Horror Fiction Subject Guide

Horror Fiction
A Belvedere-Tiburon Library Subject Guide

The Damnation Game by Clive Barker. 1985
A bodyguard must protect a successful industrialist from decomposing corpse-assassins stalking his employer to collect an ancient debt.
Fiction Barker

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty. 1971
A mother enlists the help of Jesuit priests to dispossess the evil spirit Pazuzu from her eleven-year-old daughter.
Fiction Blatty

Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton. 1995
Who do you call when your fanged friends are being brutally murdered? Anita Blake aka the Executioner aka Animator - the Dirty Harriet of vampire killers!
PB Fiction Hamilton

It by Stephen King. 1986
Lurking in the dark, dank sewers of a New England village is a hungry ghostly manifestation of every child's worst fears that must be destroyed before it's ghastly twenty-seven year feeding cycle returns.
Fiction King

The Annotated H.P. Lovecraft annotated and with an introduction by S.T. Joshi. 1997
Shriek in the shadow of the Dunwich Horror, howl blindly at the Mountains of Madness, and run stark raving mad from the Rats in the Walls in this annotated series of horrifying stories from the master tale-spinner of the supernatural.
Fiction Lovecraft

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. 1954
Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth...but he is not alone.
Fiction Matheson

Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. 1995
Lurking in the dark corridors of the American Museum of Natural History is an ancient being that prefers human brains for breakfast!
Fiction Preston

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.1818.
Classic horror tale of a young scientist playing at creating a human being yet misunderstanding the pain and misery experienced by his monster who inevitably seeks murderous revenge.
Classics Shelley

Dracula by Bram Stoker. 1897
Gallop over the Borgo Pass with the Children of the Night, escape from the starry heights of Castle Dracula, and race against the Devil to destroy the Prince of Darkness in this Gothic masterpiece of horror.
Fiction Stoker