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Hooked on horror III : a guide to reading interests
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Hooked on horror III : a guide to reading interests

Author: Anthony J Fonseca; June Michele Pulliam
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Libraries Unlimited, 2009.
Series: Genreflecting advisory series
Edition/Format: Book : English
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Anthony J Fonseca; June Michele Pulliam
ISBN: 9781591585404 1591585406
OCLC Number: 262787492
Description: xxiii, 515 p. ; 26 cm.
Contents: A definition of horror -- How to use this book -- A brief history of the horror genre and its current trends -- Ghosts and haunted houses : dealing with absences and presences -- Golem, mummies, and zombies : wake up the dead and they'll be cranky -- Vampires and werewolves : children of the night -- Demonic possession, Satanism, black magic, and witches and warlocks : the Devil made me do it -- Mythological monsters and "the old ones" : invoking the dark gods -- Telekinesis and hypnosis : chaos from control -- Small town horror : villages of the damned -- Maniacs and sociopaths, or, The nuclear family explodes : monstrous malcontents bury the hatchet -- Technohorror : evil hospitals, military screw-ups, mad scientists, and alien invasions -- Ecological horror : Mother Nature gets her revenge -- Psychological horror : it's all in your head -- Splatterpunk : the gross out -- Comic horror : laughing at our fears -- Everyday horror : when the mundane becomes monstrous -- Collections and anthologies -- Reference -- Major awards.
Series Title: Genreflecting advisory series
Other Titles: Hooked on horror 3 :
Responsibility: Anthony J. Fonseca and June Michele Pulliam.

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