Starting back to work today and spending most of the day replying to email, but there is a lot of excitement on the horizon here on the blog, especially as the Spooky Season approaches.
Speaking of, this is also the month that my book will be coming out. See the top of this blog for a coupon and click here to pre-order it.
Over on the Horror Blog, my last two posts of bonus book content have gone up while I was on vacation and today.
So while I catch up on emails [a whole lot of you want and need training...yay!], I wanted to remind everyone that the page of bonus annotations to supplement the Third Edition of the Readers' Advisory Guide to Horror is now complete. This is a resource in and of itself, but paired with the new book, it is even better. Click here to access it. But it can also always be found in the right gutter of the Horror Blog under the book's cover.
Your Halloween prep should begin in earnest now. Start checking your collections, ordering books you may have missed, and planning your displays. I would get everything set to run by September 1.
And, the August issue of Booklist is about to drop with the spotlight on Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror with many reviews by me and a feature article I worked on with Susan Maguire. I am the MOST excited about that one as it is fun to read and will help you to help readers immediately.
Here is the text of that Bonus Content Page below, but clicking here will get you to it also:
Third Edition Bonus Content: More Subgenre Annotations [Updated August 2021]
When I was writing the Third Edition of the Readers' Advisory Guide to Horror, I originally had over 20 annotated choices per subgenre appearing in chapter 4-13. However, for word count sake, I had to reduce each lists to a well packaged dozen. Obviously making the cuts was hard, but I was able to include the tittles of those deleted annotations in an appendix at the end of the book with a promise that the annotations would run here on the blog.
Each list was posted on the blog over a series of weeks to promote the release of the book in the summer of 2021. This page is the official home of those annotated lists so people can find them as they encounter the blog.
In the book, my top three choices in each list are marked to denote Becky's Picks. I will also do that in these lists to give you a place to begin as you suggest. Just like the titles in the print book, every title appearing here is a great options for all public libraries. You can use these lists for collection development, displays, lists, and suggestions. Each subgenre has an essay discussing its history and appeal in the book which you can order here. And if you use the code RGH21 at check out you get $5 off!
- Chapter 4: Ghosts and Haunted Houses
- Chapter 5: Vampire Menace
- Chapter 6: Zombies
- Chapter 7: Witches, Curses, and the Occult
- Chapter 8: Monsters and Ancient Evil
- Chapter 9: Nature Gone Wild
- Chapter 10: Satan and Demonic Possession
- Chapter 11: Psychological Horror
- Chapter 12: Lovecraftian and Cosmic Horror
- Chapter 13: Body Horror
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