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      • Trusted Partner
        The Arts
        October 2023

        Folk horror on film

        Return of the British repressed

        by Kevin J. Donnelly, Louis Bayman

        What is folk horror and how culturally significant is it? This collection is the first study to address these questions while considering the special importance of British cinema to the genre's development. The book presents political and aesthetic analyses of folk horror's uncanny landscapes and frightful folk. It places canonical films like Witchfinder General (1968), The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971) and The Wicker Man (1973) in a new light and expands the canon to include films like the sci-fi horror Doomwatch (1970-72) and the horror documentary Requiem for a Village (1975) alongside filmmakers Ken Russell and Ben Wheatley. A series of engrossing chapters by established scholars and new writers argue for the uniqueness of folk horror from perspectives that include the fragmented national history of pagan heresies and Celtic cultures, of peasant lifestyles, folkloric rediscoveries and postcolonial decline.

      • Trusted Partner
        The Arts
        October 2023

        Folk horror on film

        Return of the British repressed

        by Kevin J. Donnelly, Louis Bayman

        What is folk horror and how culturally significant is it? This collection is the first study to address these questions while considering the special importance of British cinema to the genre's development. The book presents political and aesthetic analyses of folk horror's uncanny landscapes and frightful folk. It places canonical films like Witchfinder General (1968), The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971) and The Wicker Man (1973) in a new light and expands the canon to include films like the sci-fi horror Doomwatch (1970-72) and the horror documentary Requiem for a Village (1975) alongside filmmakers Ken Russell and Ben Wheatley. A series of engrossing chapters by established scholars and new writers argue for the uniqueness of folk horror from perspectives that include the fragmented national history of pagan heresies and Celtic cultures, of peasant lifestyles, folkloric rediscoveries and postcolonial decline.

      • Trusted Partner
        Literature & Literary Studies
        March 2023

        Transplantation Gothic

        Tissue transfer in literature, film, and medicine

        by Sara Wasson

        Winner of the International Gothic Association's Allan Lloyd Smith Prize 2022. Shortlisted for the British Society of Literature and Science Book Prize 2020. Transplantation Gothic is a shadow cultural history of transplantation, as mediated through medical writing, science fiction, life writing and visual arts in a Gothic mode, from the nineteenth-century to the present. The works explore the experience of donor/suppliers, recipients and practitioners, and simultaneously express transfer-related suffering and are complicit in its erasure. Examining texts from Europe, North America and India, the book resists exoticising predatorial tissue economies and considers fantasies of harvest as both product and symbol of structural ruination under neoliberal capitalism. In their efforts to articulate bioengineered hybridity, these works are not only anxious but speculative. The book will be of interest to academics and students researching Gothic studies, science fiction, critical medical humanities and cultural studies of transplantation.

      • Trusted Partner
        Fiction
        October 2016

        Gothic kinship

        by Agnes Andeweg, Sue Zlosnik

        Although the preoccupation of Gothic storytelling with the family has often been observed, it invites a more systematic exploration. Gothic kinship brings together case studies of Gothic kinship ties in film and literature and offers a synthesis and theorisation of the different appearances of the Gothic family. Writers discussed include early British Gothic writers such as Eleanor Sleath and Louisa Sidney Stanhope as well as a range of later authors writing in English, including Elizabeth Gaskell, William March, Stephen King, Poppy Z. Brite, Patricia Duncker, J. K. Rowling and Audrey Niffenegger. There are also essays on Dutch authors (Louis Couperus and Renate Dorrestein) and on the film directors Wes Craven and Steven Sheil. Arranged chronologically, the various contributions show that both early and contemporary Gothic display very diverse kinship ties, ranging from metaphorical to triangular, from queer to nuclear-patriarchal. Gothic proves to be a rich source of expressing both subversive and conservative notions of the family. Gothic kinship will be of interest to academics and students of European and American Gothic in literature and film, gender studies and cultural studies.

      • Trusted Partner
        Literature & Literary Studies
        October 2020

        Transplantation Gothic

        Tissue transfer in literature, film and medicine

        by Sara Wasson

        Transplantation Gothic is a shadow cultural history of transplantation, as mediated through medical writing, science fiction, life writing and visual arts in a Gothic mode, from the nineteenth-century to the present. The works explore the experience of donor/suppliers, recipients and practitioners, and simultaneously express transfer-related suffering and are complicit in its erasure. Examining texts from Europe, North America and India, the book resists exoticising predatorial tissue economies and considers fantasies of harvest as both product and symbol of structural ruination under neoliberal capitalism. In their efforts to articulate bioengineered hybridity, these works are not only anxious but speculative. The book will be of interest to academics and students researching Gothic studies, science fiction, critical medical humanities and cultural studies of transplantation.

