Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Synthesis Essay Reading List Suggestions


Psycho Horror

“Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper,” Robert Bloch
Psycho, the movie
“A Rose for Emily,” William Faulkner
“The Rocking-horse Winner,” D.H. Lawrence
The Silence of the Lambs, movie
“The Crowd,” Ray Bradbury
“The Midnight Meat Train,” Clive Barker
“The Whimper of Whipped Dogs,” Harlan Ellison
The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Red Dragon novels

Techno Horror

The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Philip K. Dick
Prey, Michael Chrichton
 “The Veldt,” Bradbury
“There Will Come Soft Rains,” Bradbury
“A Little Something for Us Tempernauts,” Philip K. Dick
“We Can Remember it For you Wholesale,” Dick
“Minority Report,” Dick


Women’s Horror
“Bliss,” Kate Chopin
“To Room 19,” Doris Lessing
“Gaslight,” movie
“The Stepford Wives,” movie (original)
“The Fulness of Life,” Edith Wharton
“The Amber Gods,” Harriet Stafford Prescott
“The Yellow Wallpaper,” Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
“The Bingo Master,” Joyce Carol Oates

Aliens
“Alien,” the movie
“Invasion of the Body Snatchers,”
“The Thing” movie
“The Day the Earth Stood Still” movie
H. P. Lovecraft, “The Colour of Outer Space”
H. P. Lovecraft, “The Call of Chthulu”
The War of the Worlds, Wells

Robots
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheet, Philip K. Dick
Prey, Michael Chrichton
“Bladerunner” movie
I, Robot, Isaac Asimov (series)

Dystopia
1984, George Orwell
A Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
The Time Machine, H.G. Wells

Other Planets
Dune (series), George Herbert


Secondary Sources
Supernatural Horror in Literature, H.P. Lovecraft
Danse Macabre, Stephen King

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