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The Conjuring Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. 9781800859272
RRP: £22.99£20.72In 2013 an apparently simple, back-to-basics scary movie transformed horror cinema for the rest of the decade. Based on the allegedly true story of the Perron family haunting and subsequent investigation by ghost hunters Ed and Lorraine Warren, The... -
Out There: The Science Behind Sci-Fi Film and TV by Ariel Waldman 9780762481668
RRP: £22.00£13.10Explore the science behind some of your favorite popular science fiction tropes--from escaping a black hole to riding a space elevator to the stars-in this illustrated guide from NASA advisor and host of the popular Tested podcast OffWorld. Whether it's... -
Blood on Black Wax: Horror Soundtracks on Vinyl (Expanded Edition) by Aaron Lupton
RRP: £24.99£19.08BRAND NEW & EXPANDED EDITION! Packed with dozens of additional horror titles and containing limited edition enhanced packaging (gilded foil page edges + ribbon marker). Are you obsessed with John Carpenter's iconic music for the Halloween series? Do... -
Terror in the Desert: Dark Cinema of the American Southwest by Brad Sykes 9781476672410
RRP: £21.99£17.97Set in the American Southwest, "desert terror" films combine elements from horror, film noir and road movies to tell stories of isolation and violence. For more than half a century, these diverse and troubling films have eluded critical classification... -
A Very Nervous Person's Guide to Horror Movies by Mathias Clasen
RRP: £18.49£16.70Why your worst nightmares about watching horror movies are unfounded Films about chainsaw killers, demonic possession, and ghostly intruders make some of us scream with joy. But while horror fans are attracted to movies designed to scare us, others... -
Puppet Master Complete: A Franchise History by Nat Brehmer 9781476676302
RRP: £28.99£23.38This book is a comprehensive history of the most successful straight-to-video horror franchise of all time: Puppet Master. It provides an in-depth exploration of all fourteen films to date-including a made-for-TV crossover and a theatrical reboot-and the... -
Night of the Living Dead by Ben Hervey
RRP: £12.99£10.94George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead is a cult classic that has resonated with audiences and independent filmmakers ever since its release in 1968. It redefined horror cinema and launched the modern zombie genre that continues with films and... -
Raising the Dead: The Work of George A. Romero by Adam Charles Hart 9780197686485
RRP: £25.99£24.45George A. Romero never intended to become a master of horror, but Night of the Living Dead made him a legend of the genre. Raising the Dead dives into the expansive, extraordinary body of work found in Romero's archive, going beyond his iconic zombie... -
Poltergeist Rob McLaughlin 9781800856981
RRP: £22.99£20.72'Created' by Steven Spielberg yet officially directed by Tobe Hooper, Poltergeist (1982) can be best described as 'family horror movie' both in its target audience and in its narrative context, the story of an All-American suburban family, the... -
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark: The Haunted Notebook of Sarah Bellows by Richard Ashley Hamilton 9781683838531
RRP: £25.00£20.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683838531Author Richard Ashley HamiltonFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions -
Horror Film and Otherness by Adam Lowenstein
RRP: £30.00£24.45What do horror films reveal about social difference in the everyday world? Criticism of the genre often relies on a dichotomy between monstrosity and normality, in which unearthly creatures and deranged killers are metaphors for society's fear of the... -
Terrors of the Flesh: The Philosophy of Body Horror in Film by David Huckvale 9781476682181
RRP: £31.99£26.43The horror and psychological denial of our mortality, along with the corruptibility of our flesh, are persistent themes in drama. Body horror films have intensified these themes in increasingly graphic terms. The aesthetic of body horror has its... -
Hammer and Beyond: The British Horror Film by Peter Hutchings 9781526151186
RRP: £25.00£22.65Peter Hutchings's Hammer and beyond remains a landmark work in British film criticism. This new, illustrated edition brings the book back into print for the first time in two decades. Featuring Hutchings's socially charged analyses of genre classics from... -
Harry Potter - Wand Magic: Artifacts from the Wizarding World by Monique Peterson 9781789098778
