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CRRL Picks: Found Footage Horror

"Found footage" is a cinematic technique in which all or part of the fictional work is presented in various film and video recordings, telling the story through a sequence of archival footage. This trope is not absent in the literary world. Check out these recommendations for "found footage" horror.

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  • Journalist Laura Warren begins investigating a new television series, a remake of a cursed 1990s horror movie which she happened to star in as a child. An experience she'd rather forget. After Laura sees a man jumping from a bridge, she knows it's…
    Book, 2023New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2023]. — FICTION Win
  • The hit ghost hunting reality show "Fade to Black" -- led by husband-and-wife team Matt and Claire Kirklin -- delivers weekly ghostly investigations to its hungry audience. Their thirteenth episode takes them to the notorious Paranormal Research…
    Book, 2023New York : Redhook, 2023. — FICTION DiL
  • FantasticLand is a theme park where "Fun is Guaranteed!" But when the teen employees become isolated from the outside world due to damage from a hurricane, there is no fun to be had. Five grueling weeks later, a rescue crew is sent into the park and…
    eBook, 2016New York : Skyhorse Publishing, [2016] — FICTION Boc
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    Eighteen Stories of Found Footage Horror

    The ultimate anthology of short stories on found-footage horror, together in one volume. Edited by Andrew Cull and Gabino Iglesias.
    Book, 2022[Place of publication not identified] : Vermillion2One Press, 2022. — FICTION Fou
  • In June 1993, a group of young filmmakers spent four weeks making a disturbing art-house production, dubbed "Horror Movie" that only released three scenes to the public. Despite this, the film garnered a huge fan base, making it a cult movie that…
    Book, 2024New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024] — FICTION Tre
  • "House of Leaves" started out as a bundle of papers with fragments of a story, passed through various damaged adolescents. But as the viral story unfolds, the young family on Ash Tree Lane discovers something is terribly wrong with their house: it's…
    Book, 2000New York : Pantheon Books, [2000], ©2000. — FICTION Dan
  • Ashley Cordova, daughter of controversial horror film director Stanislaus Cordova, is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in Manhattan. Her sudden and mysterious death is ruled a suicide, but investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects…
    Book, 2013New York : Random House, 2013. — FICTION Pes
  • A, a European descendant of the infamous Wells family, inherits Axton House, a haunted estate deep in the woods of Point Bless, Virginia. Along with his colorful young companion Niamh, they both come to realize that they have inherited more than…
    Book, 2014New York : Doubleday, 2014. — FICTION Can
  • A down-on-his-luck actor gets an invitation to work on an "art film" in the Amazon jungle. Elated to find any job, he flies to South America, only quickly realizing, that he's made a huge mistake. He's not replacing an actor who quit after reading…
    Book, 2016New York : Scribner, 2016. — FICTION Wil