31 Days of Horror: Day 6-- Becky's Favorite Resources

I did my semi-annual update and clean up of the Horror Resources page. Access is always in the right gutter of the blog, but since we are in the midst of the season of both updating our horror collections and helping readers, I have posted it below too.

In order to also make this annotated list easier to use, I have pulled out my 5 favorite resources and put them in my order of personal preference immediately below:

• ***This is Horror***: My favorite overall horror resource- podcast, reviews, features. Just go and look for yourself.
• ***Goodreads***: That link takes you into the main page for horror. From there you can find links to many books, related genres, and tons of readers talking about the books they love. Don't tell me your horror readers won't talk to you at the desk; they are talking to you on Goodreads. Go "listen" to them.
• ***The Horror Show with Brian Keene***: a nonfiction podcast that includes weekly horror news, interviews with authors, a book club, and more. The most fun way to stay on top of everything happening in horror now.
• ***Tor.com***: The online home for the Speculative Fiction publisher. This site is full of information about horror and not just from the authors they publish.
• ***The Horror Writer's Association*** and specifically their page for Librarians.

Below, everything is in alpha order, index style and always here. Now get to work!

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Here is a list of my favorite horror resources. This list is always being updated, so please send me your favorites by leaving a comment.


Horror RA Print Titles:

• Hooked on Horror III: A Guide to Reading Interests in Horror Fiction by Anthony Fonseca and June Michelle Pulliam
• The Readers' Advisory Guide to Horror, 2nd edition by Becky Siegel Spratford 
• Read On...Horror Fiction by June Michelle Pulliam and Anthony Fonseca
• The Best Horror of the Year edited by Ellen Datlow (annual publication)
• Danse Macabre by Stephen King. This book may be old, but it is still the best book to turn to if you want to understand why people love horror.
• Paperbacks from Hell: A History or Horror Fiction from the 70s and 80s by Grady Hendrix. This is exactly what the title says, but here is my longer review.

J.T. Glover is a Humanities Research Librarian/Assistant Professor at VCU who looks at dark fiction from an academic perspective. Click here for his blog. Much of his research is very useful to our work in the public library world.

Horror Web Resources: Those marked with “***” are the ones I think are the most useful for your work with leisure readers and for collection development.

• Bookgasm: "Reading Material to Get Excited About" (direct link to horror reviews)
• Booklist: August is always the Spotlight on Horror issue. Use this link to pull up all of their horror content including the annual top 10 horror list. [For full disclosure, I am the most prolific horror reviewer at Booklist]
• BookRiot: An online community and resource on all things books. Horror gets plenty of attention here.
• Criminal Element: Mystery, Thriller, & All Things Killer: Not exclusively horror, but they cover the genre and true crime. 
• Fantastic Fiction: This is a great general fiction resources that has a lot of content on horror authors and titles. It also compiles awards won, short stories, and author web pages.
• Ginger Nuts of Horror: One of the best independent places for all things horror. UK based. 
• The Horror Fiction Review: Reviews, editorials, archives, interviews. Very thoughtful and well organized
• Horror Review: Horror Science Fiction and Fantasy Reviews, part of the JournalStone family
• ***The Horror Show with Brian Keene***: a nonfiction podcast that includes weekly horror news, interviews with authors, a book club, and more. The most fun way to stay on top of everything happening in horror now.
• ***The Horror Writer's Association*** and specifically their page for Librarians.
• Horror World: A horror community where authors and readers can connect, also part of the JournalStone family.
• Horror Zine:  An online literary journal with fiction, poetry, and artwork from morbidly creative people; monthly publication, established in 2009.
• International Thriller Writers: a professional writers association that includes many popular horror writers. They have monthly reviews, interviews, and articles. This is a great place to locate information about the more mainstream horror writers.
• io9 is an online science fiction magazine that also covers horror. 
• Rue Morgue: The online home of the well regarded and long running magazine and publisher
• ***This is Horror***: My favorite overall horror resource- podcast, reviews, features. Just go and look for yourself.
• ***Tor.com***: The online home for the Speculative Fiction publisher. This site is full of information about horror and not just from the authors they publish.
• Weird Fiction Review: "Your Non-Denominational Source for the Weird." Meaning as long as it is a bit macabre, they include it.

Horror Publishers are also a resource. Click here for my list of the best ones for libraries.