probly the most famous one is Danse Macabre by Stephen King

I really liked Danse Macabre- though I liked King's On Writing better - cool insight into the whole creative process. But Danse Macabre is probably the best introduction to teh whole question of horror out there - in terms of begin accessible and broad.


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Re: Best Books on Horror Films
 

I enjoyed this verry much

Psychos! Sickos! Sequels!

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Denis Gifford's "A Pictorial History of Horror Movies"

Way excellent book, plus, as might be expected, great photos.

Try These:

Horror Holocaust by Chas. Balun
Beyond Horror Holocaust by Chas. Balun

and the absolute best Vampire book EVER:

The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead (second edition by J. Gordon Melton and published by Visible Ink Press.

This encycleopedia has EVERYTHING you wanted to know about Vampires; movie history and filmology, myths, legends, vampirism, Gothic movement, Vlad Tepes, History etc.... Excellent book.

In terms of overall history of horror - a lot of them are either really cheezy "fan-boy" stuff or really academic. Some of the more academic stuff is pretty interesting though - I thought Andrew Tudor's Monsters and Mad Scientists was very interesting as it looked at how the horror genre changed over the decades. A cool overview.

By the by, I just finished the book that started this whole thread (and oddly got me accused of spamming - hmmpph). Projected Fears was really cool and I liked where in the conclusion the author says that we shouldn't be suprised at the onslaught of remakes since we've got another Bush in teh White House and we're involved in another war in Iraq - political zingers abounded! It made me laugh out loud.
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How about Worst Book on Horror?!?!
 

Just finished (well sort of) reading/trying to read a book by Daryl Jones called simply Horror. God it was awful - impenetrable and obscure with paragraphs that were literally incoherent.

My second runner-up for worst book on horror movies was one I read last year called Red White and Blue Nightmares (or something like that) - it wasn't so badly written but kind of pointless.