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Horror: Films To Scare You To DeathCategory: Books Description: Packed with photographs of the most terrifying scenes in cinema history, Horror is the definitive guide tracing the story of horror, decade-by-decade. Providing a witty and informative critique of over 300 films and several TV series and the literature that accompanies them, this offers a superb introduction for beginners as well as something new for the die-hard horror fan. Horror is one of the most popular and influential genres in cinema, a perennial favourite that just won't stay dead. Initial banned or shunned creations are now regarded as movie milestones with cult appeal. This book covers the hidden gems, big-budget duds and foreign contributions of the Horror scene. Whether you're a seasoned, horror expert or a tentative horror explorer, this is the ultimate guide through a century of fear. Delivery cost: 0.00 ISBN: 9781787391390 Review this product |
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H. P. Lovecraft: Great Tales Of HorrorCategory: Books Description: H. P. Lovecraft: Great Tales of Horror features twenty of horror master H. P. Lovecraft's classic stories, among them some of the greatest works of horror fiction ever written, including: The Rats in the Walls, Pickman's Model, The Colour out of Space, The Call of Cthulhu, The Dunwich Horror, The Shadow over Innsmouth, At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow out of Time, and The Haunter of the Dark. Delivery cost: 0.00 ISBN: 9781435140370 Review this product |
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The Complete Horowitz Horror By Anthony HorowitzCategory: Books Description: This wicked collection of 18 macabre tales combines both Horowitz Horror and More Horowitz Horror in one volume. Delivery cost: 0.00 ISBN: 9780142411629 Review this product |
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Goosebumps Pack X 27Category: Books Description: Classic horror from the series that defines it. Nasty like fingernails scratching on glass. Horror done right. Scary movies? We don't need them. We've got Goosebumps. Probably the biggest horror series of all time. So cool it's sold 350 million copies. So scary libraries ban it. And now it's a totally massive movie series too! Like a good fright? Course you do. Think you can handle it? Let's see. Find out what the fuss is about. Prepare to gnaw your knuckles. A bumper mixed bag from R. L. Stine's massive series The classic books plus Most Wanted and Horror Land Hugely addictive mix of humour, horror and suspense Over 350 million Goosebumps books sold worldwide ISBN: 9789999639224 Review this product |
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The Great God Pan And Other Horror Stories By Arthur MachenCategory: Books Description: Arthur Machen is a significant figure in supernatural and horror literature, in the genre of 'weird fiction'. This collection brings together his best horror tales with a full contextual introduction and which helps to illuminate Machen's place in the literary and cultural milieu of 1890s Britain. Delivery cost: 0.00 ISBN: 9780198813163 Review this product |
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The Birth Of The American Horror FilmCategory: Books Description: Although early cinema has long been a key area of research in film studies, the origin and development of the horror film has been a neglected subject for what is arguably one of the world's most popular film genres. Using thousands of primary sources and long-unseen illustrations, The Birth of the American Horror Film examines a history that begins in colonial Salem, taking an interdisciplinary approach to explore the influence of horror-themed literature, theatre and visual culture in America, and how that context established an amorphous structural foundation for films produced between 1895 and 1915. Exhaustively researched, bridging scholarship on Horror Studies and Early Cinema, The Birth of the American Horror Film is the first major study dedicated to this vital but often overlooked subject. Delivery cost: 0.00 ISBN: 9781474430869 Review this product |
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Writing The Horror MovieCategory: Books Description: Tales of horror have always been with us, from Biblical times to the Gothic novel to successful modern day authors and screenwriters. Though the genre is often maligned, it is huge in popularity and its resilience is undeniable. Marc Blake and Sara Bailey offer a detailed analysis of the horror genre, including its subgenres, tropes and the specific requirements of the horror screenplay. Tracing the development of the horror film from its beginnings in German Expressionism, the authors engage in a readable style that will appeal to anyone with a genuine interest in the form and the mechanics of the genre. This book examines the success of Universal Studio's franchises of the '30s to the Serial Killer, the Slasher film, Asian Horror, the Supernatural, Horror Verite and current developments in the field, including 3 D and remakes. It also includes step-by-step writing exercises and interviews with seasoned writers/directors/ producers discussing budget restrictions, screenplay form and formulas and how screenplays work during shooting. Delivery cost: 0.00 ISBN: 9781441196187 Review this product |
