Author: Matt Glasby Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA ISBN: 0711251797 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 179
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“Glasby anatomizes horror’s scare tactics with keen, lucid clarity across 34 carefully selected main films—classic and pleasingly obscure. 4 Stars.” —Total Film? Horror movies have never been more critically or commercially successful, but there’s only one metric that matters: are they scary? The Book of Horror focuses on the most frightening films of the post-war era—from Psycho (1960) to It Chapter Two (2019)—examining exactly how they scare us across a series of key categories. Each chapter explores a seminal horror film in depth, charting its scariest moments with infographics and identifying the related works you need to see. Including references to more than one hundred classic and contemporary horror films from around the globe, and striking illustrations from Barney Bodoano, this is a rich and compelling guide to the scariest films ever made. “This is the definitive guide to what properly messes us up.” —SFX Magazine The films: Psycho (1960), The Innocents (1961), The Haunting (1963), Don’t Look Now (1973), The Exorcist (1973), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), Who Can Kill a Child? (1976), Suspiria (1977), Halloween (1978), The Shining (1980), The Entity (1982), Angst (1983), Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1990), Ring (1998), The Blair Witch Project (1999), The Others (2001), The Eye (2002), Ju-On: The Grudge (2002), Shutter (2004), The Descent (2005), Wolf Creek (2005), The Orphanage (2007), [Rec] (2007), The Strangers (2008), Lake Mungo (2008), Martyrs (2008), The Innkeepers (2011), Banshee Chapter (2013), Oculus (2013), The Babadook (2014), It Follows (2015), Terrified (2017), Hereditary (2018), It Chapter Two (2019)
Author: Various Publisher: Wordsworth Editions ISBN: 9781840220568 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 1176
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A superb collection of some of the greatest tales of the genre; many are classics while others are lesser-known gems unearthed from the vintage era of the supernatural.
Author: John Blackburn Publisher: Valancourt Books ISBN: 1943910529 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 208
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In this volume, you will encounter tales of ghosts, haunted houses, witchcraft, vampirism, lycanthropy, and sea monsters. Stories of cruelty and vengeance, of a body that refuses to be cremated, a deranged performer with one last shocking show, a frozen corpse that may not be dead. With stories ranging from frightening to horrific to weird to darkly funny, by a lineup of authors that includes both masters of horror fiction and award-winning literary greats, this is a horror anthology like no other. Spanning two hundred years of horror, this new collection features seventeen macabre gems, including two original tales and many others that have never or seldom been reprinted, by: Charles Birkin • John Blackburn • Michael Blumlein • Mary Cholmondeley • Hugh Fleetwood • Stephen Gregory • Gerald Kersh • Francis King • M. G. Lewis • Florence Marryat • Richard Marsh • Michael McDowell • Christopher Priest • Forrest Reid • Bernard Taylor • Hugh Walpole 'The things were there and they were hiding in the slime; waiting ... waiting to clutch and claw and savage’ - AUNTY GREEN by John Blackburn ‘The sound that came from her throat, a small, pleading cry of terror, was cut off before she’d hardly had a chance to utter it’ - OUT OF SORTS by Bernard Taylor ‘The words filled her with an indescribable fear, and she turned to run; but her way was blocked by a figure, gigantic in stature – and its monstrous shape moved towards her, and she knew it was the incarnation of evil itself ’ - THE TERROR ON TOBIT by Charles Birkin
Author: Steve Niles Publisher: IDW Publishing ISBN: Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 146
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Collected together for the first time are the original Little Book of Horror stories. This collection features three classic tales of terror -- Frankenstein, War of the Worlds and Dracula -- retold by Steve Niles and accompanied with beautiful full-color art by Scott Morse, Ted McKeever and Richard Sala.
