Jack Sullivan, "The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural"

This encyclopedia contains detailed and well-written entries related to the horror and weird fiction genre: authors, poets, films and filmmakers, novels, magazines, comics, TV shows, plus lots of illustrations. The author biographies cover many obscure and forgotten figures from the 1700s and 1800s. There are also many essays on subjects like "Golden Age of the Ghost Story" and "Southern Gothic."