Hooked on Horror III

Anthony J. Fonseca is head librarian of serials/electronics resources at Nicholls State University in Louisiana and has contributed entries to Greenwood's Supernatural Literature of the World: An Encyclopedia and The Dictionary of Literary Biography: Asian American Writers.June Michele Pulliam is instructor of English and Women's and Gender Studies at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, where she also teaches a class on horror fiction. Together, they are authors of the award-winning Hooked on Horror (Libraries Unlimited, 1999) and Hooked on Horror II (Libraries Unlimited, 2003), as well as Read On Horror Fiction (LU, 2006). In addition, they coedit the on-line quarterly journal Necropsy: The Review of Horror Fiction (http://www.lsu.edu/necrofile).

In this readers' advisory guide for librarians, Fonseca, a librarian at Nicholls State U., and Pulliam (English and women's and gender studies, Louisiana State U., Baton Rouge) provide an annotated bibliography of horror novels, series, short story collections, and anthologies that describes rather than evaluates titles. It focuses on readily available titles published from 2003 to 2008, as well as classic works, in subgenres such as vampires and werewolves, techno- horror, ghosts and haunted houses, telekinesis and hypnosis, and ecological, psychological, comic, and smalltown horror. It includes publication information and subjects. All works by eight of the most popular authors—Robert Bloch, Ramsey Campbell,Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Graham Masterton, Richard Matheson, Anne Rice, and Peter Straub—are included. Reference books, books of criticism, and lists of award winners are included, as well as a sampling of films. New to this edition are about 500 annotations, more classic texts and films, and now similar titles are listed at the end of every entry.