Author : Steve Hutchison
Publisher : Tales of Terror
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 46,57 MB
Release : 2023-02-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1778870589
Included in this book are detailed analyses of 1980s horror and horror-adjacent films listed in chronological order. Each evaluation consists of a picture of one or multiple major antagonists, a release year, a synopsis, and eight ratings: Stars, Story, Creativity, Acting, Quality, Gimmick, Rewatch, and Creeps.
Author : Charles F. Rosenay
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,24 MB
Release : 2021-08-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781629337647
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Author : Paul Tremblay
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 37,18 MB
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062363255
WINNER OF THE 2015 BRAM STOKER AWARD FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A NOVEL A chilling thriller that brilliantly blends psychological suspense and supernatural horror, reminiscent of Stephen King's The Shining, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, and William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist. The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia. To her parents’ despair, the doctors are unable to stop Marjorie’s descent into madness. As their stable home devolves into a house of horrors, they reluctantly turn to a local Catholic priest for help. Father Wanderly suggests an exorcism; he believes the vulnerable teenager is the victim of demonic possession. He also contacts a production company that is eager to document the Barretts’ plight. With John, Marjorie’s father, out of work for more than a year and the medical bills looming, the family agrees to be filmed, and soon find themselves the unwitting stars of The Possession, a hit reality television show. When events in the Barrett household explode in tragedy, the show and the shocking incidents it captures become the stuff of urban legend. Fifteen years later, a bestselling writer interviews Marjorie’s younger sister, Merry. As she recalls those long ago events that took place when she was just eight years old, long-buried secrets and painful memories that clash with what was broadcast on television begin to surface—and a mind-bending tale of psychological horror is unleashed, raising vexing questions about memory and reality, science and religion, and the very nature of evil.
Author : J. L. Michaels
Publisher :
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 36,40 MB
Release : 2019-07-19
Category :
ISBN : 9781080927326
It is the year 2002. As Delilah Maconwood struggles with her mother's untimely death, old memories surface and Delilah's marriage starts to crumble. Outside support offers a glimmer of hope until Delilah experiences a traumatic event that escalates her mental unraveling and eventually leads to bloodshed. ROLLER SKATE SKINNY is written from the perspective of an unreliable (mentally ill) narrator in the midst of a life crisis. The novel is comparable to My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite or The Lost by Sarah Beth Durst. It is also comparable to We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver. Award winning editor M. T. Hussey stated that Roller Skate Skinny contains "great visual moments and Delilah's trials and tribulations are vividly told. There are some fascinating decisions and a sense of inevitability that draws the reader in."
Author : Stephen Graham Jones
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 27,78 MB
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1982137657
Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel In her quickly gentrifying rural lake town Jade sees recent events only her encyclopedic knowledge of horror films could have prepared her for in this latest chilling novel that “will give you nightmares. The good kind, of course” (BuzzFeed) from the Jordan Peele of horror literature, Stephen Graham Jones. “Some girls just don’t know how to die…” Shirley Jackson meets Friday the 13th in My Heart Is a Chainsaw, written by the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians Stephen Graham Jones, called “a literary master” by National Book Award winner Tananarive Due and “one of our most talented living writers” by Tommy Orange. Alma Katsu calls My Heart Is a Chainsaw “a homage to slasher films that also manages to defy and transcend genre.” On the surface is a story of murder in small-town America. But beneath is its beating heart: a biting critique of American colonialism, Indigenous displacement, and gentrification, and a heartbreaking portrait of a broken young girl who uses horror movies to cope with the horror of her own life. Jade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants nothing to do with her. She lives in her own world, a world in which protection comes from an unusual source: horror movies…especially the ones where a masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them. And Jade narrates the quirky history of Proofrock as if it is one of those movies. But when blood actually starts to spill into the waters of Indian Lake, she pulls us into her dizzying, encyclopedic mind of blood and masked murderers, and predicts exactly how the plot will unfold. Yet, even as Jade drags us into her dark fever dream, a surprising and intimate portrait emerges…a portrait of the scared and traumatized little girl beneath the Jason Voorhees mask: angry, yes, but also a girl who easily cries, fiercely loves, and desperately wants a home. A girl whose feelings are too big for her body. My Heart Is a Chainsaw is her story, her homage to horror and revenge and triumph.
