 | The Horror Reader
Buy new: £15.74 / Used from: £11.00 an excellent reader; either as an introduction, or for otherwise obscure essays.
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 | Reading the Vampire (Popular Fiction) by Ken Gelder
Buy new: £15.58 / Used from: £14.00 a critical history of the vampyre in film and literature
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 | The New Critical Idiom : Gothic (New Critical Idiom) by FRED BOTTING
Buy new: £8.85 / Used from: £5.95 a history of the genre, primarily focusing on pre- 20th century works.
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 | Gothic Horror: A Critical Anthology
Buy used from: £14.50 an introductory reader - a good selction of authors and viewpoints, but more depth would be better.
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 | Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion (New Accents) by Dr Rosemary Jackson
Buy new: £17.09 / Used from: £10.99 a general critical analysis of fantasy literatures, contextualising the gothic.
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 | Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula
Buy used from: £2.00 mostly classic stories, but it contains a good long chapter on the history of vampyre fiction, and info on the writing of 'dracula'
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 | Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (European Perspectives) by J Kristeva
Buy new: £9.55 / Used from: £14.00 psycoanalysis of the appeal and use of horror and its motiffs. the second half of the book is on french author celene. quite heavy reading comapered with the others here.
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 | Lesbian Gothic: Transgressive Fictions by Paulina Palmer
Buy used from: £1.75 slightly specialised but very interesting, and one of my favourites.
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 | Nightmare on Main Street: Angels, Sadomasochism and the Culture of Gothic by M Edmundson
Buy new: £11.95 / Used from: £13.59 a focus on modern gothic - its everywhere!
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 | Vampires (Little Books) by Randy Burgess
Buy used from: £14.12 a very light and brief overview of the vampire in myth and fiction.
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 | Undead: the Greatest Goth Collection of All Time by Various Artists
Buy used from: £22.88 and now you can really relax and get into the ethos of gothic with this buget collection of classic goth hits
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