Feel like doing some extra credit? Beef up your knowledge with the selections below for a 101 on horror films and more.
Haunted: On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies, and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural World by Leo Braudy
Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film edited Wickham Clayton
Men, Women and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film by Carol J. Clover
The Philosophy of Horror editor Thomas Fahy
Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film editor Barry Keith Grant
American Horror Film: The Genre at the Turn of the Millennium editor Steffen Hantke
Horror the Film Reader editor Mark Jancovich
Danse Macabre by Stephen King
Reel Terror: The Scary, Bloody, Gory, Hundred-Year History of Classic Horror Films by David Konow
Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present by Robin R. Means Coleman
Horror Films FAQ by John Kenneth Muir
Blood Money: A History of the First Teen Slasher Film Cycle by Richard Nowell
Horror Film Reader editors Alain Silver and James Ursini
They Came From Within: A History of Canadian Horror Cinema by Caelum Vatnsdal
Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood and Invented Modern Horror by Jason Zinoman
BY THE FACULTY
Andrea Subissati
When There’s No More Room In Hell: The Sociology of the Living Dead
The Undead and Theology (contributor)
The Canadian Horror Film: Terror and the Soul (contributor)
Yuletide Terror (contributor)
Alexandra West
The 1990s Teen Horror Cycle: Final Girls and a New Hollywood Formula
Films of the New French Extremity: Visceral Horror and National Identity
The Supernatural Cinema of Guillermo Del Toro (contributor)
Yuletide Terror (contributor)