Reece Shearsmith's Horror Staples 👻
From Mr. Shearsmith's new book, Things I Took From the Dark:
As a child, there were a few horror books that become staples for me, and, as it turns out, so many of the people who became my friends in later life also had them. In case you want to seek them out and turn into me, they were (in no particular order):
- A Pictorial History of Horror Movies by Denis Gifford
- Usbourne's The World of the Unknown: Ghosts by Christopher Maynard
- Horror Films by Alan Frank
- Usbourne Guide to the Supernatural World by Eric Maple, Lynn Myring and Eliot Humberstone
- The Hamlyn Book of Horror by Daniel Farson
I think it was this particular collection of books that gave me my solid foundation in the history of horror.