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    • The Science of Horror Films
    • By: Nina Nesseth
    • Narrated by: Raquel Beattie
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 07-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Horror films promise an experience: fear. But how exactly do filmmakers pull this off? There's more to it than just loud noises and creepy images. With the affection of a horror fan and the analysis of a scientist, Nesseth explains how audiences engage horror with their brains and bodies....

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    • The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror
    • By: W. Scott Poole
    • Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 302 ratings
    • Historian and Bram Stoker Award nominee W. Scott Poole traces the confluence of history, technology, and art that gave us modern horror films and literature....

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    • A Coast-to-Coast Tour of the Most Notorious Houses of Homicide
    • By: Steve Lehto
    • Narrated by: Barry Press
    • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 384 ratings
    • There are places in the United States of America where violent acts of bloodshed have occurred. Years may pass, but the mark of death remains. They are known as Murder Houses....

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    • Gender in the Modern Horror Film
    • By: Carol J. Clover
    • Narrated by: Eva Wilhelm
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • From its first publication in 1992, Men, Women, and Chain Saws has offered a groundbreaking perspective on the creativity and influence of horror cinema since the mid-1970s....

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    • By: Carlos Castaneda
    • Narrated by: Luis Moreno
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 143 ratings
    • Carlos Castaneda takes the listener into the very heart of sorcery, challenging both imagination and reason, shaking the very foundations of our belief in what is “natural” and “logical”....

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    • By: Stephen Graham Jones
    • Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
    • Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4,158 ratings
    • From New York Times best-selling author Stephen Graham Jones comes a novel that is equal parts psychological horror and cutting social commentary on identity politics and the American-Indian experience....

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    • How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror
    • By: Jason Zinoman
    • Narrated by: Pete Larkin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 300 ratings
    • While Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and Francis Ford Coppola were making their first classic movies, a parallel universe of directors gave birth to the modern horror film....

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    • Tales for Spooky Season
    • By: R. Saint Claire
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A Haunted Collection of Scary Stories by R. Saint Claire Experience the thrill of haunted bike trails, mysterious midnight parties, vengeful ...

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    • All the Skills to Dodge the Kills
    • By: Seth Grahame-Smith
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 827 ratings
    • Seth Grahame-Smith delivers the definitive, essential guide to making it through a horror movie in one piece....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Darryl Jones
    • Narrated by: Gareth Richards
    • Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Analyzing the way in which horror has been used throughout history to articulate the fears and taboos of the current generation, Darryl Jones considers the continuing evolution of the genre today....

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    • A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond
    • By: Jeremy Dauber
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Dauber
    • Length: 16 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • From the acclaimed author of American Comics and Jewish Comedy comes a highly entertaining book that examines the American obsession with horror—and what it tells us about ourselves.

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    • One Moviegoer’s Love Affair with Masked Maniacs, Frightened Virgins, and the Living Dead…
    • By: Adam Rockoff
    • Narrated by: R.C. Bray
    • Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • The Horror of It All is a memoir from the front lines of the industry that dissects (and occasionally defends) the hugely popular phenomenon of scary movies....

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    • Horror of Philosophy, Volume 1
    • By: Eugene Thacker
    • Narrated by: Robert Slade
    • Series: Horror of Philosophy, Book 1
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • The world is increasingly unthinkable, a world of planetary disasters, emerging pandemics, and the looming threat of extinction. In this book, Eugene Thacker suggests that we look to the genre of horror as offering a way of thinking about the unthinkable world....

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    • By: Stephen Graham Jones
    • Narrated by: Cara Gee
    • Series: The Indian Lake Trilogy, Book 1
    • Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,427 ratings
    • Alma Katsu calls My Heart Is a Chainsaw “a homage to slasher films that also manages to defy and transcend genre.” On the surface is a story of murder in small-town America. But beneath is its beating heart....

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    • A True Story of Hope, Horror, and an Enduring Human Spirit
    • By: Matt Birkbeck
    • Narrated by: Skye Borgman
    • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 203 ratings
    • Sharon Marshall was a brilliant and beautiful student whose future was filled with promise—until her murderous, fugitive father drew her into a lifetime of deception that became one of the most baffling cases in the annals of American true crime.

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    • Modern Horror and the Origins of American Empire
    • By: W. Scott Poole
    • Narrated by: Enrique McGavin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • The panoramic story of how the horror genre transformed into one of the most incisive critiques of unchecked American imperial power....

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    • Stories
    • By: Mariana Enriquez, Megan McDowell - translator
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Soler
    • Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 124 ratings
    • Written against the backdrop of contemporary Argentina, and with a resounding tenderness toward those in pain, in fear, and in limbo, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed is Mariana Enriquez at her most sophisticated, and most chilling....

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    • Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics
    • By: Tim Harford
    • Narrated by: Tim Harford
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 733 ratings
    • From “one of the great (greatest?) contemporary popular writers on economics” (Tyler Cowen) comes a smart, lively, and encouraging rethinking of how to use statistics....

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    • Esoteric Classics: Occult Fiction
    • By: Arthur Machen
    • Narrated by: Shea Taylor
    • Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 163 ratings
    • Dr. Raymond's ultimate goal is to devise a way to open the mind of man so that he may experience all the world has to offer. He calls this "seeing the great god Pan"....

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