      • Trusted Partner
        Literature & Literary Studies
        October 2020

        Transplantation Gothic

        Tissue transfer in literature, film and medicine

        by Sara Wasson

        Transplantation Gothic is a shadow cultural history of transplantation, as mediated through medical writing, science fiction, life writing and visual arts in a Gothic mode, from the nineteenth-century to the present. The works explore the experience of donor/suppliers, recipients and practitioners, and simultaneously express transfer-related suffering and are complicit in its erasure. Examining texts from Europe, North America and India, the book resists exoticising predatorial tissue economies and considers fantasies of harvest as both product and symbol of structural ruination under neoliberal capitalism. In their efforts to articulate bioengineered hybridity, these works are not only anxious but speculative. The book will be of interest to academics and students researching Gothic studies, science fiction, critical medical humanities and cultural studies of transplantation.

      • Trusted Partner
        Literature & Literary Studies
        October 2020

        Transplantation Gothic

        Tissue transfer in literature, film and medicine

        by Sara Wasson

        Transplantation Gothic is a shadow cultural history of transplantation, as mediated through medical writing, science fiction, life writing and visual arts in a Gothic mode, from the nineteenth-century to the present. The works explore the experience of donor/suppliers, recipients and practitioners, and simultaneously express transfer-related suffering and are complicit in its erasure. Examining texts from Europe, North America and India, the book resists exoticising predatorial tissue economies and considers fantasies of harvest as both product and symbol of structural ruination under neoliberal capitalism. In their efforts to articulate bioengineered hybridity, these works are not only anxious but speculative. The book will be of interest to academics and students researching Gothic studies, science fiction, critical medical humanities and cultural studies of transplantation.

      • Trusted Partner
        The Arts
        October 2023

        Folk horror on film

        Return of the British repressed

        by Kevin J. Donnelly, Louis Bayman

        What is folk horror and how culturally significant is it? This collection is the first study to address these questions while considering the special importance of British cinema to the genre's development. The book presents political and aesthetic analyses of folk horror's uncanny landscapes and frightful folk. It places canonical films like Witchfinder General (1968), The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971) and The Wicker Man (1973) in a new light and expands the canon to include films like the sci-fi horror Doomwatch (1970-72) and the horror documentary Requiem for a Village (1975) alongside filmmakers Ken Russell and Ben Wheatley. A series of engrossing chapters by established scholars and new writers argue for the uniqueness of folk horror from perspectives that include the fragmented national history of pagan heresies and Celtic cultures, of peasant lifestyles, folkloric rediscoveries and postcolonial decline.

      • Trusted Partner
        Literature & Literary Studies
        October 2024

        The Legacy of John Polidori

        The Romantic Vampire and its Progeny

        by Sam George, Bill Hughes

        John Polidori's novella The Vampyre (1819) is perhaps 'the most influential horror story of all time' (Frayling). Polidori's story transformed the shambling, mindless monster of folklore into a sophisticated, seductive aristocrat that stalked London society rather than being confined to the hinterlands of Eastern Europe. Polidori's Lord Ruthven was thus the ancestor of the vampire as we know it. This collection explores the genesis of Polidori's vampire. It then tracks his bloodsucking progeny across the centuries and maps his disquieting legacy. Texts discussed range from the Romantic period, including the fascinating and little-known The Black Vampyre (1819), through the melodramatic vampire theatricals in the 1820s, to contemporary vampire film, paranormal romance, and science fiction. They emphasise the background of colonial revolution and racial oppression in the early nineteenth century and the cultural shifts of postmodernity.

      • Science fiction
        May 2011

        The Dying of the Light: End

        by Jason Kristopher (author)

        The zombie apocalypse isn't coming,it's already here. “I didn't see Rebecca die the second time.” The United States military hides a secret: the completely real existence of one-bite-and-you're-dead zombies. An elite Special Forces unit has known they exist for over a hundred years, and has been quietly and expertly keeping the monsters at bay… until now. The sole survivor of the massacre at Fall Creek joins this elite unit to combat the single greatest threat our world has ever known. Even as victories over the walkers mount, true evil still lurks in the hearts of men, and at the last, only a brave few may survive.

      • Science fiction
        January 2013

        The Dying of the Light: Interval

        by Jason Kristopher (author)

        Becoming a zombie was much more painful than he had expected. The world has ended, and the few who are left struggle to survive. They had hoped that the worst thing they would have to deal with in this new world would be the walkers, come to rip and devour. They were wrong. There are worse things than zombies. Those once thought safely sheltered in massive bunkers are under ceaseless attack, have gone dark—or worse. Meanwhile, thousands of miles away, marooned on the desert ice of Antarctica, a dwindling group of scientists fend off starvation. David Blake and the remnants of the US military launch a desperate rescue mission to bring them back; among them, the one scientist who has the knowledge that could save the human race.

      • Science fiction
        August 2013

        Fallen Is Babylon

        by Michael Wentela (author)

        Vann Arnett may be the last man to survive the end of civilization, unchanged by the plague that brought about The Collapse. For him, life is a daily battle not only to stay alive, but also to keep from going crazy. So when his carefully structured world is turned upside down by a force of outsiders beyond his control, his fight for sanity takes a backseat to that of survival. In a world populated by the dead, the crazy, and the murderous, what can one sane man do?

