Genre: Horror Fiction

Read one early, middle, and contemporary work. Ask yourself how the genre has developed (changed/stayed the same) over time. Choose from among these titles or suggest one to me:

Early

• Edgar Allan Poe, short stories
• Ambrose Bierce, short stories

Middle

• H. P. Lovecraft, short stories
• The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
• Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo

Contemporary

• Salem's Lot, The Green Mile, Dolores Claiborne, It, Pet Sematary, Stephen King
• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, Erik Larson
  (Note: this work is nonfiction.)
• The Silence of the Lambs: A Novel, Thomas Harris
• The Bottoms, Joe R. Lansdale
• Mr. X, In the Night Room, Lost Boy, Lost Girl, Magic Terror: Seven Tales, Peter Straub