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1/31: @Nikolas_Schreck's The Satanic Screen: An Illustrated Guide to the Devil in Cinema is a fabulous compendium of Satanic films:
2/31: Barbara Creed's The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis is a seminal exploration of the representation of women in horror:
3/31: Colin Wilson's The Occult is a comprehensive tome covering the history of mystery and magic:
4/31: You've no doubt watched @shudder's superb Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror, but @MeansColeman's Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present is required reading:
5/31: Carol J. Clover's Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film is an incredibly influential text on gender in the horror film:
6/31: Isabel Cristina Pinedo's Recreational Terror: Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing analyses how the contemporary horror film produces recreational terror as a pleasurable encounter with violence and danger for female spectators:
7/31: @DavidKerekes2 and David Slater's Killing for Culture: An Illustrated History of Death Film from Mondo to Snuff offers a detailed history of extreme cinema (now expanded - highly recommend getting both editions if you can!):
8/31: @sammdeighan's stunning Lost Girls: The Phantasmagorical Cinema of Jean Rollin is the perfect complement to John Hind's Fascination: The Celluloid Dreams of Jean Rollin:
9/31: @madefortvmayhem's comprehensive Are You in the House Alone?: A TV Movie Compendium 1964-1999 is THE resource for made-for-television horror:
10/31: Richard Nowell's Blood Money: A History of the First Teen Slasher Film Cycle shifted its focus from dominant psychoanalytic models to demonstrate that filmmakers and marketers went to extraordinary lengths to make early teen slashers attractive to young women:
11/31: All of @suspirialex's beautiful books deserve to be on every horror fan's book shelf! For the full list: https://www.thebluelenses.com/ 
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12 / #31DaysOfHorror film books: Kier-La Janisse's House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films is essential reading. Also recommend Janisse's A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi.
13 / #31DaysOfHorror film books: @Tina_S_Kendall and @tanyahoreck's The New Extremism in Cinema: From France to Europe is utterly wonderful.
14 / #31DaysOfHorror film books: For anything related to vampires in popular culture, @baconetti is *the* expert: https://simonjbacon.wordpress.com/publications/ .
15 / #31DaysofHorror film books: @mjkoven's Film, Folklore, and Urban Legends and Folklore/Cinema: Popular Film as Vernacular Culture (co-edited with Sharon R. Sherman) explore the convergence of folklore with popular cinema studies. (1 of 2)
15 / #31DaysofHorror film books: @mjkoven's La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film extends his vernacular study by exploring the history and evolution of this aspect of cinema and placing the films within the context of Italian popular filmmaking. (2 of 2)
16 / #31DaysOfHorror film books: religious scholar @BearCowan's books exploring religion in popular culture are a must, especially his Sacred Terror: Religion and Horror on the Silver Screen and America's Dark Theologian: The Religious Imagination of Stephen King.
17 / #31DaysOfHorror film books: using a Deleuzian perspective, Anna Powell argues in Deleuze and Horror Film that dominant psychoanalytic approaches neglect the aesthetics of horror and that the experience of viewing a horror film is an 'embodied event.'
18 / #31DaysOfHorror film books: @ScareAlex covers two huge areas of horror analysis with Films of the New French Extremity: Visceral Horror and National Identity and The 1990s Teen Horror Cycle: Final Girls and a New Hollywood Formula.
19 / #31DaysOfHorror film books: @JohnCussans asks how myth and reality have become so entangled in Haitian history, and how voodoo beliefs have informed Haitian politics and the superstitious diplomacy of foreign nations in Undead Rising: Haiti, Horror and The Zombie Complex.
20 / #31DaysOfHorror film books: edited by @delliott_smith and @JEdgarBrowning, New Queer Horror Film and Television is an anthology studying the form, aesthetics and representations of LGBTQ+ identities in an emerging sub-genre of film and television termed âNew Queer Horrorâ.
21 / #31DaysOfHorror film books: In Shocking Representation: Historical Trauma, National Cinema, and the Modern Horror Film, Adam Lowenstein explores how horror films engaged the haunting social conflicts left in the wake of World War II, Hiroshima, and the Vietnam War.
22 / #31DaysOfHorror film books: In Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power, @sadydoyle walks us through the cultural representation of women from ancient to modern times, exploring their relationship with monstrosity and power.
23 / #31DaysOfHorror film books: The Cult Film Reader, edited by Ernest Mathijs and Xavier Mendik, collects essays on the canon of cult cinema and its trends, icons, auteurs and periods of global film production.
24 / #31DaysOfHorror film books: @batndal's The Horror Sensorium: Media and the Senses analyses how storytelling practices, emotional experiences, cognitive responses and physicality ignite the sensory mechanics of the body and its connected intellectual and cognitive functions.
25 / 31DaysofHorror film books: Fernando Espi Forcen's Monsters, Demons and Psychopaths: Psychiatry and Horror highlights the stereotyped models of horror inspired by psychiatric knowledge about mental illness, and uses psychiatric ideas as a way of engaging people in learning.
26 / #31DaysOfHorror film books: Robert Spadoni's Uncanny Bodies: The Coming of Sound Film and the Origins of the Horror Genre is an essential examination of horror films in the early sound era.
27 / #31DaysOfHorror film books: Stephen Thrower's Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci is an exhaustive examination of the filmmaker's life and career.
28 / #31DaysOfHorror film books: Focusing on the post-War period, Terror Tracks: Music, Sound and Horror Cinema, edited by Philip Hayward, explores patterns and inflection in a range of scores - orchestral, popular, rock and electronic - and how these relate to non-musical sound.
29 / #31DaysOfHorror film books: @RealDougBradley is the author of Behind the Mask of the Horror Actor. A must-have for horror fans, this fascinating insight explores cinematic monsters and the actors who create them.
30 / #31DaysOfHorror film books: All of @lee_gambin's horror books deserve a slot on the list, especially his definitive studies/making of monographs, complete with critical analysis, behind the scenes information, and a slew of interviews with cast and crew.
31 / #31DaysOfHorror film books: @AdamScovell's Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange explores folk horror from a hauntological and topographical perspective, as the book's Shakespearean subtitle beautifully illustrates.
