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The Shining by Roger Luckhurst
Booksplease Price: £11.06Stanley Kubrick hailed The Shining as 'the scariest horror film of all time' before its release in 1980. Though the film opened to poor reviews, it has since become one of the most admired horror... -
Alien by Roger Luckhurst
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.51A legendary fusion of science fiction and horror, Alien (1979) is one of the most enduring modern myths of cinema - its famously visceral scenes acting like a traumatic wound we seem compelled to... -
The Trauma Question by Roger Luckhurst
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37In this book, Roger Luckhurst both introduces and advances the fields of cultural memory and trauma studies, tracing the ways in which ideas of trauma have become a major element in contemporary... -
Gothic: An Illustrated History by Roger Luckhurst
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.10Crumbling ruins, undead fiends, dark alleys and forests teeming with horrors seen and unseen: the tendrils of the Gothic have crept out of the architecture of churches, mosques and grand houses and... -
Science Fiction by Roger Luckhurst 9780745628936
Booksplease Price: £21.68In this new and timely cultural history of science fiction, Roger Luckhurst examines the genre from its origins in the late nineteenth century to its latest manifestations. The book introduces and... -
The Cambridge Companion to Dracula by Roger Luckhurst
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £20.41Bram Stoker's Dracula is the most famous vampire in literature and film. This new collection of sixteen essays brings together a range of internationally renowned scholars to provide a series of... -
Corridors: Passages of Modernity by Roger Luckhurst 9781789140538
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £28.60We spend our lives moving through passages, hallways, corridors, and gangways, yet these channeling spaces do not feature in architectural histories, monographs, or guidebooks. They are overlooked,... -
The Cambridge Companion to Dracula by Roger Luckhurst 9781107153172
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.63Bram Stoker's Dracula is the most famous vampire in literature and film. This new collection of sixteen essays brings together a range of internationally renowned scholars to provide a series of... -
Zombies: A Cultural History by Roger Luckhurst 9781780236698
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.65Zombies: A Cultural History, now available in paperback, sifts materials from anthropology, folklore, travel writing, colonial histories, long-forgotten pulp literature, B-movies, medical history and... -
The Ghost Stories of M. R. James by Roger Luckhurst
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.83The second in a series of republished classic literature, The Ghost Stories of M. R. James collects the tales that best illustrate his quiet mastery of the ghost story form. Running through each of... -
Gothic: An Illustrated History by Professor Roger Luckhurst 9780691229164
Booksplease Price: £33.01A richly illustrated history of the Gothic across a wide range of media, including architecture, literature, and filmThe word Gothic conjures associations with the dark and melancholy, the weird and... -
Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead Roger Luckhurst 9780500027707
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.10An arresting and poignant cultural history of graveyards, from early burial sites to now. Why, how and where do we inter our dead? How do we set out to remember them? The Pyramids of Giza, the... -
Late Victorian Gothic Tales by Roger Luckhurst 9780199538874
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.13'He was a man of fairly firm fibre, but there was something in this sudden, uncontrollable shriek of horror which chilled his blood and pringled in his skin. Coming in such a place and at such an... -
Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead by Professor Roger Luckhurst 9780691278377
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £25.04From the author of Gothic, a marvelously illustrated cultural history of graves and graveyards, from the earliest known burial sites to today’s green burialsWhy, how, and where do we inter our dead?... -
Literature and The Contemporary: Fictions and Theories of the Present by Roger Luckhurst 9780582312043
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £55.31At the end of the century, much criticism has become devoted to `last things': the end of history, the end of the subject, the end of the novel, the end, even, of the end. Literature and the... -
Science Fiction Roger Luckhurst (Birkbeck College, University of London) 9780745628929
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £56.50In this new and timely cultural history of science fiction, Roger Luckhurst examines the genre from its origins in the late nineteenth century to its latest manifestations. The book introduces and... -
The Mummy's Curse: The true history of a dark fantasy by Roger Luckhurst 9780198718802
Booksplease Price: £21.75In the winter of 1922-23 archaeologist Howard Carter and his wealthy patron George Herbert, the Fifth Earl of Carnarvon, sensationally opened the tomb of Tutenkhamen. Six weeks later Herbert, the... -
The Mummy's Curse: The true history of a dark fantasy by Roger Luckhurst 9780199698714
Booksplease Price: £18.40In the winter of 1922-23 archaeologist Howard Carter and his wealthy patron George Herbert, the Fifth Earl of Carnarvon, sensationally opened the tomb of Tutenkhamen. Six weeks later Herbert, the... -
The Angle Between Two Walls: The Fiction of J G Ballard by Roger Luckhurst 9780853238317
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.76This is the first theoretically informed book on Ballard, reading his work not only within the science fiction genre, but also connecting it to issues of popular culture and legitimisation,... -
Light In August by William Faulkner 9780099283157
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49A landmark in American fiction, Light in August explores Faulkner's central theme: the nature of evil. Joe Christmas - a man doomed, deracinated and alone - wanders the Deep South in search of an... -
