The readers' advisory guide to horror / Becky Siegel Spratford.
As both an introductory guide for librarians just dipping their toes into the brackish water of scary fiction, as well as a fount of new ideas for horror-aware reference staff, Spratford's book is infernally appropriate.
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Chicago :
American Library Association,
2012.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
| Series: | ALA readers' advisory series.
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Table of Contents:
- A brief history of horror : how the past haunts the present
- The appeal of horror : feel the fear, find the readers
- Horror 101 : a crash course in today's tales of terror
- The classics : time-tested tales of terror
- Ghosts and haunted houses : home, scream home
- Vampires : books with bite
- Zombies : follow the walking dead
- Shape-shifters : nature morphs into something terrifying
- Monsters and ancient evil : Cthulhu comes calling
- Witches and the occult : double, double, toil and trouble
- Satan and demonic possession : the devil inside
- Comic horror : laughing in the face of fear
- Moving beyond the haunted house : whole collection options for horror readers
- Sowing the seeds of fear : horror resources and marketing.