OH MY DUDE GET MY FAVOURITE THING IS MONSTERS BY EMIL FERRIS
amazon is maybe one of the cheapest places to get it but its still a hot $30 or so (idk exactly bc im british, exchange rates who?), so to get it on a discount is a blessinggg. its a really great comic - not exactly horror and more about-and-in-love-with-horror.
its the graphic diary of a little girl who draws herself as a wolfman growing up in chicago in the late 60s, she loves monsters and shes investigating the maybe murder of her neighbour, a holocaust survivor. it goes real deep into some heavy stuff, from the reality of life in the working class neighbourhoods of chicago at the time to pedophile rings in pre-war germany. its wild. its so good though, and speaks to anyone who loves and identifies with the horror monster.
otherwise, id recc checking out the film a girl walks home alone at night - brilliant iranian vampire flick from a few years ago. its shot in gorgeous black and white and is one of my faaaavourite films.
orrrr if it works on amazon rentals, try as boas maneiras - good manners. its a brazillian werewolf film that is SO hard to find, its a real weird but charming film thats well worth the 2 hour watch
if it were me, id prolly buy smth beyond my usual price range - im willing to pay abt £15 for a book i really want, but going above that hurts my soul. so id be going for things like a lot of cool media theory books and massive fuckoff tomes like fave thing