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Cronenberg on Cronenberg by Chris Rodley
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.03With films such as The Brood and Videodrome, David Cronenberg established himself as Canada's most provocative director. With subsequent movies such as The Dead Zone, The Fly, Dead Ringers and Naked... -
Monstrous Adaptations: Generic and Thematic Mutations in Horror Film by Richard Hand 9780719076039
RRP: $116.10Booksplease Price: $102.56The fifteen groundbreaking essays contained in this book address the concept of adaptation in relation to horror cinema. Adaptation is not only a key cultural practice and strategy for filmmakers,... -
A Guide for Murdered Children Bruce Wagner 9781648210570
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.10"In her astonishing thriller, Sarah Sparrow has joined the ranks of Shirley Jackson and Stephen King. A warning: there is no safe place to read this book." -David Cronenberg Originally Published... -
Dark Justice: Dominion: Dominion by John Wagner
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $19.69LOST IN SPACE The cargo ship Solips, en-route to a colony on a remote planet, finds three figures drifting through space. But these might prove to be the last passengers the ship ever picks up!... -
Stephen King on the Big Screen by Mark Browning 9781841502458
Booksplease Price: $33.62From 1976 to the present day, there have been over 45 films adapted from the spine-tingling works of Stephen King. In Stephen King on the Big Screen, Mark Browning addresses the question of why some... -
Terrors of the Flesh: The Philosophy of Body Horror in Film by David Huckvale 9781476682181
RRP: $41.27Booksplease Price: $35.58The 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... -
The Ghost of One's Self: Doppelgangers in Mystery, Horror and Science Fiction Films Paul Meehan 9781476665665
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $32.50For millennia people have held folk beliefs about the existence of the doppelganger--"double walker" in German--a look-alike second self that is often the antithesis of one's identity and is... -
100 Cult Films by Ernest Mathijs
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $28.96Some films should never have been made. They are too unsettling, too dangerous, too challenging, too outrageous and even too badly made to be let loose on unsuspecting audiences.Yet these films, from... -
The Rioting of Inferno Ethan John Cousins 9781739663780
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $14.27The Rioting of Inferno invites readers to delve into the darkest corners of the human psyche in a dazzling collection of stories that challenge the boundaries of reality and human morality. Written... -
Monstrous Adaptations: Generic and Thematic Mutations in Horror Film by Richard Hand
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $25.21The fifteen groundbreaking essays contained in this book address the concept of adaptation in relation to horror cinema. Adaptation is not only a key cultural practice and strategy for filmmakers,... -
Food & Cooking of Romania & Bulgaria by Silvena Johan Lauta
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.47In this beautiful new book, an enlightening introduction describes the geography, history and vibrant culture of Romania and Bulgaria, including a section on festivals and traditions. An expert guide... -
Cult Cinema: An Introduction by Ernest Mathijs 9781405173742
Booksplease Price: $110.49Cult Cinema: an Introduction presents the first in-depth academic examination of all aspects of the field of cult cinema, including audiences, genres, and theoretical perspectives. Represents the... -
TWICE: A Novel Susanna Kleeman 9781789046212
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95IS NIM ON THE RUN WITH HER EX OR HIS DOUBLE? A thrilling look at coercive control on a global and personal scale, TWICE is about doubles, false fronts, ex-loves, the secret history of the world... -
Strontium Dog Search and Destroy: The Starlord Years by John Wagner
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $19.08The earliest adventures of the cult character back in print, and in colour for the first time in decades! THE TOUGHEST BOUNTY HUNTER IN THE GALAXY! There was a time in the 22nd century where man's... -
The Thing: A Phenomenology of Horror by Dylan Trigg 9781782790778
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.15What is the human body? Both the most familiar and unfamiliar of things, the body is the centre of experience but also the site of a prehistory anterior to any experience. Alien and uncanny, this... -
Cult Cinema: An Introduction by Ernest Mathijs 9781405173735
Booksplease Price: $39.41Cult Cinema: an Introduction presents the first in-depth academic examination of all aspects of the field of cult cinema, including audiences, genres, and theoretical perspectives. Represents the... -
Film World: The Director's Interviews by Michel Ciment 9781845204587
Booksplease Price: $55.12Film World brings together key interviews with cinema's leading directors. The directors chosen represent many of the most influential film-makers of the last 50 years. All have been selected because... -
The Vampire in Science Fiction Film and Literature Paul Meehan 9780786474875
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $32.50This examination of the history of vampires within the science fiction realm also analyses the role of science and pseudo-science from the 18th century to modern times. The vampire's connection with... -
JUDGE DREDD COMP CASE FILE 4 by John Wagner
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $20.63In Mega-City One crime doesn't pay!Judge Dredd - the future lawman with the powers of judge, jury and executioner at his disposal - faces some of his most challenging cases yet in this fourth volume... -
Nightmares in Ecstasy by Brendan Vidito 9781944866235
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.75Nightmares in Ecstasy is a collection of thirteen stories of surreal body horror. Within its pages, the line between eroticism and terror, desire and death, is blurred. Damaged souls hurtle, as if in... -