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Fragments Of Horror By Junji ItoCategory: Books Description: A new collection of delightfully macabre tales from a master of horror manga. Delivery cost: 0.00 ISBN: 9781421580791 Review this product |
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Goosebumps Graphix: Slappys Tales Of HorrorCategory: Books Description: The scariest thing you'll ever see. Possibly the last. Three horror classics in colour. ISBN: 9781407163437 Review this product |
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New Fears Ii - Brand New Horror Stories By Masters Of The MacabreCategory: Books Description: The horror genre's greatest living practitioners drag our darkest fears kicking and screaming into the light in this second collection of brand-new tales of terror. Numinous, surreal and gut wrenching, New Fears II is a vibrant collection showcasing the very best fiction modern horror has to offer. Delivery cost: 0.00 ISBN: 9781785655531 Review this product |
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The Classic Horror Stories By H. P. LovecraftCategory: Books Description: H. P. Lovecraft is a major writer of horror stories, in the genre of 'weird fiction'. This new edition brings together his core 'classic' fictions with a full contextual introduction, offering a balanced assessment of an influential cult author whose tales of metaphysical horror create a profound sense of dread and unease. Delivery cost: 0.00 ISBN: 9780199639571 Review this product |
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H.p. Lovecraft (barnes and Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition) By H. P. LovecraftCategory: Books Description: In the 1920s and '30s, H P Lovecraft pioneered a new type of fiction that fused elements of supernatural horror with the concepts of visionary science fiction. Lovecraft's tales of cosmic horror revolutionised modern horror fiction. This title collects Lovecraft's fictions. Delivery cost: 0.00 ISBN: 9781435122963 Review this product |
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Supernatural Horror Short StoriesCategory: Books Description: Following the great success of our Gothic Fantasy, deluxe edition short story compilations, Ghosts, Horror, Science Fiction, Murder Mayhem and Crime & Mystery this latest title crawls with the dark fingers of terror, the chilling sensation of another presence sitting alongside you while you read the tales of horror laid out before you. Contains a fabulous mix of classic and brand new writing, with authors from the US, Canada, and the UK. Delivery cost: 0.00 ISBN: 9781786641823 Review this product |
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Skulduggery Pleasant Pack X 12Category: Books Description: Like horror? Like chuckles? Not at all squeamish? Read this! The very funny cult series that's given horror fiction a good hard kick up the backside. ISBN: 9789999656047 Review this product |
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Goosebumps Pack X 10Category: Books Description: Classic horror from the series that defines it. Nasty like fingernails scratching on glass. Horror done right. Scary movies? We don't need them. We've got Goosebumps. Probably the biggest horror series of all time. So cool it's sold 350 million copies. So scary libraries ban it. And now it's a totally massive movie series too! Like a good fright? Course you do. Think you can handle it? Let's see. Find out what the fuss is about. Prepare to gnaw your knuckles. Early classics from R. L. Stine's massive series This bumper bag is a great way to hook readers in An addictive mix of humour, horror and suspense Over 350 million Goosebumps books sold worldwide ISBN: 9789999653596 Review this product |
