Horror Books

New and Published Books

1. Grotesque

   By Justin Edwards, Rune Graulund

   Series: The New Critical Idiom

   Grotesque provides an invaluable and accessible guide to the use (and abuse) of this complex literary term. Justin D. Edwards and Rune Graulund explore the influence of the grotesque on cultural forms throughout history, with particular focus on its representation in literature, visual art and film...

   Published May 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. The 'Evil Child' in Literature, Film and Popular Culture

   Edited by Karen J. Renner

   The 'evil child' has infiltrated the cultural imagination, taking on prominent roles in popular films, television shows and literature. This collection of essays from a global range of scholars examines a fascinating array of evil children and the cultural work that they perform, drawing upon...

   Published October 18th 2012 by Routledge
3. Cinematic Emotion in Horror Films and Thrillers

   The Aesthetic Paradox of Pleasurable Fear

   By Julian Hanich

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   Why can fear be pleasurable? Why do we sometimes enjoy an emotion we otherwise desperately wish to avoid? And why are the movies the predominant place for this paradoxical experience? These are the central questions of Julian Hanich’s path-breaking book, in which he takes a detailed look at the...

   Published March 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Horror Noire

   Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present

   By Robin R Means Coleman

   From King Kong to Candyman, the boundary-pushing genre of the horror film has always been a site for provocative explorations of race in American popular culture. In Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from 1890's to Present, Robin R. Means Coleman traces the history of notable...

   Published June 19th 2011 by Routledge
5. Music in the Horror Film

   Listening to Fear

   Edited by Neil Lerner

   Series: Routledge Music and Screen Media Series

   Music in Horror Film is a collection of essays that examine the effects of music and its ability to provoke or intensify fear in this particular genre of film. Frightening images and ideas can be made even more intense when accompanied with frightening musical sounds, and music in horror film...

   Published December 15th 2009 by Routledge
6. Horror

   By Brigid Cherry

   Series: Routledge Film Guidebooks

   Horror cinema is a hugely successful, but at the same time culturally illicit genre that spans the history of cinema. It continues to flourish with recent cycles of supernatural horror and torture porn that span the full range of horror styles and aesthetics. It is enjoyed by audiences everywhere,...

   Published February 8th 2009 by Routledge
7. Horror, The Film Reader

   Edited by Mark Jancovich

   Series: In Focus: Routledge Film Readers

   Horror, The Film Reader brings together key articles to provide a comprehensive resource for students of horror cinema. Mark Jancovich's introduction traces the development of horror film from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to The Blair Witch Project, and outlines the main critical debates. Combining...

   Published December 12th 2001 by Routledge
8. Reading the Vampire

   By Ken Gelder

   Series: Popular Fictions Series

   Insatiable bloodlust, dangerous sexualities, the horror of the undead, uncharted Trannsylvanian wildernesses, and a morbid fascination with the `other': the legend of the vampire continues to haunt popular imagination.Reading the Vampire examines the vampire in all its various manifestations and...

   Published August 31st 1994 by Routledge