editor, Editor); Gudrun D. Whitehead (Editor, Editor)
ISBN: 9781350036185
Publication Date: 2017-12-14
Fear and Nature
by
Christy Tidwell (Editor); Carter Soles (Editor)
ISBN: 9780271090214
Publication Date: 2021-07-07
Slender Man Is Coming
by
Trevor J. Blank; Lynne S. McNeill
ISBN: 9781607327806
Publication Date: 2018-09-22
The Hunger
by
Alma Katsu
Call Number: PS3611.A7886 H86 2018
ISBN: 9780735212510
Publication Date: 2018-03-06
Carmilla: the First Vampire
by
Amy Chu; Soo Lee (Illustrator); Sal Cipriano (Illustrator)
Call Number: PN6727.C4976 C36 2023
ISBN: 9781506734644
Publication Date: 2023-02-28
American Psycho
by
Bret Easton Ellis
Call Number: PS3555.L5937 A8 1991
ISBN: 9780679735779
Publication Date: 1991-03-06
In the Dream House
by
Carmen Maria Machado
Call Number: PS3613.A2725243 Z46 2019
ISBN: 9781644450031
Publication Date: 2019-11-05
Her Body and Other Parties
by
Carmen Maria Machado
Call Number: PS3613.A2725243 H47 2017
ISBN: 9781555977887
Publication Date: 2017-10-03
Ararat
by
Christopher Golden
Call Number: PS3557.O35927 A89 2017
ISBN: 9781250117052
Publication Date: 2017-04-18
The Midnight Club
by
Christopher Pike; Patricia Macdonald (Editor)
Call Number: Fiction P
ISBN: 0671872559
Publication Date: 1994-02-01
Camp Damascus
by
Chuck Tingle
Call Number: PS3620.I534 C36 2023
ISBN: 9781250874627
Publication Date: 2023-07-18
The Damnation Game
by
Clive Barker
Call Number: PR6052.A6475 D3 1987
ISBN: 9780399132780
Publication Date: 1987-05-07
Walking Practice
by
Dolki Min; Victoria Caudle (Translator)
Call Number: PL994.515.D65 B6413 2023
ISBN: 9780063258617
Publication Date: 2023-03-14
Plain Bad Heroines
by
Emily M. Danforth; Sara Lautman (Illustrator)
Call Number: PS3604.A5233 P53 2020
ISBN: 9780062942852
Publication Date: 2020-10-20
Dark places
by
Gillian Flynn
Call Number: PS3606.L935 D37 2010
ISBN: 9780753827031
Publication Date: 2010
Bright Darkness
by
Jeremy Dyson
Call Number: PN1995.9.H6 D97 1997
ISBN: 0304700371
Publication Date: 1997-10-01
Bad Cree
by
Jessica Johns
Call Number: PR9199.4.J63642 B34 2023
ISBN: 9780385548694
Publication Date: 2023-01-10
The Auctioneer
by
Joan Samson
Call Number: PS3569.A4667 A83 1975
ISBN: 9780671221393
Publication Date: 1976-01-15
Horns
by
Joe Hill
Call Number: PS3608.I4342 H67 2010
ISBN: 9780061147951
Publication Date: 2010-02-16
The Enemy Within
by
John Demos
Call Number: BF1566 .D46 2009
ISBN: 9780143116332
Publication Date: 2009-09-29
How to Hunt Ghosts
by
Joshua P. Warren
Call Number: BF1471 .W37 2003
ISBN: 9780743234931
Publication Date: 2003-09-09
Shadowlands
by
Kate Brian
Call Number: Fiction B
ISBN: 9781423164838
Publication Date: 2013-01-08
Jeffrey's Favorite 13 Ghost Stories
by
Kathryn Tucker Windham
Call Number: BF1472.U6 W563 2004
ISBN: 9781588381705
Publication Date: 2004-05-01
Thirteen Tennessee Ghosts and Jeffrey
by
Kathryn Tucker Windham; Dilcy Windham Hilley (Afterword by); Ben Windham (Afterword by)
Call Number: BF1472.U6 W57 2016
ISBN: 9780817319014
Publication Date: 2016-02-20
An introduction to Yōkai culture : monsters, ghosts, and outsiders in Japanese history
by
Komatsu Kazuhiko ; translated by Hiroko Yoda and Matt Alt
Call Number: BF1517.J3 K67513 2017
ISBN: 9784916055804
Publication Date: 2017
How to Solve Your Own Murder
by
Kristen Perrin
Call Number: PS3616.E785 H69 2024
ISBN: 9780593474013
Publication Date: 2024-03-26
Vampire Lectures
by
Laurence A. Rickels
Call Number: PN1995.9.V3 R53 1999
ISBN: 0816633924
Publication Date: 1999-09-15
Natural Beauty
by
Ling Ling Huang
Call Number: PS3608.U22483 N38 2023
ISBN: 9780593472927
Publication Date: 2023-04-04
Night's Edge
by
Liz Kerin
Call Number: PS3611.E7345 N54 2023
ISBN: 9781250835673
Publication Date: 2023-06-20
Halloween
by
Nicholas Rogers
Call Number: GT4965 .R634 2002
ISBN: 0195146913
Publication Date: 2002-10-31
Eileen
by
Ottessa Moshfegh
Call Number: PS3613.O77936 E37 2015
ISBN: 9781594206627
Publication Date: 2015-08-18
Zombies, Vampires, and Philosophy
by
Richard. Greene (Editor); K. Silem Mohammad (Editor)
Call Number: BF1556 .Z66 2010
ISBN: 9780812696837
Publication Date: 2010-03-30
The Dead Take the a Train
by
Richard Kadrey; Cassandra Khaw
Call Number: PR9619.4.K49 D43 2023
ISBN: 9781250867025
Publication Date: 2023-10-03
Braaaiiinnnsss!
by
Robert Smith? (Editor); Stacey Smith? (Editor)
Call Number: GR581 .B73 2011
ISBN: 9780776607702
Publication Date: 2011-10-08
Zombies
by
Roger Luckhurst
Call Number: GR581 .L83 2015
ISBN: 9781780235288
Publication Date: 2015-10-15
Little Eyes
by
Samanta Schweblin
Call Number: PQ7798.29.C5388 K4613 2020
ISBN: 9780525541363
Publication Date: 2020-05-05
Mexican Gothic
by
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Call Number: PR9199.4.M656174 M49 2020
ISBN: 0525620788
Publication Date: 2020-06-30
I Was a Teenage Slasher
by
Stephen Graham Jones
Call Number: PS3560.O5395 I93 2024
ISBN: 9781668022245
Publication Date: 2024-07-16
Everything's Eventual
by
Stephen King
Call Number: PS3561.I483 E85 2002
ISBN: 0743235150
Publication Date: 2002-03-19
Little Horrors
by
T. S. Kord
Call Number: PN1995.9.H6 K67 2016
ISBN: 9781476666068
Publication Date: 2016-08-08
The Reformatory
by
Tananarive Due
Call Number: PS3554.U3143 R44 2023
ISBN: 9781982188344
Publication Date: 2023-10-31
Pseudoscience and the Paranormal
by
Terence Hines
Call Number: BF1042 .H55 1988
ISBN: 0879754192
Publication Date: 1988-01-01
Burn down, Rise Up
by
Vincent Tirado
Call Number: Fiction B
ISBN: 9781728246000
Publication Date: 2022-05-03
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