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Studio Ghibli by Michelle Le Blanc 9781843444886
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38The animations of Japan's Studio Ghibli are amongst the most respected in the movie industry. Their delightful films rank alongside the most popular non-English language films ever made, with each... -
Jackie Chan by Colin Odell 9781903047101
Booksplease Price: £2.40The Ultimate Action Hero. For twenty years one man has dominated action cinema worldwide. He is adored by more fans than Stallone, Schwartzenegger or Willis and yet until recently was virtually... -
Department of Truth, Volume 2 by James Tynion IV
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Cole Turner thought he joined the right side of the war for the Truth. But now that he's learning more about Lee Harvey Oswald's tenure leading the Department, he's not so sure. And as Tulpas start... -
Knowing the Self: Attachment and Therapeutic Alliance for Mental Health Professionals by Yusmarhaini Yusof
Booksplease Price: £30.54This exciting new book explores attachment, alliance and therapeutic practice. Grounded in theory and built on new research findings based on adult attachment styles, it brings together ideas on... -
The Thing: A Phenomenology of Horror by Dylan Trigg 9781782790778
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64What 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... -
Underdogs Robert Ryan 9780755325931
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The city of Seattle burned down in 1889. When it was rebuilt, much of the old city remained, buried beneath the modern streets. Nobody really knows what's down there any more... Now a suspected... -
Industrial Society and the Sci-Fi Blockbuster: Social Critique in Films of Lucas, Scott and Cameron by Mark T. Decker 9780786499113
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59Can blockbuster films be socially relevant or are they just escapist diversions to entertain the masses and enrich the studios? Not every successful film contains thoughtful commentary, but some... -
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue: The Evolution of the American Horror Film Joseph Maddrey 9780786418602
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59What's weighing on Americans? Look to horror movies for your answer--they're one of the best measures of the American consciousness. From an early fascination with the Gothic, to the mutant... -
Horror in Space: Critical Essays on a Film Subgenre Michele Brittany 9781476664057
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59In 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... -
Access All Areas: Stories from a Hard Rock Life by Scott Ian
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.70Scott Ian, rhythm guitarist and cofounder of Anthrax and author of I'm the Man, collects all of his craziest hard rock stories into one balls-to-the-wall volume. Access All Areas has tales of humor,... -
In the Mouth of Madness by Michael Blyth 9781911325406
Booksplease Price: £18.80Somewhat overlooked upon its initial release in 1995, John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness has since developed a healthy cult reputation. But far more than simply a fan favorite, this closing... -
The Aliens Are Here: Extraterrestrial Visitors in American Cinema and Television by Fraser A. Sherman 9781476685045
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19They have taken the form of immigrants, invaders, lovers, heroes, cute creatures that want our candy or monsters that want our flesh. For more than a century, movies and television shows have... -
Dark Directions: Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the Modern Horror Film by Kendall R. Phillips 9780809330959
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.70A Nightmare on Elm Street. Halloween. Night of the Living Dead. These films have been indelibly stamped on moviegoers' psyches and are now considered seminal works of horror. Guiding readers along... -
Gothic Dissections in Film and Literature: The Body in Parts by Ian Conrich 9781137303578
RRP: £119.99Booksplease Price: £112.42This 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... -
Department of Truth, Vol 1: The End Of The World by James Tynion IV
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64Best of 2021 Lists:New York Public LibraryEntertainment WeeklyIndigoAnd more..."A wonderfully dizzy mixture of Men in Black, John Carpenter, Stephen King, The Matrix, and 1970s conspiracy ... -
The Long Hallway by Richard Scott Larson 9780299347246
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Growing up queer, closeted, and afraid, Richard Scott Larson found expression for his interior life in horror films, especially John Carpenter’s 1978 classic, Halloween. He developed an intense... -
Halloween: Youth Cinema and the Horrors of Growing Up by Mark Bernard
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54This book argues that Halloween need not be the first nor the most influential youth slasher film for it to hold a special place in the history of youth cinema.John Carpenter's 1978 horror hit was... -
Vampires by John Steakley 9780451462268
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.80The cult classic is back?for fans who like their vampire hunters hard-boiled.You don?t just kill vampires for the money?you do it for the satisfaction. You do it because somebody has to. You do it no... -
Halloween: The Official Making of Halloween, Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends by Abbie Bernstein 9781789095524
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £28.32Official companion book to the most recent trilogy of Halloween films featuring behind-the-scenes photography and interviews with cast and crew. Four decades after the original Halloween took the... -
Halloween by Murray Leeder 9781906733797
Booksplease Price: £25.03The 1970s represented an unusually productive and innovative period for the horror film, and John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) is the film that capped that golden age - and some say ruined it, by... -
Stephen King Films FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the King of Horror on Film by Scott Von Doviak 9781480355514