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Why Horror SeducesCategory: Books Description: From vampire apocalypses, shark attacks, witches, and ghosts, to murderous dolls bent on revenge, horror has been part of the American cinematic imagination for almost as long as pictures have moved on screens. But why do they captive us so? What is the drive to be frightened, and why is it so perennially popular? Why Horror Seduces addresses these questions through evolutionary social sciences. Explaining the functional seduction of horror entertainment, this book draws on cutting-edge findings in the evolutionary social sciences, showing how the horror genre is a product of human nature. Integrating the study of horror with the sciences of human nature, the book claims that horror entertainment works by targeting humans' adaptive tendency to find pleasure in make-believe, allowing a high intensity experience within a safe context. Through analyses of well-known and popular modern American works of horror- Rosemary's Baby; The Shining; I Am Legend; Jaws; and several others-author Mathias Clasen illustrates how these works target evolved cognitive and emotional mechanisms; we are attracted to horrifying entertainment because we have an adaptive tendency to find pleasure in make-believe that allows us to experience negative emotions at high levels of intensity within a safe context. Organized into three parts identifying fictional works by evolutionary mode - the evolution of horror; evolutionary interpretations of horror; the future of horror - Why Horror Seduces succinctly explores the cognitive processes behind spectators' need to scream. Delivery cost: 0.00 ISBN: 9780190666514 Review this product |
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In The Dust Of This PlanetCategory: Books Description: Thacker's discourse on the intersection of horror and philosophy is utterly original and utterly captivating... Thomas Ligotti, author of The Conspiracy Against the Human Race The world is increasingly unthinkable, a world of planetary disasters, emerging pandemics, and the looming threat of extinction. In this book Eugene Thacker suggests that we look to the genre of horror as offering a way of thinking about the unthinkable world. To confront this idea is to confront the limit of our ability to understand the world in which we live - a central motif of the horror genre. In the Dust of This Planet explores these relationships between philosophy and horror. In Thacker's hands, philosophy is not academic logic-chopping; instead, it is the thought of the limit of all thought, especially as it dovetails into occultism, demonology, and mysticism. Likewise, Thacker takes horror to mean something beyond the focus on gore and scare tactics, but as the under-appreciated genre of supernatural horror in fiction, film, comics, and music. Delivery cost: 0.00 ISBN: 9781846946769 Review this product |
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Red Eye Horror Pack X 7Category: Books Description: Freaky horror to plug your Neil Gaiman gap! Some horror fiction wimps out. ( It's just too nice for any blood.) Result: you get half measures. It annoys us. Which is why we're massive fans of Red Eye: a grisly series that pulls no punches. Hello, totally insane fear factor! If that sounds horribly good, come and find your sort of creepy. Is it: eyeless antique dolls? Empty hospital corridors? A remote island where no one can hear you scream? Indulge in the epic spook-fest then add to the incredible reviews by telling the world which book you think is scariest. Totally fresh, addictive and compelling YA horror All the grisly fun of Point Horror for the digital age Written by award-winning authors and rising stars Fabulous reviews from teen readers and the press This pack contains mature content and language more suitable for older readers. ISBN: 9789999656146 Review this product |
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Starry Speculative CorpseCategory: Books Description: Could it be that the more we know about the world, the less we understand it? Could it be that, while everything has been explained, nothing has meaning? Extending the ideas presented in his book In The Dust of This Planet, Eugene Thacker explores these and other issues in Starry Speculative Corpse. But instead of using philosophy to define or to explain the horror genre, Thacker reads works of philosophy as if they were horror stories themselves, revealing a rift between human beings and the unhuman world of which they are part. Along the way we see philosophers grappling with demons, struggling with doubt, and wrestling with an indifferent cosmos. At the center of it all is the philosophical drama of the human being confronting its own limits. Not a philosophy of horror, but a horror of philosophy. Thought that stumbles over itself, as if at the edge of an abyss. Starry Speculative Corpse is the second volume of the Horror of Philosophy trilogy, together with the first volume, In The Dust of This Planet, and the third volume, Tentacles Longer Than Night. Delivery cost: 0.00 ISBN: 9781782798910 Review this product |
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Frankenstein By Junji ItoCategory: Books Description: The master of horror manga brings the world's greatest horror novel- Frankenstein-back to life. Delivery cost: 0.00 ISBN: 9781974703760 Review this product |