Mediamorphosis: Kafka and the Moving Image by Shai Biderman
RRP: $113.52Booksplease Price: $89.89The idea of a visual manifestation of the work of Franz Kafka was denied by many-first and foremost by Kafka himself, who famously urged his publisher to avoid an image of an insect on the cover of... -
Intimacy in Cinema: Critical Essays on English Language Films David Roche 9780786479245
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $32.50Though intimacy has been a wide concern in the humanities, it has received little critical attention in film studies. This collection of new essays investigates both the potential intimacy of... -
Grotesque by Justin Edwards 9780415519090
RRP: $148.35Booksplease Price: $130.20Grotesque provides an invaluable and accessible guide to the use (and abuse) of this complex literary term. Justin D. Edwards and Rune Graulund explore the influence of the grotesque on cultural... -
Conversations with Russell Banks by David Roche 9781604737455
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $35.35If Russell Banks (b. 1940) says he doesn't ""think about [his] reader at all when [he's] writing,"" he clearly enjoys talking with his actual readers, whether they be students, writers or academics,... -
Grotesque by Justin Edwards
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $31.81Grotesque provides an invaluable and accessible guide to the use (and abuse) of this complex literary term. Justin D. Edwards and Rune Graulund explore the influence of the grotesque on cultural... -
Silicone God by Victoria Brooks 9781913430160
RRP: $15.48Booksplease Price: $15.09"I'm embarrassed when I remember Les. Anything but him, with his crisp and coleslaw breath, his tongue slipping inside my mouth - a mouth much too small. A tongue prising the shell away from the... -
Mediamorphosis: Kafka and the Moving Image by Shai Biderman 9780231176453
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $34.96The idea of a visual manifestation of the work of Franz Kafka was denied by many-first and foremost by Kafka himself, who famously urged his publisher to avoid an image of an insect on the cover of... -
Asylum by Patrick McGrath
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43A story of self-obsession narrated by the point of view of a psychiatrist, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.As a psychiatrist in a top-security mental hospital in the 1950s, Peter... -
Posthuman Metamorphosis: Narrative and Systems by Bruce Clarke 9780823228508
RRP: $98.04Booksplease Price: $86.95From Dr. Moreau's Beast People to David Cronenberg's Brundlefly, Stanislaw Lem's robot constructors in the Cyberiad to Octavia Butler's human/alien constructs in the Xenogenesis trilogy, Posthuman... -
Marilyn's Monsters Tommy Redolf 9781594655357
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $22.08The woods are filled with freaks and monsters who all want a taste of Marilyn's dark past. This is Marilyn Monroe's dark journey like you've never seen before.About the AuthorBORN IN 1979, TOMMY... -
Judge Dredd - Mechanismo: Machine Law by John Wagner
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.95A buddy cop tale like no other! Man and mechanismo, on the mean streets of Mega-City One. The next chapter in the legendary Judge Dredd epic, penned by incomparable Judge Dredd co-creator John Wagner... -
The Emotional Life of Postmodern Film: Affect Theory's Other Pansy Duncan 9781138597914
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $59.26Emotion and Postmodernism: is it possible to imagine an odder couple, stranger bedfellows, less bad company? The Emotional Life of Postmodern Film brings this unlikely pair into sustained dialogue,... -
International Horror Film Directors: Global Fear by Danny Shipka
Booksplease Price: $45.30Horror films have for decades commanded major global audiences, tapping into deep-rooted fears that cross national and cultural boundaries in their ability to spark terror. This book brings together... -
The New American Crime Film by Matthew Sorrento 9780786459209
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $32.50The American crime film has recently enjoyed a surge in popularity and proliferation, making it the most pervasive genre in contemporary cinema. Though it now tackles current issues, it continues... -
Gothic Dissections in Film and Literature: The Body in Parts by Ian Conrich 9781137303578
RRP: $154.79Booksplease Price: $151.46This is the first book-length study to systematically and theoretically analyse the use and representation of individual body parts in Gothic fiction. Moving between filmic and literary texts and... -
JUDGE DREDD COMP CASE FILE 1 by John Wagner
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.86The global best-selling graphic novel series - over half a million copies sold!Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files collects the adventures of the iconic British character, presented in chronological... -
The Scar of Visibility: Medical Performances and Contemporary Art by Petra Kuppers
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $27.30Contemporary visual and performance artists have adopted modern medical technologies such as MRIs and computer imaging-and the bodily access they imply-to reveal their limitations. In doing so they... -
A Vision of the Orient: Texts, Intertexts, and Contexts of Madame Butterfly by Jonathan Wisenthal 9781442613287
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $29.94Best known as the story from the 1904 Puccini opera, the compelling modern myth of Madame Butterfly has been read, watched, and re-interpreted for over a century, from Pierre Loti's 1887 novel Madame... -
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Ghost Town: Tales of Manhattan Then and Now by Patrick McGrath 9780747574293 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $3.62A man is haunted by the memory of his mother standing under a gibbet with a rope round her neck. It is the American War of Independence, and having defied the British forces occupying New York she... -
Cape Fear by Rob Daniel 9781800857018
Booksplease Price: $109.39Martin 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...