Author : Mark Sable
Publisher : Aftershock Comics
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 49,34 MB
Release : 2021-07-20
Category :
ISBN : 9781949028652
Miskatonic Valley holds many mysteries - cultists worshipping old gods, a doctor deadset on resurrecting the recently deceased, a house overrun by rats in the walls - but none more recent than a series of bombings targeting the Valley's elite. To Bureau of Investigation (the predecessor of the FBI) chief J. Edgar Hoover, there can be no other explanation than those responsible for similar actions during the Red Scare of the 1920s. But when the brilliant, hard-nosed investigator Miranda Keller is sent to stop the bombings, she uncovers an unimaginable occult conspiracy, one that may cost her both her job and her sanity. From writer Mark Sable (WAR ON TERROR: GODKILLERS, Graveyard of Empires) and artist Giorgio Pontrelli (Dylan Dog), MISKATONIC is a mix of historical crime fiction and Lovecraftian-horror that dives deep into the American nightmare.
Author : Pierre Levy
Publisher : SelfMadeHero
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,24 MB
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781906838386
It's a perfect beach day, or so thought the family, young couple, a few tourists, and a refugee who all end up in the same secluded, idyllic cove filled with rock pools and sandy shore, encircled by green, densely vegetated cliffs. But this utopia hides a dark secret. First there is the dead body of a woman found floating in the crystal-clear water. Then there is the odd fact that all the children are aging rapidly. Soon everybody is growing older--every half hour--and there doesn't seem to be any way out of the cove. Levy's dramatic storytelling works seamlessly with Peeters's sinister art to create a profoundly disturbing and fantastical mystery. Praise for Sandcastle "Begins like a murder mystery, continues like an episode of The Twilight Zone, and finishes with a kind of existentialism that wouldn't be out of place in a Von Trier film." --Publishers Weekly, starred review "Sandcastle is a fast 112-page read you won't be able to put down." --Cleveland.com "Peeters and L vy convey some profound, if profoundly unsubtle, truths about the human condition. Weighty stuff, expertly told." --The Comics Bulletin
Author : Howard David Ingham
Publisher :
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 22,2 MB
Release : 2018-07-08
Category : Horror films
ISBN : 9781722748814
Secret, strange, dark, impure and dissonant...Enter the haunted landscapes of folk horror, a world of pagan village conspiracies, witch finders, and teenagers awakening to evil; of dark fairy tales, backwoods cults and obsolete technologies. Beginning with the classics Night of the Demon, Witchfinder General, The Wicker Man and Blood on Satan's Claw, We Don't Go Back surveys the genre of screen folk horror from across the world. Travelling from Watership Down to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, with every stop inbetween, We Don't Go Back is a thoughtful, funny and essential overview of folk horror in TV and cinema."A beautiful rumination on the dark films and television that shaped me and a generation of odd children, for good or ill, worth a year of your time, because you won't just read the book, you'll feel a burning desire to watch everything mentioned within." - Robin Ince"A comprehensive, accessible and often riotously funny tome weaving together folk horror in all its forms, from British television to the American backwoods, from Eastern European fairytales to the vengeful ghosts of East Asia. Ingham explores uncanny landscapes haunted by things buried, old cultures converging with the reluctance of contemporary reason, that very tension that gives his book its name. He attempts to both define folk horror and free it from definition, creating the ultimate guide to the genre's manifestations on film and offering a convincing argument as to why the genre resonates so compellingly with people today." - Kier-La Janisse, author of House of Psychotic Women
Author : Steve Hutchison
Publisher : Tales of Terror
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 30,99 MB
Release : 2023-04-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1778872107
Included in this book are bite-size reviews of the 3 best horror movies each year between 1960 and 2021. Also listed are 27 character-based categories of horror movies (animal, cannibal, insect, serial killer, child, cultist, alien, giant, mutant, parasite, plant, robot, clown, doll, doppelganger, genie, psychic, toy, wizard, demon, ghost, lycanthrope, mummy, vampire, zombie, reaper, revenant). Each review consists of a picture of one or multiple major antagonists, a release year, a synopsis, and five ratings: “stars”, “story”, “creativity”, “acting”, and “quality”. Each film is assigned a gold, silver, or bronze award.
Author : Steven Jay Schneider
Publisher : Apple Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,92 MB
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781845436568
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...
