Horror fiction is a well-represented genre in the John Trigg Ester Library's collections, both in the film and literature collections. Horror has its roots in folklore, myth, and religion, and often reflects, through metaphor, the larger fears of society.
So what can we make of the ever-increasing popularity of zombie-themed fiction? What metaphors does it play on? What does it mean that zombies have been gradually increasing their lurch speed? Hmmm. Come find out—at the library!
Authors of horror fiction represented at the JTEL include:
- Ian Banks
- Clive Barker (Weaveworld, Imajica, etc.)
- Ambrose Bierce
- Algernon Blackwood
- Ray Bradbury
- Ramsey Campbell
- Roald Dahl
- Ted Dekker
- August Derleth
- Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol, Tale of Two Cities, The Pickwick Papers, etc.)
- Dennis Etchison
- William Faulkner
- Neil Gaiman
- Nikolai Gogol
- Laurell K. Hamilton
- David G. Hartwell
- Shirley Jackson
- Henry James
- Stephen King (Desolation, the Gunslinger series, Christine, etc.)
- Dean Koonz (Midnight, Fear Nothing, etc.)
- Tanith Lee
- Fritz Leiber
- H.P. Lovecraft
- Brian Lumley
- George R.R. Martin
- Chuck Palahniuk
- James Patterson
- Edgar Allen Poe (collected works)
- Anne Rice (Interview with a Vampire, Queen of the Damned, etc.)
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Frankenstein)
- Dan Simmons
- S.P. Somtow
- R.L. Stine
- Bram Stoker
- Peter Straum
- Whitley Strieber
- F. Paul Wilson
- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
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