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The Horror Readers' Advisory
Becky Siegel Spratford
Tammy Hennigh Clausen
其他書名
The Librarian's Guide to Vampires, Killer Tomatoes, and Haunted Houses
出版
American Library Association
, 2004
主題
Language Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science / Collection Development
Literary Criticism / Books & Reading
Reference / Bibliographies & Indexes
ISBN
0838908713
9780838908716
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Byj9jwP4O5oC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
It's a dark and scary world. Pans are tabid. Blood, guts, and gore are the norm. Welcome to the horror genre. Horror classics have been scaring people for years. Nowadays, who doesn't know about Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Dean Koontz? Profiled in a special section, the Big Three have turned horror into best-sellers. For all the horror fans that haunt your library, this is the must-have guide. Readers' advisors and reference librarians will appreciate the key tools provided to expand upon this genre, including listings of top books, authors, and award winners within eleven horror subgenres - like mummies, biomedical, monsters, and splatterpunk. Clear descriptions of characteristics within subgenres are provided throughout. To further help you engage new renders, expert horror mavens Spratford and Clausen draw a savvy connection between film and horror as a potent reminder that the scariest movies have been adapted from novels. Their classic and contemporary recommendations like Rebecca, The Shining, and Rosemary's Baby reinforce activities between readers' advisors and library programming and open up the (cellar) door for further patron involvement. Readers' advisors and referen