Horror Resources (Updated 10.19)

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:

• The Readers' Advisory Guide to Horror, 2nd edition by Becky Siegel Spratford
• 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.

Horror Web Resources: By no means is this a comprehensive list of every horror resource available; rather this list focuses on the resources that will be the most relevant to you, the general library worker, to use to help leisure readers, from those who are hardcore horror fans to those who want to give the genre a try and everyone in between. Those marked with “***” are the ones I think are the most useful for your work with leisure readers and for collection development.

• 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.
• 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. 
• ***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 Fiction Review: Reviews, editorials, archives, interviews. Very thoughtful and well organized
• ***Horror Hub***: Run by Night Worms, this is a crowd sourced calendar, a one stop shop for horror book release dates and events. Click here for a full post I wrote about this resource.
• ***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.
• See also their monthly Seers Table monthly column by the diverse works inclusion committee. 
• ***Ladies of Horror Fiction***: The best place to find reviews and a directory of women in horror. Multi-platform too.
• ***Nightmare Magazine's "The H Word" Column***: a monthly column by writers about the genre. Click here for more by me about this column.
• ***The Seers Table***: The Horror Writers Association's column by the Diverse Works inclusion committee that presents a monthly list of women, authors of color, and LGTBQ horror writers that you should know about, read, and collect for your libraries.
• ***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.

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

And, for access to all of the Summer Scares resources, lists, and vetted titles click here for its page.