we all go a little mad sometimes
As The Embedded Horror Librarian I have a plethora of horror genre films and fiction to recommend; classics, cult favorites, and recent additions. What I love best about the horror genre (besides zombies) is that it often overlaps with a number of other genres, including sci-fi, thriller, and fantasy, therefore my recommendations will span all four.
I did my best to keep the lists manageable.
Enjoy!
Favorite Horror(ish) Films:
- Alien (all-time favorite film)
- The Thing (Carpenter's version)
- The Exorcist
- Halloween (again, Carpenter)
- The Fly (Cronenberg)
- Psycho (Hitchcock, who else!)
- Jaws
- Hellraiser
- 28 Days Later
- Night of the Living Dead
- A Nightmare on Elm Street (Craven)
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Hooper)
- House on Haunted Hill (Vincent Price)
- Pet Sematary
- The Shining
Guilty Pleasure Horror(ish) Films:
- Hatchet
- Trick 'r Treat
- House of the Devil
- Friday the 13th (Part 1-7)
- Zombieland
- Hostel
- The Evil Dead
- Army of Darkness
- The Relic
- Predator
- Child's Play
- Candyman
- Mimic
- Midnight Meat Train
- Ravenous
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Book Recommendations:
| Author | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| Clive Barker | Cabal | 2001 |
| The Hellbound Heart | 2007 | |
| William Peter Blatty | The Exorcist | 1971 |
| Max Brooks | World War Z | 2006 |
| Lincoln Child | Terminal Freeze | 2009 |
| Guillermo Del Toro & Chuck Hogan | The Strain | 2009 |
| The Fall | 2011 | |
| The Night Eternal | 2011 | |
| Thomas Harris | Silence of the Lambs | 1988 |
| Shirley Jackson | The Haunting of Hill House | 1959 |
| Jack Kilborn | Afraid | 2009 |
| Stephen King | Pet Sematary | 1998 |
| Jonathan Maberry | Ghost Road Blues (highly recommended - my favorite horror series) | 2006 |
| Dead Man's Song (higly recommended) | 2007 | |
| Bad Moon Rising (highly recommended) | 2008 | |
| Patient Zero: A Joe Ledger Novel | 2009 | |
| The Dragon Factory | 2010 | |
| The King of Plagues | 2011 | |
| Dead of Night | 2011 | |
| Richard Matheson | I Am Legend | 1954 |
| Hell House | 1971 | |
| Michael Palmer | Fatal | 2002 |
| Douglas Preston | The Codex | 2004 |
| Tyrannosaur Canyon | 2005 | |
| Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child | Relic (1st book of the Pendergast series) | 1995 |
| Mount Dragon | 1996 | |
| Reliquary | 1997 | |
| Riptide | 1998 | |
| Thunderhead | 1999 | |
| The Ice Limit | 2000 | |
| The Cabinet of Curiosities | 2002 | |
| Still Life with Crows | 2003 | |
| Brimestone | 2004 | |
| Dance of Death | 2005 | |
| The Book of the Dead | 2006 | |
| The Wheel of Darkness | 2007 | |
| Cemetery Dance | 2009 | |
| Fever Dream | 2010 | |
| Cold Vengeance | 2011 | |
| Douglas Preston & Mario Spezi | The Monster of Florence | 2008 |
| Joe Schreiber | Star Wars: Death Troopers (Star Wars & Horror!) | 2010 |
| Star Wars: Red Harvest | 2012 | |
| Mary Shelley | Frankenstein | 1818 |
| Dan Simmons | The Terror (highly recommended if you like historical fiction) | 2007 |
| Song of Kali | 1985 | |
| D.A. Stern | Shadows in the Asylum: The Case Files of Dr. Charles Marsh | 2005 |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | 1886 |
| Bram Stoker | Dracula | 1897 |