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100 European Horror FilmsCategory: Books Description: From bloodsucking schoolgirls to flesh-eating zombies, and from psychopathic killers to beasts from hell, 100 European Horror Films provides a lively and illuminating guide to a hundred key horror movies from the 1920s to the present day. Alongside films from countries particularly associated with horror production - notably Germany, Italy, and Spain and movies by key horror filmmakers such as Mario Bava, Dario Argento, and Lucio Fulci, 100 European Horror Films also includes films from countries as diverse as Denmark, Belgium, and the Soviet Union, and filmmakers such as Bergman, Polanski and Claire Denis, more commonly associated with art cinema. The book features entries representing key horror subgenres such as the Italian giallo thrillers of the late 60s and 70s, psychological thrillers, and zombie, cannibal, and vampire movies. Each entry includes a plot synopsis, major credits, and a commentary on the film's significance, together with its production and exhibition history. Films covered in the book include early classics such as Paul Wegener's The Golem, Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and Murnau's Nosferatu; 70s horror favorites such as Daughters of Darkness, The Beast, and Suspiria; and notable recent releases such as The Devil's Backbone, Malefique, and The Vanishing. Delivery cost: 0.00 ISBN: 9781844571642 Review this product |
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The Imago Sequence And Other Stories By Laird BarronCategory: Books Description: Presents a collection of nine tales of cosmic horror. This book includes the International Horror Guild Award-nominated Proboscis, and the never-before published Procession of the Black Sloth. Delivery cost: 0.00 ISBN: 9781597801461 Review this product |
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Powers Of HorrorCategory: Books Description: Powers of Horror is an excellent introduction to an aspect of contemporary French literature which has been allowed to become somewhat neglected in the current emphasis on para-philosophical modes of discourse. Delivery cost: 0.00 ISBN: 9780231053471 Review this product |
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The Thief Of AlwaysCategory: Books Description: The horror story your students have been asking you for! The only children's story by the master of horror. Delivery cost: 0.00 ISBN: 9780006473114 Review this product |
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The Art Of Horror MoviesCategory: Books Description: This magnificent companion to EThe Art of Horror E from the same creative team behind that award-winning illustrated volume looks at the entire history of the horror film from the silent era right up to the latest releases and trends. THThrough a series of informative chapters and fascinating sidebars chronologically charting the evolution of horror movies for more than a century profusely illustrated throughout with over 600 rare and unique images including posters lobby cards advertising promotional items tie-in books and magazines and original artwork inspired by classic movies this handsomely designed hardcover traces the development of the horror film from its inception and celebrates the actors filmmakers and artists who were responsible for scaring the pants off successive generations of moviegoers! THEdited by multiple award-winning writer and editor Stephen Jones and boasting a foreword by director and screenwriter John Landis ( EAn American Werewolf in London E) this volume brings together fascinating and incisive commentary from some of the genre's most highly respected experts. With eye-popping images from all over the world EThe Art of Horror Movies E is the definitive guide for anyone who loves horror films and movie fans of all ages. Delivery cost: 0.00 ISBN: 9781495064845 Review this product |
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101 Horror Movies You Must See Before You DieCategory: Books Description: Whether it be internal demons, real-life vampires, anonymous serial killers, crazed spouses, vengeful ghosts or Satan himself, horror films have gripped audiences and filmmakers alike since the very beginnings of cinema. Prepare to be terrified, fascinated and enthralled as you take this whirlwind tour of the 101 horror films you must see before you die. 101 Horror Films You Must See Before You Die gives you a thorough appreciation of the genre, because it approaches the subject chronologically. You' ll move through gothic classics like James Whale' s The Old Dark House (1932) and Terence Fisher' s Dracula (1958), to zombie movies like Dawn of the Dead (1978) and 28 Days Later (2002). All the sub-genres are covered too, from Eyes Without a Face (mad scientist) and The Howling (werewolf) to Nightmare on Elm Street (slasher) and The Silence of the Lambs (serial killer). And you' ll learn that it' s not just American teenagers who are horror-film fodder. There are classic horror films from Japan ( Onibaba), Russia ( Vij), Italy ( Suspiria), France ( Les Diaboliques), Belgium ( Man Bites Dog), Germany ( M), and the Netherlands ( The Vanishing). Immerse yourself in the most compelling of movie genres. Prepare to be possessed- and whatever you do, don' t answer the phone... Delivery cost: 0.00 ISBN: 9781845436568 Review this product |
