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  English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema

  by Jonathan Rigby

  “ This useful overview of British horror films condenses 100 years of celluloid fright into 100 key works and 180 photos…This book will likely prove popular with a wide readership…British film historian Rigby’s fine prose is lively and assured. His evaluative comments are worthwhile, and his recounting of historical developments is both accessible and informative. Fans will appreciate his attention to detail,... (more)
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  The Lurker in the Lobby: The Guide to Lovecraftian Cinema

  by Andrew Migliore, John Strysik, Bernie Wrightson, Lee Moyer

  The definitive guide to film and television influenced by the writings of H.P. Lovecraft. From Alien to Hellboy to Rough Magik it's all here. Coverage of feature films, television shows, independent films, interviews with Guillermo del Toro, John Carpenter and more.
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  Shock! Horror!: Astounding Artwork From The Video Nasty Era

  by Marc Morris, Harvey Fenton

  Jaw-dropping collection of UK horror video covers. Between 1980 and 1984, British video companies competed for shelf space with increasingly outrageous cover designs until a legal crackdown removed them from rental shops forever. This important book, from a private collection of rarities, documents those outlaw years of malevolent art with * 200 of the greatest horror video covers from the British 'video nasty'... (more)
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  The Horror Film (Inside Film)

  by Peter Hutchings

  The horror genre has proved to be one of the most consistently popular and the most disreputable of all the mainstream film genres. Since the early 1930s there has never been a time when horror films were not being produced in substantial numbers somewhere in the world and never a time when they were not being criticised, censored or banned. The Horror Film considers the reasons for horror's disreputability and... (more)
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  Horror, The Film Reader (In Focus--Routledge Film Readers)

  Horror, The Film Reader brings together key articles to provide a comprehensive resource for students of horror cinema. Mark Jancovich's introduction traces the development of horror from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to The Blair Witch Project, and outlines the main critical debates. Combining classic and recent articles, each section explores a central issue of horror film, and features an editor's introduction... (more)
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  Danse Macabre

  by Stephen King

  Stephen King explores the phenomenon of horror in a century of film, television, radio, and literature. Who better than King to investigate what terrifies his fans? "One of the best books on American popular culture in the late 20th century." ( The Philadelphia Inquirer ) "A labor of love." ( The Washington Star )
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  Necronomicon I: The Journal of Horror and Erotic Cinema (Necronomicon)

  Necronomicon: Book one continues the singular, thought-provoking exploration of transgressive cinema begun by the much-respected and acclaimed magazine of the same name. The transition to annual book format has allowed for even greater depth and diversity within the journal's trademarks of progressive critique and striking photographic content. Includes: * Jean Rollin: The surreal and the sapphic * Texas... (more)
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  Meat Is Murder! (Creation Cinema)

  by Mikita Brottman

  New, expanded and updated edition of this acclaimed, unique exploration of the stories told about cannibals, focusing on cinematic portrayals such as in long-awaited blockbuster, Hannibal . Detailing the atrocious crimes of real life cannibals, Meat is Murder! also examines cannibals in myth, literature, and anthropological studies. Includes new color photo section and additional chapter on Flesh-Eating Zombies... (more)
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  Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film

  by Carol J. Clover

  Do the pleasures of horror movies really begin and end in sadism? So the public discussion of film assumes, and so film theory claims. Carol Clover argues, however, that these films work mainly to engage the viewer in the plight of the victim-hero, who suffers fright but rises to vanquish the forces of oppression.
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  The Satanic Screen: An Illustrated Guide to the Devil in Cinema

  by Nikolas Schreck

  Satan has figured in film since the very birth of cinema. The Satanic Screen is the first comprehensive study of the Devil's cinematic incarnations, covering over a century of film from the mainstream to the marginal: including Disney, horror classics such as The Exorcist , and sub-genres including sci-fi, mondo, porn and even westerns. Fully illustrated with complete filmography.
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  Hollywood gothic: The tangled web of Dracula from novel to stage to screen