Author: Grady Hendrix Publisher: Quirk Books ISBN: 1594749825 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 256
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An affectionate, nostalgic, and unflinchingly funny celebration of the horror fiction boom of the 1970s and ’80s Take a tour through the horror paperback novels of two iconic decades . . . if you dare. Page through dozens and dozens of amazing book covers featuring well-dressed skeletons, evil dolls, and knife-wielding killer crabs! Read shocking plot summaries that invoke devil worship, satanic children, and haunted real estate! Horror author and vintage paperback book collector Grady Hendrix offers killer commentary and witty insight on these trashy thrillers that tried so hard to be the next Exorcist or Rosemary’s Baby. Complete with story summaries and artist and author profiles, this unforgettable volume dishes on familiar authors like V. C. Andrews and R. L. Stine, plus many more who’ve faded into obscurity. Also included are recommendations for which of these forgotten treasures are well worth your reading time and which should stay buried.
Author: Howard Maxford Publisher: B. T. Batsford Limited ISBN: Category : Horror films Languages : en Pages : 216
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In its heyday during the Fifties, Sixties and early Seventies, Hammer Films produced a legacy of horror films such as Dracula, The Curse of Frankenstein and The Quatermass Experiment, featuring stars who included Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Bette Davis, Ursula Andress, Raquel Welch, Stephanie Beacham and Julie Ege. This book provides a chronological, film-by-film history of the studio, from its obscure beginnings in the 1930s to its decline and virtual disappearance five decades later. It includes coverage of the pre-horror, science-fiction films of the 1950s, and post-horror comedy of the 1980s, with complete credits for all Hammer films.
Author: Mike Richardson Publisher: Dark Horse Comics ISBN: 1506728642 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 306
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Explore the dark corners of the horror genre with this collection of spooky tales of witchcraft, ghosts, and the risen dead! Originally collected as a hardcover, these stories from the likes of Mike Mignola, Evan Dorkin, Jill Thompson, Gary Gianni, Robert E. Howard and more first appeared in the Dark Horse Book of Monsters, the Dark Horse Book of Witchcraft, the Dark Horse Book of Hauntings, and the Dark Horse Book of the Dead. Now available for the first time in paperback, these haunting shorts have lost none of their spine-tingling genius!
Author: Jim Trombetta Publisher: Harry N. Abrams ISBN: 9780810955950 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 176
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Censored out of existence by Congress in the 1950s, rare comic book images--many of which have been rarely seen since they were first issued--are now revealed once again in all of their eye-popping inventive outrageousness. Original.
Author: Daniel Braum Publisher: ISBN: 9781734191776 Category : Languages : en Pages : 358
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THE JEWISH BOOK OF HORROR Edited by Josh Schlossberg Horror is part of the human condition, but few peoples across the ages know it quite like the Jews. From slavery to pogroms to the Holocaust to antisemitism, the "Chosen People" have not only endured hell on Earth, they've risen above it to share their stories with the world. Whether it's pirate rabbis or demon-slaying Bible queens, concentration camp vampires or beloved, fearless bubbies, THE JEWISH BOOK OF HORROR offers you twenty-two dark tales about the culture, history, and folklore of the Jewish people. TABLE OF CONTENTS An Orchard of Terror: Scary Stories and the Jewish Tradition by Rabbi John Carrier Origins of The Jewish Book of Horror by Josh Schlossberg Torah-Fying Tales: An Introduction to Jewish Horror by Molly Adams On Seas of Blood and Salt by Richard Dansky The Last Plague by KD Casey The 38th Funeral by Marc Morgenstern Same as Yesterday by Alter S. Reiss How to Build a Sukkah at the End of the World by Lindsay King-Miller Demon Hunter Vashti by Henry Herz The Horse Leech Has Two Maws by Michael Picco The Rabbi's Wife by Simon Rosenberg Ba'alat Ov by Brenda Tolian Eighth Night by John Baltisberger Bread and Salt by Elana Gomel In the Red by Mike Marcus A Purim Story by Emily Ruth Verona Catch and Release by Vivian Kasley Phinehas the Zealot by Ethan K. Lee The Wisdom of Solomon by Ken Goldman Welcome, Death by J.D. Blackrose Forty Days Before Birth by Colleen Halupa The Hanukkult of Taco Wisdom by Margret Treiber The Divorce From God by Rami Ungar The Hand of Fire by Daniel Braum Bar Mitzvah Lessons by Stewart Gisser
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