The Horror Movie Survival Guide

Dracula, Chucky, Godzilla, Annie Wilkes and the living dead are revered and revealed in The Horror Movie Survival Guide, an engagingly silly book in which the authors claim, ""Horror movies are texts to be studied, lessons in survival."" Hovering between metaphor and spoof (""No, it's not `just a movie' ""), Matteo Molinari and Jim Kamm cite hundreds of films as they dispense information on identifying a given alien, beast or psychopath; what to expect from it; how to defend yourself (if this is even a possibility); and in what movie(s) it has appeared. Photos. ( Apr. 10)