Looking for a way to get into the Halloween spirit? The MIT Libraries have you covered! Take a look at the list below to find a book, graphic novel, eBook, or DVD to celebrate the season. We’ve got materials on the history of horror movies to the witch trials to zombies in popular culture.
This isn’t a comprehensive list, so if you’re looking for other materials, do a search in Barton, WorldCat, or just Ask Us! Enjoy!
Books:
- Hosting the Monster, Holly Lynn Baumgartner and Roger Davis
- How Zombies Conquered Popular Culture: The Multifarious Walking Dead in the 21st Century, Kyle William Bishop
- House of Leaves, Mark Danielewski
- Games of Terror: Halloween, Friday the 13th, and the Films of the Stalker Cycle, Vera Dika
- Monstrous Progeny: A History of the Frankenstein Narratives, Lester D. Friedman
- The Monster in the Machine: Magic, Medicine, and the Marvelous in the Time of the Scientific Revolution, Zakiya Hanafi
- At Stake: Monsters and the Rhetoric of Fear in Public Culture, Edward Ingebretsen
- Abject Terrors: Surveying the Modern and Postmodern Horror Film, Tony Magistrale
- The Monster in the Garden: the Grotesque and the Gigantic in Renaissance Landscape Design, Luke Morgan
- Where, Kit Reed
- Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film, 1978-1986 Adam Rockoff
- Zombies: A Record of the Year of Infection: Field Notes by Dr. Robert Twombly, Don Roff
- Mathematical Modelling of Zombies, Robert Smith
Graphic Novels:
- The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks, Max Brooks
- The Walking Dead, Robert Kirkman
- Marvel Zombies, Robert Kirkman
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Graphic Novel, Tony Lee
- The Goon, Eric Powell
eBooks:
- Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film, Wickham Clayton
- Beyond the Witch Trials: Witchcraft and Magic in Enlightenment Europe, Owen Davies and Willem de Blecourt
- American Horror Film: The Genre at the Turn of the Millennium, Steffen Hantke
- The Wtch of the Woodlands, Laurence Price
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