Light in August by William Faulkner 9781784878580
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49VINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIESSpine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics.A landmark in American... -
Ian McEwan's Enduring Love: A Routledge Study Guide by Peter Childs 9780415345590
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Ian McEwan is one of Britain's most inventive and important contemporary writers. Also adapted as a film, his novel Enduring Love (1997) is a tale of obsession that has both troubled and enthralled... -
Science Fiction by Mark Bould 9780415458108
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £111.35Science Fiction explores the genre from 1895 to the present day, drawing on examples from over forty countries. It raises questions about the relationship between science fiction, science and... -
Science Fiction Dr Mark Bould 9780415458115
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £26.38Science Fiction explores the genre from 1895 to the present day, drawing on examples from over forty countries. It raises questions about the relationship between science fiction, science and... -
Trauma and the Discourse of Climate Change: Literature, Psychoanalysis and Denial by Lee Zimmerman
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £33.23The more the global north has learned about the existential threat of climate change, the faster it has emitted greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. In Trauma and the Discourse of Climate Change,... -
Trauma in Contemporary Literature: Narrative and Representation Marita Nadal 9781138547919
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.34Trauma in Contemporary Literature analyzes contemporary narrative texts in English in the light of trauma theory, including essays by scholars of different countries who approach trauma from a... -
Technologies of the Gothic in Literature and Culture: Technogothics by Justin D. Edwards
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80This volume, a collection with contributions from some of the major scholars of the Gothic in literature and culture, reflects on how recent Gothic studies have foregrounded a plethora of... -
The Operatic Archive: American Opera as History by Colleen Renihan
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80The Operatic Archive: American Opera as History extends the growing interdisciplinary conversation in opera studies by drawing on new research in performance studies and the philosophy of history... -
Apocalyptic Discourse in Contemporary Culture: Post-Millennial Perspectives on the End of the World Monica Germana 9781138547438
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £49.89This interdisciplinary collection of essays focuses on critical and theoretical responses to the apocalypse of the late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century cultural production. Examining the... -
Literature and the Anthropocene Pieter Vermeulen 9781138543744
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.14The Anthropocene has fundamentally changed the way we think about our relation to nonhuman life and to the planet. This book is the first to critically survey how the Anthropocene is enriching the... -
Supernatural Horror Short Stories by Flame Tree Studio
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.26Following the great success of our Gothic Fantasy, deluxe edition short story compilations, Ghosts, Horror, Science Fiction, Murder Mayhem and Crime & Mystery this latest title crawls with the dark... -
The Gothic World Glennis Byron 9781138488274
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £46.49The Gothic World offers an extensive overview of the popular field of the Gothic, from the eighteenth century through to the present day. Encompassing the literary, it also extends critical debate in... -
Lost Souls Short Stories by Flame Tree Studio
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.26A collection of new tales with brilliant new writers and lost souls from the darkest corners of literature and legend: Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer mingles with Dante's infernal spirits and a... -
Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 8 by Gowan Dawson 9781138765863
Booksplease Price: £51.78This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component -... -
Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 5 by Gowan Dawson 9781138765832
Booksplease Price: £52.58This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component -... -
The Tale of the Living Vampyre: New Directions in Vampire Studies by Kevin Dodd 9781988963327
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £22.68An entirely original look at the evolution of a cultural phenomenon. As John Edgar Browning puts it in his Foreword, "Vampires are pure culture, and culture needs 'diggers' like Kevin Dodd.About the... -
Uncanny Modernity: Cultural Theories, Modern Anxieties by Jo Collins 9780230517714
Booksplease Price: £46.74This book explores the sense in which the uncanny may be a distinctively modern experience, the way these unnerving feelings and unsettling encounters disturb the rational presumptions of the modern... -
Victorian Gothic: Literary and Cultural Manifestations in the Nineteenth Century by Julian Wolfreys 9780333749357
Booksplease Price: £90.56To what extent did the Gothic haunt the nineteenth century? Victorian Gothic seeks to answer this as it introduces the reader to a timely revision of notions of the Gothic in all its manifestations... -
J. G. Ballard: Visions and Revisions by Jeannette Baxter 9780230278127
Booksplease Price: £46.28Providing an extensive reassessment of dominant and recurring themes in Ballard's writing, including historical violence, pornography, post 9/11 politics, and urban space, this book also engages with... -
Ghosts: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, History by Professor Peter Buse 9780333711439
Booksplease Price: £90.56Did you know that the father of psychoanalysis believed in ghosts, or that Frederick Engels attended seances? Ghosts: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, History is the first collection of theoretical...