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Hooked on Horror III

A Guide to Reading Interests
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Hundreds of new horror titles are described and organized according to reading preferences in this new volume of Fonseca and Pulliam's award-winning readers' advisory guide. Focusing on titles published in the last decade, along with a few older classics, the authors cover more than a dozen popular subgenres of horror fiction, including vampires and werewolves, techno-horror, ghosts and haunted houses, and small town horror. Lively annotations and commentary help you find the right book for your most demanding horror fans. More than 500 annotations are new to this edition. Hundreds of new horror titles are described and organized according to reading preferences in this new volume of Fonseca and Pulliam's award-winning readers' advisory guide. Focusing on titles published since 2002 and broadly accessible to library users, along with a few older classics, the authors cover more than a dozen popular subgenres of horror fiction, including vampires and werewolves, techno-horror, ghosts and haunted houses, and small town horror. Lively annotations and commentary help you find the right book for your most demanding horror fans. More than 500 annotations are new to this edition. Background information on current trends, the history, and appeals of the genre are also offered, along with lists of pertinent resources.

Author Biography:

Anthony J. Fonseca is head librarian of serials/electronics resources at Nicholls State University in Louisiana and has contributed entries to Greenwood's Supernatural Literature of the World: An Encyclopedia and The Dictionary of Literary Biography: Asian American Writers. June Michele Pulliam is instructor of English and Women's and Gender Studies at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, where she also teaches a class on horror fiction. Together, they are authors of the award-winning Hooked on Horror (Libraries Unlimited, 1999) and Hooked on Horror II (Libraries Unlimited, 2003), as well as Read On Horror Fiction (LU, 2006). In addition, they coedit the on-line quarterly journal Necropsy: The Review of Horror Fiction (http://www.lsu.edu/necrofile).
Release date NZ
March 20th, 2009
Audiences
  • Primary & Secondary Education
  • Professional & Vocational
Edition
3rd edition
Interest Age
From 7 to 17 years
Pages
540
Dimensions
184x256x37
ISBN-13
9781591585404
Product ID
3975648

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