2015, The Rue Morgue Library, 129 pages

From the government subsidized Canadian horror magazine comes an interesting collection of facts from the banal to the profound, mostly the former. This was a nice quick read, with five statements of little known fact on figure as varied as Poe, Lovecraft and various celebrities like Alice Cooper.

Of particular interest to me were such facts as a survey concluded that children recognized a fictional slasher villain more readily than Abe Lincoln, that Edgar Allen Poe invented the detective story, and that technicians working on the set of Jaws named the mechanical shark after the director's lawyer.

There is a lot of interesting details about the careers of early horror actors of the silent movie era, and of obscure films that span the life of the genre in cinema. If you are a horror film geek this book should be well worth the price.