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  2. William F. Nolan - Wikipedia

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    William Francis Nolan (March 6, 1928 – July 15, 2021) was an American author who wrote hundreds of stories in the science fiction, fantasy, horror, and crime fiction genres. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Career

  3. Horror fiction - Wikipedia

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    Science fiction historian Darrell Schweitzer has stated, "In the simplest sense, a horror story is one that scares us" and "the true horror story requires a sense of evil, not in necessarily in a theological sense; but the menaces must be truly menacing, life-destroying, and antithetical to happiness."

  4. Paperbacks from Hell - Wikipedia

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    Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of ‘70s and ‘80s Horror Fiction is a 2017 non-fiction book by American writer Grady Hendrix. It was first published by Quirk Books on September 19, 2017 in print and ebook. An audiobook release by Blackstone Audio followed on January 9, 2018.

  5. Grady Hendrix - Wikipedia

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    Grady then wrote My Best Friend's Exorcism (2016) and the acclaimed non-fiction study Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of ’70s and ’80s Horror Fiction (2017). [11] He also co-wrote the 2017 motion picture Mohawk with director Ted Geoghegan [ 12 ] and the spec script for the horror comedy film Satanic Panic , which was acquired and ...

  6. Frank Tallis - Wikipedia

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    Frank Tallis (born 1 September 1958) is an English author and clinical psychologist, whose area of expertise is obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). He has written crime novels, including the collection of novels known as the Liebermann Papers, for which he has received several awards, is an essayist, and – under the name of F.R. Tallis — has written horror fiction.

  7. J. N. Williamson - Wikipedia

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    Horror, fantasy, science fiction, gothic, dark fantasy Gerald "Jerry" Neal Williamson (April 17, 1932 – December 8, 2005) was an American horror writer and editor known under the name J. N. Williamson .

  8. Ghost story - Wikipedia

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    It is a form of supernatural fiction and specifically of weird fiction, and is often a horror story. While ghost stories are often explicitly meant to scare, they have been written to serve all sorts of purposes, from comedy to morality tales. Ghosts often appear in the narrative as sentinels or prophets of things to come. [1]

  9. An Illustrated History of the Horror Film - Wikipedia

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    Chapter 6 discusses Val Lewton's horror films and Dead of Night. Chapter 7 examines many science fiction films of the 1950s-1960s, particularly horrific ones that have to do with alien invasion, world destruction, and/or space travel. Chapter 8 looks at numerous kinds of horror and science fiction films of the 1950s-1960s from all over the world.