Horror Fiction Genre
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Websites
Horror Fiction News Network - Provides news, excerpts of new works, reviews, blogs, links, news feeds, reading room, and coming soon--Horror Literature Quarterly. -- Review from http://horrorfictionnews.com
Horror Picks - From the Morton Grove Public Library Webrary.
Horror Writers Association - Provides a booklist alphabetically arranged by author's last name. No ranking is implied. Also includes awards, free excerpts, conference information, horror links, reading list, and writing tips for readers, booksellers, and a special webpage for | Librarians. -- Review from http://www.horror.org
Horror Library - A place to read great horror stories. It is also a place to get your own horror fiction seen and read. Not only is The Horror Library a reader’s paradise, but it also an open marketplace. Everything you read here is also up for purchase. -- Review from http://www.horrorlibrary.net
International Horror Guild - Created in 1995 as a way to recognize the achievements of those who create in the field of Horror and Dark Fantasy.
-- Review from http://www.ihgonline.org
Necropsy: A Review of Horror Fiction - Includes author, title, reviewer, and publisher indices and a bookshelf by year of publication. -- Review from http://www.lsu.edu/necrofile
Readers' Advisory Books
Hooked on Horror
Fonseca, Anthony J., & Pulliam, June Michele. (2003). Hooked on horror: a guide to reading interests in horror fiction. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited.
Comprehensive, annotated reader's advisory, the only one to focus solely on the genre. They classify some 1000 titles into 13 subgenres (vampires and werewolves, small-town horror, etc.) along with a list of related films for each subgenre. There are also bibliographies of notable authors, listings of periodicals, horror-related organizations, major awards, publishers, and horror web sites. A useful tool for librarians unfamiliar with the literature.
-- Review from http://www.amazon.com
Horror: The 100 Best Books
Jones, Stephen & Kim Newman. (1988). Horror: The 100 best books. New York: Carroll & Graf.
A modern classic in horror scholarship, a survey of horror literature spanning fifteen centuries, several genres, and a plethora of authors. There's the thrill of reading great writers' thoughts about their favorite authors--Stephen King on Robert Marasco, Peter Straub on King, and Ed Bryant on Dan Simmons among others. Iit's basically a big list of good books.
-- Review from http://www.amazon.com
Horror: Another 100 Best Books
Jones, Stephen, Kim Newman, & Peter Straub. (2005). Horror: Another 100 best books. New York: Carroll & Graf.
The editors include a massive list of "Further Reading" that mentions a whole boatload of books from in and around the genre. Web resources that detail internet locations for both the authors of the 100 books listed and their reviewers appear as add-ons at the back of the book.
-- Review from http://www.amazon.com
Horror Readers' Advisory
Spratford, Becky Siegel & Clausen, Tammy Hennigh. (2004). The horror readers' advisory: the librarian's guide to vampires, killer tomatoes, and haunted houses. Chicago: American Library Association.
Includes listings of top books, authors, and award winners within eleven horror subgenres — like mummies, biomedical, monsters, and splatterpunk. Clear descriptions of characteristics within subgenres are provided throughout. Note: both authors work at the Berwyn Public Library in Berwyn, IL--the webmaster's home town.
-- Review from http://alastore.ala.org/
Definition
Horror fiction aims to evoke some combination of fear, fascination, and revulsion in its readers. This genre, like others, continues to evolve, recently moving away from stories with a religious or supernatural basis to ones making use of medical or psychological ideas.
-- From http://en.wikipedia.org/
Keywords for Searching
Horror stories
Horror Fiction
Horror tales
-- From http://authorities.loc.gov