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It's a dark and scary world. Pans are tabid. Blood, guts, and gore are the norm. Welcome to the horror genre. Horror classics have been scaring people for years. Nowadays, who doesn't know about Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Dean Koontz? Profiled in a special section, the Big Three have turned horror into best-sellers. For all the horror fans that haunt your library, this is the must-have guide. Readers' advisors and reference librarians will appreciate the key tools provided to expand upon this genre, including listings of top books, authors, and award winners within eleven horror subgenres - like mummies, biomedical, monsters, and splatterpunk. Clear descriptions of characteristics within subgenres are provided throughout. To further help you engage new renders, expert horror mavens Spratford and Clausen draw a savvy connection between film and horror as a potent reminder that the scariest movies have been adapted from novels. Their classic and contemporary recommendations like Rebecca, The Shining, and Rosemary's Baby reinforce activities between readers' advisors and library programming and open up the (cellar) door for further patron involvement. Readers' advisors and referen
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Miguel Delgadillo
reviewed The Horror Readers' Advisory: The Librarian's Guide to Vampires, Killer Tomatoes, and Haunted Houses on March 06, 2013
The Horror Readers' Advisory: The Librarian's Guide to Vampires, Killer Tomatoes, and Haunted Houses
This is a pretty succinct overview of the horror genre and I would probably consider it useful overall. The breaking down of subgenres was great, despite some overlap and unclean breaks. It does seem to me though that the authors had a few authors they generally stuck to, and while it's true that Anne Rice might be a safe bet for vampires or another author may be good for ghost stories, I'd be a little more interested in seeing some authors that aren't recommended as frequently. I was also a little surprised to see them break down everything pre-Carrie into a singular "classics" section. Are The Castle of Otranto and Rebecca both classics? Well sure, but they're classics in rather different ways. There is a lot of 18th and 19th century horror out there that deserves its own section from the 20th century (which also deserves some specialized attention). I know they were just trying to separate "classics" from modern works, but it worked out a bit awkwardly.
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