Book List: Five Anticipated Nonfiction Horror Reads

I love reading horror, and while I mostly read fiction, I also love indulging in nonfiction titles surrounding horror and its many forms, sources, and representations. Here are five titles currently sitting on my TBR that I’m excited to read.

Five Anticipated Nonfiction Horror Reads:

• Horror: A Literary History by Xavier Aldana Reyes: “a chronological overview of the [horror] genre in fiction” that “explores its development and mutations over the past 250 years” (and much more!)

• Nightmare Fuel: The Science of Horror Films by Nina Nesseth: “a pop-science look at fear, how and why horror films get under our skin, and why we keep coming back for more”

• Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil, and Ruin by Richard Davenport-Hines: a “magisterial study of the gothic imagination, from vampire novels to the modern day landscape of Bladerunner”

• The Art of Darkness: A Treasury of the Morbid, Melancholic, and Macabre by S. Elizabeth: “a visually rich sourcebook featuring eclectic artworks from throughout history which have been inspired and informed by the morbid, melancholic, and macabre”

• The Science of Witchcraft: The Truth Behind Sabrina, Maleficent, Glinda, and More of Your Favorite Fictional Witches by Meg Hafdahl and Kelly Florence: “a scientific discovery of witches in fiction”

Current Nonfiction Horror Read:

• 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered by Sadie Hartmann

Have you read any of these, or do you have a nonfiction horror title that you’d like to recommend?

❤Amanda

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