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