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Emily has a PhD in English from the University of Southern Mississippi, MS, and she has an MFA in Creative Writing from GCSU in Milledgeville, GA, home of Flannery O’Connor. She spends her free time reading, watching horror movies and musicals, cuddling cats, Instagramming pictures of cats, and blogging/podcasting about books with the ladies over at #BookSquadGoals (www.booksquadgoals.com). She can be reached at emily.ecm@gmail.com.
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Do you love scary movies just as much as–or even more than–you love scary books? Horror movie buffs, August is going to be a big book month for you.
Two of the biggest horror movie franchises are getting the book treatment in the coming weeks. So if you’ve ever wanted to know everything about your favorite horror movies, make sure to add these books to your TBR.
You Can’t Kill the Boogeyman: The Ongoing Halloween Saga―13 Movies and Counting by Wayne Byrne (Bloomsbury, August 7)
The Halloween slasher film franchise has been around since 1978 and consists of 13 films. Now, we’re getting a new book exploring the themes, development, and impact of Halloween.
Author Wayne Byrne interviews several directors, screenwriters, cinematographers, composers, and actors from the Halloween films, including Gloria Gifford, Marianne Hagan, and Brad Loree, Tommy Lee Wallace, Dwight H. Little, Dominique Othenin-Girard, Dean Cundey, Alan Howarth, and more, to get the inside scoop on one of the most well-known horror franchises.
Your Favorite Scary Movie: How the Scream Films Rewrote the Rules of Horror by Ashley Cullins (Plume, August 19)
What’s your favorite scary movie? If it’s Scream, then you have to read this book from entertainment journalist Ashley Cullins.
Through behind-the-scenes intel and insights from the cast and crew of all seven movies from the Scream movie franchise, Cullins explores the cultural impact of these iconic horror films. This book includes new and exclusive interviews with Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Kevin Williamson, Skeet Ulrich, Matthew Lillard, Jack Quaid, Parker Posey, Hayden Panettiere, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding, Radio Silence, and Roger L. Jackson.
Horror fans looking to read more diversely: note that the two aforementioned books are by white authors. Here are some of our favorite 2025 horror books by BIPOC authors.
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