  by David J. Skal

  he primal image of the black-caped vampire Dracula has become an indelible fixture of the modern imagination. It's recognition factor rivals, in its own perverse way, the familiarity of Santa Claus. Most of us can recite without prompting the salient characteristics of the vampire: sleeping by day in its coffin, rising at dusk to feed on the blood of the living; the ability to shapeshift into a bat, wolf, or mist;... (more)
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  Our Vampires, Ourselves

  by Nina Auerbach

  Nina Auerbach shows how every age embraces the vampire it needs, and gets the vampire it deserves. Working with a wide range of texts, as well as movies and television, Auerbach locates vampires at the heart of our national experience and uses them as a lens for viewing the last two hundred years of Anglo-American cultural history. "<Auerbach> has seen more Hammer movies than I (or the monsters) have had... (more)
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  Spooky Encounters: A Gwailo's Guide to Hong Kong Horror

  by Daniel O'Brien

  Flying ghosts, hopping vampires, seductive spirits, tree demons, evil sorcerers, living skeletons, possessed limbs and giant predatory tongues! Tsui Hark's A Chinese Ghost Story in 1987 gave many Western viewers their first taste of supernatural thrills, Oriental style. Yet the film was a comparatively late entry in a well-established genre. From Sammo Hung's Spooky Encounters to King Hu's valedictory Painted... (more)
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  Cat People (BFI Film Classics)

  by Kim Newman

  Illustrated Released in 1943, Cat People was the first production from the unit set up by RKO to make low-cost, high-return horror movies. Producer Val Lewton was handed the title and ordered to come up with a film to fit. He and director Jacques Tourneur created an innovative picture about a Serbian emigree in New York (Simone Simon) who's convinced she's suffering from a hereditary curse that will transform... (more)
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  The Quest for the Wicker Man (Quest for S.)

  One of the greatest films ever made in Scotland, "The Wicker Man" garnered a cult following for its intense, discomforting images. This thorough and informative read explores the roots of this powerful film in the folklore and pagan beliefs that inspired it.
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  Japanese Horror Cinema

  by Jay McRoy

  A much-needed critical introduction to some of the most important Japanese horror films produced over the last fifty years, Japanese Horror Cinema provides an insightful examination of the tradition's most significant trends and themes. The book examines the genre's dominant aesthetic, cultural, political and technological underpinnings, and individual chapters address key topics such as: the debt Japanese horror... (more)
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  Reading the Vampire (Popular Fictions)

  by Ken Gelder

  Insatiable bloodlust, dangerous sexualities, the horror of the undead, uncharted Transylvanian wildernesses and a morbid fascination with the "other:" the legend of the vampire continues to haunt the popular imagination. Reading the Vampire examines the creature in all its various manifestations and cultural meanings. Ken Gelder investigates vampire narratives in literature and in film--from early... (more)
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  The Horror Reader

  by Ken Gelder

  Spanning the history of horror in literature and film, from Edgar Allen Poe to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Horror Reader brings together essential writings on this most spectacular and controversial of genres. It covers classic gothic literature like Frankenstein to lesbian vampire movies and new Asian horror. An introduction by Ken Gelder and a preface before each section prepares the reader for the... (more)
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  The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis (Popular Fictions Series)

  by Barbara Creed

  The Monstrous-Feminine examines how horror films play on men's fears of women. Barbara Creed argues that when a woman is constructed as monstrous, it is almost always in reference to her capacity to reproduce and to mother. Using detailed readings of Carrie, The Exorcist, Psycho and Alien among others, Creed identifies the seven faces of female monstrosity--archaic mother; monstrous womb; vampire; witch; possessed... (more)
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  Framing Monsters: Fantasy Film and Social Alienation

  by Joshua David Bellin

  The canon of popular cinema has long been rife with fantastic tales, yet critical studies have too often expediently mixed the fantasy genre with its kindred science fiction and horror films or dismissed it altogether as escapist fare. Framing Monsters: Fantasy Film and Social Alienation reconsiders the cultural significance of this storytelling mode by investigating how films seemingly divorced from reality and... (more)