Nightmare Movies: A Critical Guide to Contemporary Horror Films

9 best books like Nightmare Movies: A Critical Guide to Contemporary Horror Films (Kim Newman): Carmilla, Danse Macabre, The Cricket in Times Square, Ivanhoe, Full Throttle, American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century, Dead Poets Society, The Thief of Always, Clive Barker's A - Z of Horror

Carmilla

Author	J. Sheridan Le Fanu
ISBN	0809510839

Bloody relevant to read!


BEFORE DRACULA, THERE WAS...

But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.

This is a very important book in historic sense, in the genre of vampire reading, due that it was published 25 years before than Dracula....

Danse Macabre

Author

Stephen King

Before he gave us the “one of a kind classic” (The Wall Street Journal) memoir On Writing, Stephen King wrote a nonfiction masterpiece in Danse Macabre, “one of the best books on American popular culture” (Philadelphia Inquirer).

From the author of dozens of #1 New York Times bestsellers...

The Cricket in Times Square

Author	George Selden
ISBN	0440228891

One night, the sounds of New York City--the rumbling of subway trains, thrumming of automobile tires, hooting of horns, howling of brakes, and the babbling of voices--is interrupted by a sound that even Tucker Mouse, a jaded inhabitant of Times Square, has never heard before. Mario, the son of Mama...

Ivanhoe

Author	Walter Scott
ISBN	0140436588

For this novel, Scott moved far away from the setting of his own turbulent time. He went back to the late 12th century, and to England rather than the Scottish settings of all his previous novels. He connected his writing Ivanhoe with his concerns about contemporary events.
Scott drew together the...

Full Throttle

Author	Joe Hill
ISBN	0062200674

In this masterful collection of short fiction, Joe Hill dissects timeless human struggles in thirteen relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including “In The Tall Grass,” one of two stories co-written with Stephen King, basis for the terrifying feature film from Netflix.

A little...

American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

Author

Maureen Callahan

A gripping tour de force of investigative journalism that takes us deep into the investigation behind one of the most frightening and enigmatic serial killers in modern American history, and into the ranks of a singular American police force: the Alaska PD.

Most of us have never heard of Israel...

Dead Poets Society

Author	N.H. Kleinbaum
ISBN	0553282980

Todd Anderson and his friends at Welton Academy can hardly believe how different life is since their new English professor, the flamboyant John Keating, has challenged them to "make your lives extraordinary! " Inspired by Keating, the boys resurrect the Dead Poets Society--a secret club where, free...

The Thief of Always

Author	Clive Barker
ISBN	0060177241

Master storyteller and bestselling novelist Clive Barker creates an enchanting tale for both children and adults to cherish and retell. The Thief of Always tells the haunting story of Harvey, a bright 10-year-old who is suffering from the winter doldrums, and of a creature who takes him to a place where...

Clive Barker's A - Z of Horror

Author	Stephen Jones
ISBN	0061053678

In this richly illustrated volume--masterfully complied from the BBC television miniseries by Stephen Jones--Clive Barker, the modern master of horror, takes you on a terrifyingly intimate tour of his personal sources and secrets. Here is the unspeakable stuff of which Barker's vision was formed:...