The Hallmarks of Horror

The Hallmarks of Horror

PDF The Hallmarks of Horror Download

  • Author: Peter Bloedel
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781623847128
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages :


Ghostland

Ghostland

PDF Ghostland Download

  • Author: Duncan Ralston
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781988819181
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 414

People are dying to get in. The exhibits will kill to get out.Be first in line for the most haunted theme park in the park in the world - GHOSTLAND! Discover and explore hundreds of haunted buildings and cursed objects! Witness spectral beings of all kinds with our patented Augmented Reality glasses! Experience all the terror and thrills the afterlife has to offer, safely protected by our Recurrence Field technology! Visit Ghostland today - it's the hauntedest place on earth!________After a near-death experience caused by the park's star haunted attraction, Ben has come to Ghostland seeking to reconnect with his former best friend Lilian, whose post-traumatic stress won't let her live life to the fullest. She's come at the behest of her therapist, Dr. Allison Wexler, who tags along out of professional curiosity, eager to study the new tech's psychological effect on the user.But when a computer virus sets the ghosts free and the park goes into lockdown, the trio find themselves trapped in an endless nightmare.With time running short and the dead quickly outnumbering the living, the survivors must tap into their knowledge of horror and video games to escape... or become Ghostland's newest exhibits.Featuring an interactive "Know Your Ghosts" guide and much more, Ghostland is over 400 pages of thrills and terror!


A Peculiar Peril

A Peculiar Peril

PDF A Peculiar Peril Download

  • Author: Jeff VanderMeer
  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
  • ISBN: 0374308896
  • Category : Young Adult Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 304

A Peculiar Peril is a head-spinning epic about three friends on a quest to protect the world from a threat as unknowable as it is terrifying, from the Nebula Award–winning and New York Times bestselling author of Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer. Jonathan Lambshead stands to inherit his deceased grandfather’s overstuffed mansion—a veritable cabinet of curiosities—once he and two schoolmates catalog its contents. But the three soon discover that the house is filled with far more than just oddities: It holds clues linking to an alt-Earth called Aurora, where the notorious English occultist Aleister Crowley has stormed back to life on a magic-fueled rampage across a surreal, through-the-looking-glass version of Europe replete with talking animals (and vegetables). Swept into encounters with allies more unpredictable than enemies, Jonathan pieces together his destiny as a member of a secret society devoted to keeping our world separate from Aurora. But as the ground shifts and allegiances change with every step, he and his friends sink ever deeper into a deadly pursuit of the profound evil that is also chasing after them.


The Hollow Places

The Hollow Places

PDF The Hollow Places Download

  • Author: T. Kingfisher
  • Publisher: Simon and Schuster
  • ISBN: 1534451145
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 352

A young woman discovers a strange portal in her uncle’s house, leading to madness and terror in this gripping new novel from the author of the “innovative, unexpected, and absolutely chilling” (Mira Grant, Nebula Award–winning author) The Twisted Ones. Pray they are hungry. Kara finds the words in the mysterious bunker that she’s discovered behind a hole in the wall of her uncle’s house. Freshly divorced and living back at home, Kara now becomes obsessed with these cryptic words and starts exploring this peculiar area—only to discover that it holds portals to countless alternate realities. But these places are haunted by creatures that seem to hear thoughts…and the more one fears them, the stronger they become. With her distinctive “delightfully fresh and subversive” (SF Bluestocking) prose and the strange, sinister wonder found in Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth, The Hollow Places is another compelling and white-knuckled horror novel that you won’t be able to put down.


When We Entered That House

When We Entered That House

PDF When We Entered That House Download

  • Author: Claire L. Smith
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781737463337
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 116

Best friends Zoe and Elle share a secret. Every day after school, they sneak into the ominous woods surrounding their small town. The isolation of the remote wilderness shelters them from the chaos at home, but it also brings dangers of its own. Something wicked watches the girls from a rotting Victorian mansion. Zoe and Elle will soon discover the mansion's decaying walls hide centuries-old secrets and a family whose bloodline is stained with violence and insanity. In order to escape, the girls' friendship and inner strength will be tested. The house's clutches are strong, and both friends will be caught in a struggle they may not be able to win.


Why Horror Seduces

Why Horror Seduces

PDF Why Horror Seduces Download

  • Author: Mathias F. Clasen
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 019066651X
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 201

Why do humans feel the need to scream at horror films? In Why Horror Seduces, author Matthias Clasen looks to evolutionary social science to show how the horror genre is a product of human nature.


What the #@&% Is That?

What the #@&% Is That?

PDF What the #@&% Is That? Download

  • Author: John Joseph Adams
  • Publisher: Simon and Schuster
  • ISBN: 1481434934
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 368

"Fear of the unknown--it is the essence of the best horror stories, the need to know what monstrous vision you're beholding and the underlying terror that you just might find out. Now, twenty authors have gathered to ask--and maybe answer--a question worthy of almost any horror tale: "What the #@ & % is that?"Join these masters of suspense as they take you to where the shadows grow long, and that which lurks at the corner of your vision is all too real"--Amazon.com.


The Philosophy of Horror

The Philosophy of Horror

PDF The Philosophy of Horror Download

  • Author: Noel Carroll
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 113596503X
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 502

Noel Carroll, film scholar and philosopher, offers the first serious look at the aesthetics of horror. In this book he discusses the nature and narrative structures of the genre, dealing with horror as a "transmedia" phenomenon. A fan and serious student of the horror genre, Carroll brings to bear his comprehensive knowledge of obscure and forgotten works, as well as of the horror masterpieces. Working from a philosophical perspective, he tries to account for how people can find pleasure in having their wits scared out of them. What, after all, are those "paradoxes of the heart" that make us want to be horrified?


Hollywood 9/11

Hollywood 9/11

PDF Hollywood 9/11 Download

  • Author: Tom Pollard
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317258118
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 223

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the subsequent US-led invasions of Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003 profoundly affected all aspects of society, including cinema. Or did they? Even now, years after those horrific events, debate still rages over their impact on films. At the time many expected Hollywood to tamp down graphic movie violence, while others hoped that filmmakers would finally lay bare volatile socio-political issues fuelling terrorist attacks. In fact, what has emerged is a thicket of darkly pessimistic genres including thrillers, combat films, sci-fi, and horror that makes pre-9/11 films appear naive and optimistic. Hollywood 9/11 explores this transformation, critically examining everything from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to The Hurt Locker and placing the films in the context of both the socio-political scene and the history of cinema.


None of the Above

None of the Above

PDF None of the Above Download

  • Author: I. W. Gregorio
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • ISBN: 0062335332
  • Category : Young Adult Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 195

A groundbreaking story about a teenage girl who discovers she's intersex . . . and what happens when her secret is revealed to the entire school. Incredibly compelling and sensitively told, None of the Above is a thought-provoking novel that explores what it means to be a boy, a girl, or something in between. What if everything you knew about yourself changed in an instant? When Kristin Lattimer is voted homecoming queen, it seems like another piece of her ideal life has fallen into place. She's a champion hurdler with a full scholarship to college and she's madly in love with her boyfriend. In fact, she's decided that she's ready to take things to the next level with him. But Kristin's first time isn't the perfect moment she's planned—something is very wrong. A visit to the doctor reveals the truth: Kristin is intersex, which means that though she outwardly looks like a girl, she has male chromosomes, not to mention boy "parts." Dealing with her body is difficult enough, but when her diagnosis is leaked to the whole school, Kristin's entire identity is thrown into question. As her world unravels, can she come to terms with her new self?