      • Fiction

        Virus

        by Alvaro Vanegas

        Ivan, a banker and frustrated musician, suddenly finds himself in the middle of a horde of angry zombies. Now his only goal is to meet his wife, but communicating with her is impossible and getting where she is is very difficult when thousands of people want to kill him and turn him into their breakfast. Virus is an urban history that deals bluntly with human nature and whose vertiginous rhythm doesn't allow the reader to take their eyes off its pages.

      • Fiction
        July 2019

        From the Outside

        by Clare Johnston

        When internet millionaire and philanthropist Harry Melville dies in a car crash at the age of forty four, the lives of his wife, Sarah, and twin brother, Ben, are thrown into turmoil.   Harry seemed to have it all; a close-knit family and a happy marriage - along with all the trappings of wealth. Yet as he recalls his past from the afterlife, a story emerges of the unspoken and bitter jealousies between brothers and of an unhappy wife burdened by loneliness and guilt. When Ben takes over the running of Harry's charity foundation he begins to find purpose for the first time in years. But the arrival of a talented young artist brings a series of revelations that expose Harry's complex and dual personality in full. As he learns his part in the suffering of those he left behind, is it too late for Harry to make amends? A tale of regret and redemption in this world and the next. From the Outside looks at the futile rivalries that can destroy sibling relationships and the lost opportunity for happiness when ego is allowed to reign over emotion.

      • Fiction

        Nel corridoio della notte

        by Salvatore Napoli

        Ancestral fears belong to the essence of mankind. Never as in these five horror stories, the human soul is helplessly subjected to that touch of evil that lives in every person. Five stories, some as short as they are instantaneous in reaching the reader's emotions, others more structured and articulated, able to keep the reader’s pathos and pressure always high. Salvatore Napoli’s second book marks the pace of everyday life, the ordinary one, enriching it with the unknown “around the corner”, which can transform a person's life into a fatal destiny. Preface by horror movies director Ivan Zuccon. ---  Le paure ancestrali appartengono all'essenza dell'individuo.Mai come in questi cinque racconti horror, l'animo umano subisce inerme quel tocco del malvagio insito in ogni persona.Ma la via della redenzione è sempre dietro l'angolo, così come quella della dannazione eterna.Cinque racconti, alcuni brevissimi quanto istantanei nel raggiungere l'emotività del lettore, altri più strutturati e articolati, in grado di mantenere il pathos e l'attenzione sempre vigili.Salvatore Napoli, alla sua seconda pubblicazione, scandisce i tempi della quotidianità, quella ordinaria, arricchendola con l'incognita dietro l'angolo, che può trasformare la vita di una persona in modo “fatale".Ma al contempo, sa indirizzare le sue storie nella direzione del cyber horror, accarezzando la psiche con gli artigli dell'ignoto, come note letali suonate magistralmente sulla tastiera di un pianoforte, ultimo atto delconcerto più bello, prima di sferrare il colpo di grazia.Echi dal passato rimbombano Nel corridoio della notte, dove tutto può succedere, e l'Autore lo fa “con la medesima crudezza, e con l’ambizione di evocare la poesia della morte" (cit. Ivan Zuccon).Edito Horti di Giano (giugno 2019).Prefazione del regista horror Ivan ZucconIllustrazioni ArsFIGULINA di Chiara ColaiacomoContiene i racconti:- Di sopra non abita nessuno- Marcellone- Pianobar-bot- Braccata- Regionale 9053

      • Graphic novels

        Death Row

        by Marc Sans, Oscar Perales

        A viral outbreak leaves the Wolverstone Penitentiary incommunicado. The prison's security force manages to take control of the building, which is stalked by hundreds of victims turned into living corpses. They soon discover that they cannot survive on their own. To stay alive, they must forge alliances with the inmates, join forces, and together avoid the threat from the outside. Death row is conceived as a unique and self-contained work divided into 14 chapters.

      • Fiction
        May 2016

        Shivers

        Comics Anthology

        by Andik Prayogo, Yudhanegara Nyoman, Nan-Nan

        Shivers is a comics anthology created by a number of talented Indonesia comics artists. It contains 6 thrillers and horror/mistery comics with superb artworks. 1. Reunion-Revival-Requiem, created by Andik Prayogo and Felix Setiawan, is a mistery comic trilogy about a young boy who experienced a series of unfortunate events, caused by misterious beings. 2. Kris, created by Yudhanegara Nyoman and Aloysius Alfa, tells the adventure of two young ghosthunters, 3. Midnight Visitor, created by Nan-Nan, is a horror comic which tells about the misterious visitor who often comes to new-moms. 4. Freudian, by Yudhanegara Nyoman and Bening Andyani, tells a story about the journey of young college students that ended tragically, caused by winning a bottle cap lottery.

      • Fiction
        2019

        Isaac D

        by Leandro Pileggi, Levi Tonin

        What if you woke up and were someone else? What if unnamable creatures showed up everywhere? What if only you noticed they were there? What if they came after you? Would you run? Would you hide? Or would you fight… Isaac D is a Light novel full of action and good humor, spiced by many Lovecraft and pop culture references. A fantasy built on humanity’s largest mysteries that brings together modern myths and pulp story classics.

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