Booksplease Price: £21.25Over the past four decades the Stephen King movie has become a genre unto itself. The prolific writer's works have spawned well over 100 adaptations for both the big and small screen ranging from... -
Making Monsters: Behind the Screams With Hollywood’s Mad Scientists by Howard Berger 9781802798456
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £25.40Explore behind the scenes of the greatest monster movies ever made!What makes a great movie monster? Academy Award-winning make-up effects artist Howard Berger and acclaimed journalist Marshall... -
IT WILL RETURN: Poems 9780810126787
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.42In ""It Will Return"", her most recent volume of poems, Julia Hartwig is in dialogue with other great artists - Keats, Rimbaud, Milosz, Beethoven, Ravel, Van Gogh - considering the implications of... -
Strengths-Based Child Protection: Firm, Fair, and Friendly by Carolyn Oliver
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.92Strengths-based, solution-focused practice is one of the most exciting areas of contemporary child protection work. The demand for this protection practice has increased faster than the availability... -
Marginal Tom Carlisle 9781803360744
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.77A man returns to the cult he escaped from to bury his brother, only to discover the past is monstrous, hungry and mutating, in this devilishly gory body horror. Perfect for fans of Adam Nevill and... -
The Paradox Twins by Joshua Chaplinsky 9781944866815
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.65The Paradox Twins is a copyright infringing biographical collage that exists on the Internet, pieced together by an unknown auteur. Named for the famous thought experiment, it concerns estranged twin... -
Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film, 1978-1986 Adam Rockoff 9780786469321
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.39John Carpenter's Halloween, released on October 25, 1978, marked the beginning of the horror film's most colorful, controversial, and successful offshoot--the slasher film. Loved by fans and reviled... -
Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino 9781474624244
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.95A unique cocktail of personal memoir, cultural criticism and Hollywood history by the one and only Quentin Tarantino.The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the number one New... -
Scream by Michael J. Seidlinger 9781501386749
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.54Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. When you are born, the first thing you do is scream. Be it a response to fear, anger,... -
David Dastmalchian's Through David Dastmalchian 9798886561517
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £21.29For fans of dark fantasy and psychological thrillers, a graphic novel about a perfectionist caught between reality and a crumbling dream realm where saving the world means first facing herself.From... -
Frank Lee, After Alcatraz by David Hasteda
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £14.75Celebrating the 60th anniversary of his incredible escape from Alcatraz prison, this thrilling graphic novel imagines what Frank Lee did next... Bank Robber. Escape Artist. Genius. But on... -
Let the Right One In by Anne Billson
Booksplease Price: £25.03These days it takes a very special vampire movie to stand out. Like Twilight, the Swedish film Let the Right One In is a love story between a human and a vampire but there the resemblance ends... -
Fierce and Indomitable: The Protohistoric Non-Pueblo World in the American Southwest by Deni J. Seymour 9781607815211
Booksplease Price: £65.97Trending upward as an archaeological field of study, protohistoric mobile groups provide fascinating new directions for cutting-edge research in the American Southwest and beyond. These mobile... -
The Films of Sergio Leone by Robert C. Cumbow 9780810860414
Booksplease Price: £66.58Sergio Leone's renown as a filmmaker rests upon a fistful of films, most notably the three Westerns he made with Clint Eastwood in the mid-1960s: A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More... -
What's the Furthest Place from Here, Volume 1 by Matt Rosenberg
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.00New York Public Library "Best New Comics of 2022 for Adults!" List From Eisner nominated artist Tyler Boss (4 Kids Walk Into A Bank, Dead Dog's Bite) and bestselling writer Matthew Rosenberg (DC... -
Planks of Reason: Essays on the Horror Film by Barry Keith Grant 9780810850132
RRP: £74.99Booksplease Price: £62.55The original edition of Planks of Reason was the first academic critical anthology on horror. In retrospect, it appeared as a kind of homage to the "golden age" of the American horror film, as this... -
An Exhalation of Dead Things by Savannah Slone 9781944866945
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.31An Exhalation of Dead Things explores the intersections of mental illness, poverty, queerness, sexual assault, and resilience.Signed preorderSocial mediaFestivalsReadingsReviewsBlurbsAbout the... -
American Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11 by Terence McSweeney
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £27.48A comprehensive critical survey of the impact of 9/11 on Film, written by some of the foremost scholars in American cinemaAmerican Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11 is a ground-breaking collection of... -
Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York Cortland Rankin 9781032251363
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York examines the cinematic representation of New York from the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s, placing the dominant discourse of urban decline in dialogue... -
Archaeology Without Borders: Contact, Commerce, and Change in the U.S. Southwest and Northwestern Mexico by Maxine E McBrinn
RRP: £36.95Booksplease Price: £36.88Archaeology without Borders presents new research by leading U.S. and Mexican scholars and explores the impacts on archaeology of the border between the United States and Mexico. Including data...