2024 BITF Horror Reading Challenge - hosted by thaatswhatsheread

Creepy Non-Fiction
Try a book about morbid subject material, a biography of a prominent horror figure,  a book looking at horror films, or whatever floats your boat. 
All books added
Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film by Carol J. Clover

Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film

Carol J. Clover

275 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction feminism horror dark slow-paced
Danse Macabre by Stephen King

Danse Macabre

Stephen King

400 pages • first pub 1981 (editions)

nonfiction horror dark informative slow-paced
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

Caitlin Doughty

7 hours, 45 minutes • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction memoir funny informative reflective medium-paced
Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear by Margee Kerr

Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear

Margee Kerr

7 hours, 14 minutes • first pub 2015 (editions) user-added

nonfiction horror psychology science informative mysterious slow-paced
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

Ruth Franklin

624 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction biography informative reflective medium-paced
101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered by Sadie Hartmann

101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered

Sadie Hartmann

192 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction horror reference informative fast-paced
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

In Cold Blood

Truman Capote

343 pages • first pub 1965 (editions)

nonfiction classics true crime dark mysterious tense slow-paced
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival by Joe Simpson

Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival

Joe Simpson

216 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction memoir travel adventurous inspiring tense medium-paced
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

David Grann

8 hours, 28 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime adventurous dark informative medium-paced
Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident by Donnie Eichar

Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident

Donnie Eichar

288 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history mystery adventurous informative mysterious medium-paced