TY - BOOK AU - Spratford,Becky Siegel TI - Readers’ Advisory Guide to Horror, Second Edition SN - 9780838994498 AV - Z711.5 -- .S68 2012eb U1 - 026/.80883 PY - 2013/// CY - Chicago PB - American Library Association KW - Fiction in libraries -- United States KW - Horror tales, American -- Bibliography KW - Horror tales, English -- Bibliography KW - Libraries -- United States -- Special collections -- Horror tales KW - Readers' advisory services -- United States KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Series Introduction -- Preface: Why We Need Horror -- Acknowledgments -- 1. A BRIEF HISTORY OF HORROR: How the Past Haunts the Present -- 2. THE APPEAL OF HORROR: Feel the Fear, Find the Readers -- 3. HORROR 101: A Crash Course in Today's Tales of Terror -- 4. THE CLASSICS: Time-Tested Tales of Terror -- 5. GHOSTS AND HAUNTED HOUSES: Home, Scream Home -- 6. VAMPIRES: Books with Bite -- 7. ZOMBIES: Follow the Walking Dead -- 8. SHAPE-SHIFTERS: Nature Morphs into Something Terrifying -- 9. MONSTERS AND ANCIENT EVIL: Cthulhu Comes Calling -- 10. WITCHES AND THE OCCULT: Double, Double, Toil and Trouble -- 11. SATAN AND DEMONIC POSSESSION: The Devil Inside -- 12. COMIC HORROR: Laughing in the Face of Fear -- 13. MOVING BEYOND THE HAUNTED HOUSE: Whole Collection Options for Horror Readers -- 14. SOWING THE SEEDS OF FEAR: Horror Resources and Marketing -- Bibliography -- Index N2 - As both an introductory guide for librarians just dipping their toes into the brackish water of scary fiction, as well as a fount of new ideas for horror-aware reference staff, Spratford's book is infernally appropriate UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/buse-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1188829 ER -