Spooky reading tips for Halloween

Halloween is almost here – check out the library’s reading tips on horror!

Halloween is quickly approaching, making horror a highly topical genre. You can find a lot of research on horror from different fields of study in the library's collections.  

The library’s recommendations view horror especially from the perspectives of gender, sexuality, class and race. All of the works selected here are available as e-books, which means you can access them also off-campus with your University of Helsinki user account.

You can find more information on using electronic resources on the library website. 

At the end you'll also find a few classics of horror fiction as new editions.  

Horror studies

All Around Monstrous
Jacob, Frank; Bernardi, Verena, 2019

Gender and Contemporary Horror in Comics, Games and Transmedia
Gerrard, Steven; Holland, Samantha; Shail, Robert, 2019

Gender and Contemporary Horror in Film
Gerrard, Steven; Holland, Samantha; Shail, Robert, 2019

Gender and Contemporary Horror in Television
Gerrard, Steven; Holland, Samantha; Shail, Robert, 2019

Gender in the Vampire Narrative
Hobson, Amanda, 2016

I'm Buffy and You're History: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Contemporary Feminism
Pender, Patricia, 2016

The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic
Bloom, Clive, 2020

Searching for Sycorax: Black Women's Hauntings of Contemporary Horror
Brooks, Kinitra D., 2017

The Witch and the Hysteric : The Monstrous Medieval in Benjamin Christensen's Häxan
Doty, Alexander; Ingham, Patricia, 2014  

Horror fiction classics

Carmilla: A Critical Edition 
Fanu, Joseph Sheridan Le; Kathleen Costello-Sullivan, 2013

Dracula
Stoker, Bram, 2011

Frankenstein : annotated for scientists, engineers, and creators of all kinds
Shelley, Mary et al, 2017