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The Book of Lists: Horror
enlarge	Authors: Amy Wallace, Del Howison Publisher: HarperCollins e-books Category: EBooks List Price: ~~$11.95~~ Buy New: $9.56 You Save: $2.39 (20%) Rating: 7 reviews Sales Rank: 16417 Format: Kindle Book Media: Kindle Edition Pages: 432 Number Of Items: 1 Dewey Decimal Number: 700.4164 ASIN: B001F76U1A Publication Date: September 3, 2008 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours


Editorial Reviews: Product Description The phenomenally popular Book of Lists series has sold millions of copies from coast to coast, enthralling trivia aficionados with fascinating infobits about simply everything! Now the latest edition turns an evil eye toward the strange, the blood-curdling, and the macabre with spine-tingling fun facts from the dark side of entertainment. Chock-full of creepy information from the netherworlds of movies, TV, literature, video games, comic books, and graphic novels, The Book of Lists: Horror offers a blood-feast of forbidden knowledge that horror fans are hungry to devour, including: Stephen King's Ten Favorite Horror Novels or Short Stories -- learn what scares the master! Top Six Grossing Horror Movies of All Time in the United States -- which big shocks translated into big bucks? Top Ten Horror-Themed Rock 'n' Roll Songs -- maybe it is 'devil's music' after all! And much, much more! Drawing on its authors' extensive knowledge and contributions from the (living) legends and greatest names in the horror and dark fantasy genres, The Book of Lists: Horror is a scream -- an irresistible compendium of all things mysterious, terrifying, and gory . . . and so entertaining, it's scary!

Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews... A GREAT RESOURCE AND GREAT FUN! September 17, 2008 Peter J. Giglio 3 out of 3 found this review helpful The Book of Lists: Horror is the latest addition to the Book of Lists series that has spanned four decades. This time Amy Wallace, Book of Lists veteran and daughter of the legendary Irving Wallace, receives a strong assist from Scott Bradley and Del Howison, two experts in all things horror. The result is very special! If you love lists, you will not be disappointed. If you love horror in films, books, music, poetry and art, you will not be disappointed. If you want to celebrate your love of the macabre, then look no further. If you want to expand your list of movies to watch and books to read, then you will find this book to be an amazing resource. The book is filled with fun facts, great lists (be sure to check out James Gunn's NINETEEN FAVORITE REASONS GOD MADE HUMANS SO SQUISHY on page 38), great style (I love that Chapter 2: The Literature of Dread, starts with 20 great openings in horror fiction and closes with 20 great endings in horror fiction) and a fantastic fan section (do not miss Jim Gerlach's list on page 405). This tome does a wonderful job of expanding the scope of horror, particularly with Jack Ketchum's TEN BEST HORROR NOVELS THAT DON'T CALL THEMSELVES HORROR NOVELS and Ramsey Campbell's THIRTEEN NOVELS ON THE EDGE OF HORROR. Bentley Little has a great list dealing with one hit wonders although I would disagree with his contention that MAGIC was William Goldman's only horror novel. But that's part of the greatness of this book - it offers so many viewpoints, that it is likely to start some arguments! The quality of contributors is amazing, particularly in the field of literature. The book is creative, fun-loving, well organized, informative and well written. Add this one to your shelves today! If you love the horror genre and trivia then this book is for you September 23, 2008 A. Gragg (ohio) 3 out of 3 found this review helpful I am a huge fan of the horror genre and lists so i knew i would love this book. It is interesting on many levels. Many familiar faces of the genre created lists in the book that are both entertaining and informative. I guarantee you will be making lists of your own after reading this book with movies, books, or music that sound appealing to you. It is also great to hear what people involved with the genre think. All the lists are given generous description so even the most diehard genre fans will learn something new. I highly recommend this book, whether you are a fan of the horror genre itself, a lover of lists, or you simply enjoy entertainment related trivia. Just trust me this book is for YOU! Loving it! October 11, 2008 Peter Harrison (TAMPA EFF ELL A) 2 out of 2 found this review helpful love books of lists, love horror genre....mix 'em together and you get a winner! FIVE HUGE STARS! a walking-like-it's-talking checklist tour of sharp minds and multimedia curios for the horror curious September 21, 2008 Kent Allard (US - SoCal Megalops) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful Darkness abates in THE BOOK OF LISTS: HORROR ... and creative light shines. Thumbing through this book tonight, back from the release party at Dark Delicacies earlier today, I like it. I dig this book. Dig it deep and try to bury it ... yet it still rises. Beyond the editors' choice picks, the deft contributors rise sublime. Beyond ephemera, this volume renders a needful and quirky historical pop document for an oft maligned genre. Required reading for the horror buff and a walking-like-it's-talking checklist tour of sharp minds and multimedia curios for the horror curious. THE BOOK OF LISTS: HORROR scents blood, and begs a second volume. Get some. A list about the Book of Lists - Horror November 9, 2008 mrliteral 1 out of 1 found this review helpful The world is a complicated place, and one of the ways we try to make order out of chaos is by dividing things into lists. Even with Amazon, users are exposed to myriad lists: not merely the best seller lists, but also heaps of lists by customers who create rosters of books, movies or other items organized in a particular fashion. Certainly the list has been around for a long time, but it really became a phenomenon with The Book of Lists and its successors. One of the newest of these books is The Book of Lists: Horror, and following its format, I present my review in list form. SECTIONS OF THE BOOK: 1. Movies ("Fear on the Silver Screen): This section, taking up just over half of the book, is filled with lists created by various people associated with the horror genre. Among other lists, there are the horror films that most influenced Ray Bradbury's youth; the five common tactical errors made in horror films (e.g., confirm your kills); ten movie fates worse than death; and the top ten horror movie surgical blunders. Some of the lists are weak, others are interesting, and no doubt you will find your own movies that fit in a list (for example, I would include one character's fate in the movie Wolf Creek to fit into the "worse than death" list). The real strength of this section is that it can give you a number of ideas for new movies to see. 2. Books ("The Literature of Dread"): This section takes up another quarter of the book and many of the same comments apply as with the movies. Of course, for every horror movie (using the very loose definition of horror in this book), there are probably a dozen books, so there is even a greater chance that the lists will neglect some novel or story. When we get a list of five horror novels set in Venice, you can tell that this section may be stretched a little further than needed. 3. Music ("A Little Nightmare Music"): This section is brief and appropriately so. And there's no reference to Warren Zevon's Werewolves of London. 4. Miscellaneous ("A Miscellany of Terrors"): This grab bag is the largest of the minor (last three) sections. Comic books, TV horror hosts (such as Vampira) and even drinks are here (Zombie or Bloody Mary, anyone?). 5. Fan Submitted Lists ("Shrieks from the Gallery"): This section has lists from non-pros, but even the ones from kids sometimes surpass the ones elsewhere in the book. The nicest list here includes a bunch of old pulp covers; they're fun to look at, even if the pictures are a bit small. Overall, this is the literary equivalent of a bag of potato chips. Even if not every list is spectacular, you can't stop with just one. There may not be a lot of nutritional value, but even a guilty pleasure is a pleasure nonetheless.