RRP: £19.99£9.67Every witch or wizard in the Wizarding World has a unique wand. And as Garrick Ollivander says in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, "The wand chooses the wizard." Now you can capture the magic of Harry Potter like never before and collect a stunning... -
A Cut Below: A Celebration of B Horror Movies, 1950s-1980s by Scott Drebit 9781476691954
£33.90Horror films have been around for more than 100 years, and they continue to make a large impact on popular culture as they reflect their contemporary zeitgeist. Between the mid-1950s and mid-1980s, drive-in theaters were at their peak of popularity, and... -
The Wicker Man by Steve A. Wiggins 9781837643882
RRP: £19.99£18.18Many fans of Robin Hardy's The Wicker Man (1973) may know that this classic is considered a fine sample of folk horror. Few will consider that it's also a prime example of holiday horror. Holiday horror draws its energy from the featured festive day,... -
Scrooge Colin Fleming 9781800857049
£24.21This Devil's Advocate explores the cinematic wonders of Brian Desmond Hurst's much loved 1951 adaptation of A Christmas Carol, Scrooge, through the prism of horror cinema, arguing that the film has less in common with cosy festive tradition than it does... -
Satanic Shadows: Depictions Of Hell And The Devil In Classic Cinema by G. H. Janus 9781840686951
RRP: £17.95£12.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840686951Author G. H. JanusFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Creation BooksPublisher Creation Books -
Army of the Dead: A Film by Zack Snyder: The Making of the Film by Peter Aperlo 9781789095425
RRP: £29.99£23.46From the director of Dawn of the Dead, Watchmen, and Man of Steel, comes Army of the Dead, Zack Snyder's eagerly awaited return to the zombie scene, staring Dave Bautista. Following a zombie outbreak in Las Vegas, a group of mercenaries take the ultimate... -
A Scary Little Christmas: A History of Yuletide Horror Films, 1972-2020 by Matthew C. DuPee
RRP: £35.99£30.00Controversial yet beloved among audiences, Christmas-themed horror movies emerged in the early 1970s and gained a notorious reputation with Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984), depicting Santa as an ax-wielding maniac. Some parents and conservative groups... -
The Camera Lies: Acting for Hitchcock by Dan Callahan 9780197515327
RRP: £32.49£27.40Alfred Hitchcock is said to have once remarked, "Actors are cattle," a line that has stuck in the public consciousness ever since. For Hitchcock, acting was a matter of contrast and counterpoint, valuing subtlety and understatement over flashiness. He... -
Screening Stephen King: Adaptation and the Horror Genre in Film and Television by Simon Brown
RRP: £23.99£20.84Since the 1970s, the name Stephen King has been synonymous with horror. His vast number of books has spawned a similar number of feature films and TV shows, and together they offer a rich opportunity to consider how one writer's work has been adapted... -
The Vampire Film: Undead Cinema by Jeffrey Weinstock 9780231162012
RRP: £17.99£14.38This introductory volume offers an elegant analysis of the enduring appeal of the cinematic vampire. From Georges Melies' early cinematic experiments to Twilight and Let the Right One In, the history of vampires in cinema can be organized by a handful of... -
Cape Fear by Rob Daniel
RRP: £22.99£20.72Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear (1991) opens with a shot of water and climaxes on a raging river. Despite, or perhaps because of, the film's great commercial success, critical analysis of the film typically does not delve beneath the surface of Scorsese's... -
Horror in Space: Critical Essays on a Film Subgenre Michele Brittany 9781476664057
RRP: £21.99£18.83In sharp contrast to many 1960s science fiction films, with idealized views of space exploration, Ridley Scott's Alien (1979) terrified audiences, depicting a harrowing and doomed deep-space mission. The Alien films launched a new generation of horror... -
White Terror: The Horror Film from Obama to Trump by Russell Meeuf
RRP: £16.99£15.88What kinds of terror lurk beneath the surface of White respectability? Many of the top-grossing US horror films between 2008 and 2016 relied heavily on themes of White, patriarchal fear and fragility: outsiders disrupting the sanctity of the almost... -
Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1970-1979 by Roberto Curti 9781476664699
RRP: £28.99£24.45Italian Gothic horror films of the 1970s were influenced by the violent giallo movies and adults-only comics of the era, resulting in a graphic approach to the genre. Stories often featured over-the-top violence and nudity and pushed the limits of what... -
