Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters

7 best books like Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (J. Jack Halberstam): Maskerade, An Unkindness of Ghosts, The Windup Girl, The Word for World is Forest, Laughter in the Dark, The Mount, The Philosophy of Horror: Or, Paradoxes of the Heart

Maskerade

Author	Terry Pratchett
ISBN	0575058080

THE SHOW MUST GO ON, AS MURDER, MUSIC AND MAYHEM RUN RIOT IN THE NIGHT...

The Opera House, Ankh-Morpork...a huge, rambling building, where innocent young sopranos are lured to their destiny by a strangely-familiar eveil mastermind in a hideously-deformed evening dress...

At least,...

An Unkindness of Ghosts

Author	Rivers Solomon
ISBN	1617755885

Odd-mannered, obsessive, withdrawn, Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, as they accuse, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until...

The Windup Girl

Author	Paolo Bacigalupi
ISBN	1597801577

Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko...

Emiko is the Windup...

The Word for World is Forest

Author

Ursula K. Le Guin

Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named "New Tahiti" on a tree-covered planet whose small, green-furred, big-eyed inhabitants have a culture centered on lucid dreaming. Terran greed spirals around native innocence & wisdom, overturning...

Laughter in the Dark

Author	Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN	0811216748

"Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster." Thus begins Vladimir Nabokov's Laughter in the Dark; this, the author tells...

The Mount

Author	Carol Emshwiller
ISBN	0142403024

Charley is an athlete. He wants to be painted crossing the finish line, in his racing silks, with a medal around his neck. But Charley isn't a runner. He is a human mount, the property of one of the alien invaders called Hoots. Charley hasn't seen his mother in years, and his father is hiding out in the mountains...

The Philosophy of Horror: Or, Paradoxes of the Heart

Author	Noël Carroll
ISBN	0415902169

Noel Carroll, film scholar and philosopher, offers the first serious look at the aesthetics of horror. In this book he discusses the nature and narrative structures of the genre, dealing with horror as a "transmedia" phenomenon. A fan and serious student of the horror genre, Carroll brings to bear...