The Horror Readers' Advisory

The Librarian's Guide to Vampires, Killer Tomatoes, and Haunted Houses

By: Becky Siegel Spratford, Tammy Hennigh Clausen

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Paperback | 1 January 2004

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It's a dark and scary world. Pans are tabid. Blood, guts, and gore are the norm. Welcome to the horror genre. Horror classics have been scaring people for years. Nowadays, who doesn't know about Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Dean Koontz? Profiled in a special section, the "Big Three" have turned horror into best-sellers. For all the horror fans that haunt your library, this is the must-have guide. Readers' advisors and reference librarians will appreciate the key tools provided to expand upon this genre, including 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. To further help you engage new renders, expert horror mavens Spratford and Clausen draw a savvy connection between film and horror as a potent reminder that the scariest movies have been adapted from novels. Their classic and contemporary recommendations like Rebecca, The Shining, and Rosemary's Baby reinforce activities between readers' advisors and library programming and open up the (cellar) door for further patron involvement. Readers' advisors and referen

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Introduction and acknowledgements
The evolution of horror literature and film
The readers' advisory interview : matching horror novels with readers sub-genres
The classics : time tested tales of terror
Ghosts and haunted houses : home scream home
Mummies, zombies, and golems : the walking dead under wraps
Vampires : dracula will never die
Werewolves and animals of terror : the beast walks among us
Monsters and maniacs : the killer lurking in the corner
Black magic, witches, warlocks, and the occult : double, double, toil and trouble
Demonic possession and satanism : the devil inside
Biomedical and scientific horror : the doctor will see you now
Psychological horror : mental mayhem
Splatterpunk or extreme horror : horror's cutting edge
Horror resources : how to hunt for the haunted
Collection development : cultivating the seeds of fear
Marketing your horror collection : make them come back to your lair of horror
The big three
Bibliography
Index
Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved.

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