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Goosebumps: Horrorland: The Horror At Chiller HouseCategory: Books Description: The final book in the spine-tingling series! The only way to escape Horror Land is by winning a sinister scavenger hunt. That means competing against six familiar and very evil villains! Will anyone make it out alive? ISBN: 9780545162005 Review this product |
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Goosebumps: One Day At HorrorlandCategory: Books Description: THE classic horror series. So scary libraries ban it. So cool it's sold 350 million copies. Nasty like fingernails scratching on glass. Prepare to gnaw your knuckles. Welcome to Horror Land: the theme park where terror is the main attraction. Werewolf Village, the Doom Slide and the Coffin Cruise are just a taste of what's on offer. Join Luke and Lizzy Morris as they ride each ride and scream each scream. Their first time at Horror Land is a blast. But it might also be their last. #goosebumps #halloween-1016 ISBN: 9781407157450 Review this product |
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Hong Kong Horror CinemaCategory: Books Description: Dumplings stuffed with diabolical fillings. Sword-wielding zombies. Hopping cadavers. Big-head babies. For decades, Hong Kong cinema has served up images of horror quite unlike those found in other parts of the world. In seminal films such as A Chinese Ghost Story, Rouge, The Eye, Dumplings, and Rigor Mortis, the region's filmmakers have pushed the boundaries of genre, cinematic style, and bad taste. But what makes Hong Kong horror cinema so utterly unique? Why does it hold such fascination for serious cinephiles and cult fans alike? Hong Kong Horror Cinema is the first English-language study of this delirious and captivating cinematic tradition, offering new insights into the history of Hong Kong horror through case studies of classic films and through a detailed consideration of their aesthetic power, economic significance, and cultural impact in both the global and domestic market. Delivery cost: 0.00 ISBN: 9781474452229 Review this product |
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Horror: A Literary HistoryCategory: Books Description: Horror: A Literary History is the book horror readers and students need. It will hold you in its grip, leaving you replete with invaluable information about the range, longevity and mutations of the horror genre as it consistently forces you to engage with serious cultural and personal issues. Horror is unlike any other literary genre. It seeks to provoke uniquely strong reactions, such as fear, shock, dread or disgust, and yet remains very popular. It also crosses media, manifesting in narrative forms such as graphic novels and video games. Its characters and trends routinely escape the confines of given texts and become part of the zeitgeist. Of course, horror is most readily associated with the film industry, but horrific short stories and novels have been wildly loved by readers for well over two centuries. Despite its persistent popularity, there is no up-to-date history of horror fiction for the general reader. This ground-breaking new book is the first comprehensive history of horror fiction to take readers from the first Gothic novel in 1764 to the 'new weird', and beyond, in the early 21st century. It offers a chronological overview of the genre in fiction and explores its development and mutations over the past 250 years. It also challenges the common misjudgement that horror fiction is necessarily frivolous or dispensable. Leading experts on Gothic and horror literature introduce readers to classics of the genre as well as exciting texts they may not have encountered before. The topics examined include: horror's roots in the Gothic romance and antebellum American fiction; the penny dreadful and sensation novels of Victorian England; fin-de-siecle ghost stories; decadent fiction and the weird; the familial horrors of the Cold War era; the publishing boom of the 1980s; the establishment of contemporary horror auteurs; and the post-millennial zombie trend Delivery cost: 0.00 ISBN: 9780712356084 Review this product |
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