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Creepy Truths!

Some creepy Nonfiction for your Halloween Reading List!

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21 items

  • Your Favorite Scary Movie

    How the Scream Films Rewrote the Rules of Horror

    Cullins, Ashley,
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Plume, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC [2025]
  • Scream With Me

    Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism (1968-1980)

    Johnson, Eleanor
    eAudiobook, 2025Simon & Schuster Audio, 2025
  • The Conjuring of America

    Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women's Magic

    Stewart, Lindsey
    eAudiobook, 2025Hachette Audio, 2025
  • American Spirits

    the Famous Fox Sisters and the Mysterious Fad That Haunted a Nation

    Rosenstock, Barb,
    Book, 2025New York : Calkins Creek, [2025]
  • Spirit Sleuths

    How Magicians and Detectives Exposed the Ghost Hoaxes

    Jarrow, Gail,
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers, 2024.
  • Nightmare Fuel

    the Science of Horror Films

    Nesseth, Nina,
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Nightfire, 2022.
  • Monsters on the Couch

    the Real Psychological Disorders Behind Your Favorite Horror Movies

    Sharpless, Brian A.,
    Book, 2024Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2024]
  • Death in the Jungle

    Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown

    Fleming, Candace
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Anne Schwartz Books, [2025]
  • Dark Archives

    a Librarian's Investigation Into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

    Rosenbloom, Megan, 1981-
    Book, 2020New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
  • Cursed Objects

    Strange but True Stories of the World's Most Infamous Items

    Ocker, J. W.
    Book, 2020Philadelphia : Quirk Books, [2020]
  • Ghostland

    An American History in Haunted Places

    Dickey, Colin,
    Book, 2016New York, New York : Viking, [2016]
  • It Came from the Closet

    Queer Reflections on Horror

    eBook, 2022The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2022
  • Spooky Lakes

    25 Strange and Mysterious Lakes That Dot Our Planet

    Rutherford, Geo,
    Book, 2024New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2024.