Faith Horror: Cinematic Visions of Satanism, Paganism and Witchcraft, 1966-1978 by Lmk Sheppard
RRP: £35.99£30.36Faith horror refers to a significant outcropping of mid-1960s and 1970s films and adaptative novels that depict non-Christian communities of evil doers and their activities. Before this period, the classical horror villain was ultimately ineffectual. The... -
The Nosferatu Story: The Seminal Horror Film, Its Predecessors and Its Enduring Legacy Rolf Giesen 9781476672984
RRP: £21.99£18.83Director F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, made in 1921, right after the devastating Spanish Flu pandemic, has become the ultimate cult classic among horror film buffs around the world. For years there was much speculation about the... -
Re-Animator Eddie Falvey 9781800859418
RRP: £21.99£19.87Since its release at the mid-point of the 1980s American horror boom, Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator (1985) has endured as one of the most beloved cult horror films of that era. Greeted by enthusiastic early reviews, Re-Animator has maintained a spot at the... -
A History of Horror by Wheeler Winston Dixon
RRP: £21.99£20.18Ever since horror leapt from popular fiction to the silver screen in the late 1890s, viewers have experienced fear and pleasure in exquisite combination. Wheeler Winston Dixon's fully revised and updated A History of Horror is still the only book to... -
The Evil Dead by Lloyd Haynes
RRP: £22.99£20.72Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead (1981) is one of the most inventive and energetic horror movies of the last 40 years. Released during a period in which the stalk-and-slash cycle had blunted the horror genre of much of its creative edge, Raimi's debut feature... -
A Place of Darkness: The Rhetoric of Horror in Early American Cinema by Kendall R. Phillips
RRP: £27.99£24.14Horror is one of the most enduringly popular genres in cinema. The term "horror film" was coined in 1931 between the premiere of Dracula and the release of Frankenstein, but monsters, ghosts, demons, and supernatural and horrific themes have been popular... -
Monstrous Forms: Moving Image Horror Across Media by Adam Charles Hart
RRP: £30.49£23.16It makes us jump. It makes us scream. It haunts our nightmares. So why do we watch horror? Why do we play it? What could possibly be appealing about a genre that tries to terrify us? Why would we subject ourselves to shriek-inducing shocks, or spend... -
Global Horror Cinema Today: 28 Representative Films from 17 Countries by Jon Towlson 9781476671536
RRP: £28.99£23.38The horror film is thriving worldwide. Filmmakers in countries as diverse as the USA, Australia, Israel, Spain, France, Great Britain, Iran, and South Korea are using the horror genre to address the emerging fears and anxieties of their cultures. This... -
Lost in the Dark: A World History of Horror Film by Brad Weismann 9781496833211
RRP: £24.95£14.85Two horror films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2018, and one of them-The Shape of Water-won. Since 1990, the production of horror films has risen exponentially worldwide, and in 2013, horror films earned an estimated $400... -
Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis by John Vervaeke 9781013287558
RRP: £30.95£27.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013287558Author John VervaekeFormat HardbackPage Count 100Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g -
What Ought to Scare You: Affect and Hollywood Horror Discourses, 1922-1968 by H. Marshall Leicester 9781476689791
RRP: £53.99£45.95Using the Hollywood studio system (1931-1960) as a historical center, this book performs close readings of classic horror films (such as Frankenstein and Cat People) while asking the following three questions: What about this movie is weird? What does... -
31 Days of Halloween - Volume 1: The October Horror Movie Dice Game by Steve Hutchison 9781777623319
RRP: £90.95£69.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781777623319Author Steve HutchisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 500Imprint Tales of TerrorPublisher Tales of TerrorWeight(grams) 152g -
Descent of the Gods: A Horror Movie Script About a Reality TV Show and Alien Abduction by Brian James Godawa 9781942858607
RRP: £11.31£8.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942858607Author Brian James GodawaFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Embedded PicturesPublisher Embedded PicturesWeight(grams) 327g