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Horror

Here are entered works on the expression of shock, fear or repulsion caused by an atrocity or a danger directed toward oneself or others. Works on intense, prolonged fear caused by either recurring frightening imageries or imagined or actual present or future dangers are entered under Terror.

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• Emotions

• Fear

• Horror -- Poetry

• September and Other Stories (c2007), by Julie Ann Dawson (HTML at publicbookshelf.com)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Conquest of Fear, by Basil King, contrib. by Henry C. Link (Gutenberg text)
• Where No Fear Was: A Book About Fear, by Arthur Christopher Benson (Gutenberg text)
• Happiness, As Found in Forethought Minus Fearthought (New York: F. A. Stokes co., c1898), by Horace Fletcher, contrib. by William H. Holcombe (Gutenberg text)

• A Treatise of the Fear of God, by John Bunyan (PDF at chapellibrary.org)

• Delusion and Mass-Delusion (New York: Nervous and Mental Disease Monographs, 1949), by Joost Meerloo (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rights in Retreat: Abuses in Crimea (in English, Russian, and Ukrainian; New York: Human Rights Watch, c2014), by Yulia Gorbunova (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at hrw.org)

• On Productive Shame, Reconciliation, and Agency (Pub. series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, v16; Berlin: Sternberg Press, c2016), ed. by Suzana Milevska (PDF with commentary in Austria)

• Displacing Homophobia: Gay Male Perspectives in Literature and Culture (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1989), ed. by Ronald R. Butters, John M. Clum, and Michael Moon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Traps: African American Men on Gender and Sexuality (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c2001), ed. by Rudolph P. Byrd and Beverly Guy-Sheftall (multiple formats at fulcrum.org)
• You're Not from Around Here, Are You? A Lesbian in Small-Town America (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c2001), by Louise A. Blum (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Displacing Homophobia: Gay Male Perspectives in Literature and Culture (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1989), ed. by Ronald R. Butters, John M. Clum, and Michael Moon (page images at HathiTrust)

• HIV-Negative: How the Uninfected Are Affected by AIDS (1995), by William I. Johnston (HTML at std.com)

• A Short History of Trans Misogyny (London and Brooklyn: Verso, c2024), by Jules Gill-Peterson (Epub at OAPEN)

• Fear, Loathing, and Victorian Xenophobia (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), ed. by Marlene Tromp, Maria K. Bachman, and Heidi Kaufman (PDF at Ohio State)

• Religious Otherness and National Identity in Scandinavia, c. 1790-1960: The Construction of Jews, Mormons and Jesuits as Anti-Citizens and Enemies of Society (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, c2021), by Frode Ulvund, trans. by Adam King (PDF and Epub with commentary at degruyterbrill.com)

• Prohibited Persons: Abuse of Undocumented Migrants, Asylum-Seekers, and Refugees in South Africa, by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML at hrw.org)

• Tracing the Melanesian Person: Emotions and Relationships in Lihir (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2013), by Susan R. Hemer (multiple formats with commentary at Adelaide)
• On Emotional Presentation (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1972), by A. Meinong, trans. by Marie-Luise Schubert Kalsi, contrib. by J. N. Findlay (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
• Emotions, Senses, Spaces: Ethnographic Engagements and Intersections (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2016), ed. by Susan R. Hemer and Alison Dundon (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
• Feeling and Emotion: A History of Theories (New York et al.: American Book Co., c1937), by H. Norman Gardiner, Ruth Clark Metcalf, and John G. Beebe-Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emotions of Normal People (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co.; New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1928), by William Moulton Marston (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1872), by Charles Darwin (HTML at Brock)
• The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (London: John Murray, 1872; with other editions), by Charles Darwin (illustrated HTML and page images with commentary at Charles Darwin Online)
• The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1898), by Charles Darwin (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1899), by Charles Darwin (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Focusing on the Emotions of Daily Life: A Guide for Their Maintenance, by Ilan Shalif (HTML at shalif.com)
• The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers, by George Washington Crile (Gutenberg text)
• Workers' Emotions in Shop and Home: A Study of Individual Workers From the Psychological and Physiological Standpoint (Wharton Industrial Research Department research study #18; Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1932), by Rexford B. Hersey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emotion as the Basis of Civilization (New York and London: C. Scribner's Sons, 1928), by John Hopkins Denison, contrib. by George Foot Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• How You Can Keep Happy (Chicago: American Health Book Concern, 1926), by William S. Sadler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Men, Women and Emotions (Chicago: W. B. Conkey Co., 1899), by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Social Destiny of Man: or, Theory of the Four Movements (with an added treatise and outline by Brisbane; New York: R. M. Dewitt and C. Blanchard, 1857), by Charles Fourier, trans. by Henry Clapp, contrib. by Albert Brisbane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wissenschaftliches System der Mimik und Physiognomik (in German; Detmold: Klingenberg, 1867), by Theodor Piderit (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Divine Passions: The Social Construction of Emotion in India (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), ed. by Owen M. Lynch (HTML at UC Press)

• A Treatise Concerning Enthusiasme, As it is an Effect of Nature, But is Mistaken by Many for Either Divine Inspiration, or Diabolical Possession (London: Printed by R.D. for T. Johnson, 1655), by Meric Casaubon
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at EEBO TCP

• The Passions of the Minde in Generall: Corrected, Enlarged, and With Sundry New Discourses Augmented (London: Printed by V. Simmes for W. Burre, 1604), by Thomas Wright (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Fleetwood: or, The New Man of Feeling (Standard Novels #32; London: R. Bentley, 1832), by William Godwin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Menticulture: or, The A-B-C of True Living (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1895), by Horace Fletcher (Gutenberg text)

• 1910: The Emancipation of Dissonance (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996), by Thomas J. Harrison (HTML at UC Press)

• Shock and Awe: Achieving Rapid Dominance (1996), by Harlan Ullman and James P. Wade
  • HTML at af.mil
  • Gutenberg text

• Bias, Belief, and Conviction in an Age of Fake Facts (London and New York: Routledge, c2023), ed. by Anke K. Finger and Manuela Wagner
  • multiple formats with commentary at taylorfrancis.com
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
• Belief in God (second edition; Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1888), by Alfred Williams Momerie (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Excellent Religion: An Essay on the Relations Existing Between Agnosticism, the Polar Theory of Being, and the Higher Theism (London: Watts and Co., ca. 1890), by George Chetwynd Griffith (page images at HathiTrust)
• On Causation, With a Chapter on Belief (London: Longman's Green and Co., 1916), by Charles Arthur Mercier (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Psychology of Confidence: An Experimental Inquiry (Archives of Psychology #67, 1923), by William Clark Trow (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Study of Natio-Racial Mental Differences (Genetic Psychology Monographs v1 #3-4; 1926), by Nathaniel D. Mttron Hirsch (page images at Harvard)

• The Psychology of Confidence: An Experimental Inquiry (Archives of Psychology #67, 1923), by William Clark Trow (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Authoritarians (c2006), by Bob Altemeyer (multiple formats with commentary at theauthoritarians.org)

• Laughing and Crying: A Study of the Limits of Human Behavior (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1970), by Helmuth Plessner, trans. by James Spencer Churchill and Marjorie Grene (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

• The Desire Body, by Max Heindel (PDF at rosicrucian.com)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.