VAMPIRES

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VAMPIRES IN OUTER SPACE?
Exploring the Supernatural in Fiction Genre
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• Horror is Small and Warm and Damp
• And Wears Your Mothers Dresses
• Robert Myles Hershons On Horror
• Salt Lake County Librarians
• Joan Christensen
• Judy Yaka
• Darlene Dineen

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• DID YOU KNOW
• Horror is one of the most pervasive literary
  types?
• Elements of horror can be found in almost every
  genre including mainstream, literary, science
  fiction, romance, thrillers, and
  mystery/suspense.

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WHAT IS HORROR?

• a painful and intense fear, dread, or dismay -
  Websters Collegiate Dictionary
• "Horror is that which cannot be made safe --
  evolving, ever-changing -- because it is about
  our relentless need to confront the unknown, the
  unknowable, and the emotion we experience when in
  its thrall." .
• Douglas Winter

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BRIEF HISTORY OF HORROR

• 1900 - 1930 Silent Fear.
• 1930-1940 Classic Creations
• 1940-1950 Chills and Chuckles...
• 1950-1960 Sci-fi, B-Movies and Hammer Horror
• 1960 1970 Psycho's and Zombies
• 1970-1980 The Birth of the Slasher
• 1980-1990 Modern Horror Begins
• 1990- 2000 Scream until you like it
• http//www.horrorseek.com/horror/realm/history.htm

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HORRORS APPEAL

• Adrenaline rush
• Attracted biologically to threats
• Safe way of exploring the unknown

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Special Guest Jeff Strand
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MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE

• Novelty in a suspenseful plot

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APPEAL

• Believability

• The Puzzle

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TYPES OF HORROR IN MYSTERIES

• PHYSICAL OR MENTAL ABUSE
• PARANORMAL

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PHYSICAL OR MENTAL ABUSE TITLES / AUTHORS
James Ellroy
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PHYSICAL OR MENTAL ABUSE TITLES / AUTHORS
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PHYSICAL OR MENTAL ABUSE TITLES / AUTHORS
RAYMOND CHANDLER
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PHYSICAL OR MENTAL ABUSE TITLES / AUTHORS
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MINOR

• Precognitive Feeling
• Religious or Cultural Belief
• Psychic of the Detective

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MAJOR

• Paranormal element plays an equal part of the
  story

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MAJOR
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MAJOR
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GENREBLENDING OF TWO GENRESMYSTERY AND
ROMANCE
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GOTHIC TITLES / AUTHORS
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Paranormal Romantic Suspense
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Heather Graham
Newest
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PARANORMAL ROMANCE
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APPEAL

• Relationship
• Alpha Male
• Happily ever after
• Safe response to womans needs and desires,
  feelings and fantasies
• Predictability of the story
• Fascination to the Magical
• Horror fear factor is deemphasized

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Subgenres
Psychic
Gothic
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PSYCHIC FICTION TITLES / AUTHOR
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GHOSTS
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FANTASY

• The Impossible is Possible Magic, supernatural
  powers or supernatural creatures
• Setting Must be consistent within the story
• Plot Always tells a tale (Cinderella to Beowulf
  to Stephen Donaldson)

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DARK FANTASY LINKED TO HORROR

• Both genres scare or terrify
• Difference is magic and the conflict between
  good and evil
• May overlap with horror

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DARK FANTASY
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URBAN FANTASY

• Set in contemporary, real-world, urban settings
  where something strange and otherworldly is
  lurking be it vampires, werewolves, faeries or
  something else.

Redefining itself as a genre
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URBAN FANTASY

• Strong heroines finding their destinies and
  saving the world (Buffy the Vampire effect)
• Genre blending of action, adventure, mystery and
  fantasy
• Crossover appeal to Paranormal Romance Readers
• Popular with adults in their 20s

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URBAN FANTASY
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URBAN FANTASY
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URBAN FANTASY
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YF HORROR Beyond Pike, Stine KingExploring
the Paranormal
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Appeal Factors for Teens

• GORE FACTOR - Thirst for blood, violence and the
  Supernatural. The grosser the better
• FEAR FACTOR - Love to be scared
• NOT BORING Page Turner
• FORBIDDEN Adults Disapprove of Genre

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• What we need to remember is that horror allows
  teens to face their fear and defeat them in a
  safe environment

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TIPS

• Dont Assume Check with the teen on their
  definition of scary
• Quality Matters Not Quantity (So Weed Old Copies)
• Cool Covers Do Make a Difference

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Vampires

• A perennial Favorite
• but vary in theme and mood

STAR CROSSED LOVE
HUMOROUS
BONE CHILLING HORROR
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WEREWOLVES AND SHAPESHIFTERS

• Metaphor for PHYSICAL and PSYCHOLOGICAL
  TRANSFORMATION

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SUPERNATURAL

• Gothic

HUMOROUS
TO
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Short Story Collections for Busy Teens
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DARK FANTASY
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FUNNY HORROR

• A blending of humor and horror
• Shifts moods rapidly

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JEFF STRAND
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Neil Gaiman
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Julie Kenner
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Christopher Moore
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F. Paul Wilson

• REPAIRMAN JACK SERIES

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VARIOUS
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HORROR WESTERNS
Graphic Novels
Strange Adventures of Rangergirl
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Joe R. Lansdale
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WHERE IS THE GENRE GOING?
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READERS ADVISORY FOR THE NON HORROR READER

• Patron enjoys thrillers of any kind
• Patron does not mind blood and guts
• Patron prefers character-driven plots to
  action-driven stories
• Patron does not mind fantasy elements in their
  novels

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EBOOKS

• http//www.horrorlibrary.net/

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ONLINE SOURCES Booklists, Reviews

• Salt Lake County Library System
• http//www.slco.lib.ut.us/horror.htm
• Monster Librarian
• http//www.monsterlibrarian.com/
• Horror Reader
• http//www.horrorreader.com/

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ONLINE SOURCES Booklists, Reviews

• Horrorworld
• http//www.horrorworld.org/
• Necrofile
• http//www.lsu.edu/necrofile/
• The Cabinet of Dr Casey
• http//www.thecabinet.com/index.php
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ONLINE SOURCES BOOKSTORES
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OTHER SOURCES

• June Michelle Pulliam and Anthony J. Fonseca.
  Read on.Horror Fiction. CT Libraries Unlimited
  2006

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On Horror by Robert Hershon

• If it is horrible to be burned alive by savage
  tribesman
• Who dance and leap about as your wrist watch
  melts,
• It is horrible to be burned by a hot pot.
• If it is horrible in the great gothic house when
  the hairy claw
• Comes through the velvet drape and clutches your
  throat,
• It is horrible when your child touches your hand
  as you sleep.
• If it is horrible when the fiendish vaudevillian,
  in a rage because you were in the fourth grade
  with his wife, pins you to the wall with his
  wicked throwing knives and takes dead aim at your
  breast pocket,
• It is horrible to mince onions.
• If it is horrible to be buried under an avalanche
  of snow and rocks
• Set off by a mad alpinist, shrieking in the thin
  air,
• It is horrible to drop a book on your toe.
• If it is horrible to be drowned in the relentless
  flood as you were racing to warn the FBI that
  bearded saboteurs were lurking near the dam,
• It is horrible to scrub your feet in the bath.
• But if the pot boils without heat?
• If the childs eyes are dark, the infant
  prowling?