Art Horror

Why would anyone want to watch horror movies? Why would Christians, in particular, bother with the genre? In Fear Not!, critic Josh Larsen makes the case that monster movies, creature features, slashers, and other fright films artfully reflect our deep worries in a way that resonates with the Christian experience. Combining critical observation and theological reflection, Larsen devotes each chapter to a different horror subgenre, connecting that subgenre to a commonly shared fear.

桜島、竜ヶ水、江ノ島弁天……、鹿児島各地に伝わる因縁! 西郷どんよ、死して星となったのか……?

【内容紹介】闇に漂う手はキリシタンの亡霊? 「福岡の怖い話」の著者、「九州」を語る!

Life is a nightmare for Miranda Murphy. Without knowing when or why, blood oozes from her palms - an anomaly that makes her feel like a freak. But her abnormality is now the least of her worries. She's just enrolled at "Suicide High." Three deaths in three months - one occurring just days before her arrival. When she bumps into a cute boy named Jake, things don't appear so glum. Especially since Jake's a psychic who can predict the immediate future. But his gift of sight can't prepare her for the horrors that await.

The first sign was the disgustingly mutilated carcass of a cow. The second, an old man torn to pieces. The third, the eerily beautiful blue fires that hovered over the small town… Stark white faces, diabolical eyes—raging within the unearthly flames—were turned toward the innocent town. And now it moved—toward the children walking home from school. Toward the young priest who wondered if this hideous power came from heaven…or from hell.

They called him Leonardo - a master skilled in the art of murder. One year ago, Cincinnati was his canvas. A scalpel was his tool. And women were his works-in-progress. FBI profiler Casey McKinley was one of them, a victim of Leonardo's twisted genius. She has the scars - and the nightmares - to prove it. For Casey, a new city means a life far from the one she left behind in Cincinnati. In San Francisco she finally feels safe. Until a series of eerily familiar slayings plunges her back into Leonardo's game.

From scream queens to femmes fatale, horror isn’t just for the boys. Gothic media moguls Meg Hafdahl and Kelly Florence, authors of The Science of Monsters, and cohosts of the Horror Rewind podcast called “the best horror film podcast out there” by Film Daddy, present a guide to the feminist horror movies, TV shows, and characters we all know and love. Through interviews, film analysis, and bone-chilling discoveries, The Science of Women in Horror uncovers the theories behind women’s most iconic roles of the genre.

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While on a singles tour of Europe, Seattle's own Pia Thomason is looking for a man and trying not to think about her 40th birthday. Too bad her choice of suitors is less than appealing. But when she meets two mysterious strangers in Iceland, Pia becomes immersed in an undead love affair.

This collection features reviews of the Hellraiser, Pulse, Feast, Leprechaun, and Boogeyman franchises as well as classic horror films like Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things, Keep My Grave Open, Beast of the Yellow Night, The Vampire's Night Orgy, and more.

In this book, horror-expert Mathias Clasen delves into the psychological science of horror cinema to bust some of the worst myths and correct the biggest misunderstandings surrounding the genre. In short and highly enjoyable chapters peppered with vivid anecdotes and examples, he addresses the nervous person's most pressing questions: What are the effects of horror films on our mental and physical health? Why do they often cause nightmares? Aren't horror movies immoral and a bad influence on children and adolescents?

Per molti è il più grande scrittore degli ultimi decenni. Per altri le sue storie horror sono robaccia. Una volta il diretto interessatosi è autodefinito ‘l’equivalente letterario di un Big Mac con le patatine’ per rivendicare il suo legame con la cultura popolare. Oggi, con più di settanta romanzi pubblicati, quattrocento milioni di copie vendute e una serie impressionante di adattamenti delle sue opere per il cinema e la TV, Stephen King è celebrato in tutto il mondo come il ‘Re del Brivido’.

Join your favourite Indie Horror authors for some tales about their adventures navigating the industry. The highs, the lows, and everything in between. Some of them give some tips and advice and others share their funny and embarrassing stories. This is not a "How To" book, but there are many great lessons inside if you are looking to write or boost where you are at the moment.

「舞台はとある学園、怪奇倶楽部。 数学教師・怪奇クラブ顧問(進藤秋人)と、古文教師(六郷綾香)。その他、個性豊かな学生のメンバーが、地元の怪談を取材し、「怪奇新聞」なるものを発行している。 第壱夜「マリコさん」から第六夜「祈り」までを完全収録 第壱夜「マリコさん」 怪奇倶楽部メンバーが見つけた「六夜怪談雑記」 その中の記述「“第壱の怪談。マリコ。人形。鏡の裏”」とはいったい何の意味なのか?第弐夜「約束」 「六夜怪談雑記を手がかりに、第二の怪談、放送室の幽霊について調査を開始した怪奇倶楽部であったが、突然の怪奇現象に、調査の中断を余儀なくされる……そして、やがてたどり着いた幼い少女の霊が口にする「約束」とは!!」 第参夜「積怨の炎」 アイドル、胡桃マミに憑依した謎の霊の出現に、パニックに陥る怪奇倶楽部部室。 “六夜怪談雑記”に封印されていた霊たちを解き放ったのは、他でもない怪奇倶楽部のメンバーだと告げられた一行が取るべき道ははたして……!?」 第四夜「軋む骨」 スピリチュアル・タレントの隼祥吾から、六夜怪談の封印を解いてしまったのは、他でもない怪奇倶楽部だと指摘され、ショックを受けたメンバーたち。学校にまつわる六つの怪談を掘り起こそうとしたことで、眠っていた怨霊たちが目覚めたとでも、言うのだろうか…?だとしたら、これから起こることとは一体……」 ...

Something has awakened in the Badlands. Undying hunger and hatred for Man seethe in the darkness. While below the brooding pinnacles, the first talking Western is being filmed. The fledging director, John Ford, has inherited a troubled production and fights his own insecurity over filming his first movie with sound. Harry Carey, the star, and his wife worry about Ford's hostility to his former best friend.

Set between Moscow, Russia and St Andrews, Scotland, it tackles the metaphysics of golf, the mindset of the classic Russian novels and the power of art and music to rewrite reality, as Aneliya comes into contact with an angelic presence named Xstabeth who simultaneously fulfils and disappears both her father and her lover. Written in a tender, mythical key, it is a love letter to the books of Chandler, Nabokov and Dostoevsky and also a musical text, with chord progressions appearing at key points in the action, so that the audiobook may be sung, played or otherwise accompanied.

It's the end of the 19th century. San Francisco's cobblestone streets are haunted, but Chinatown has an unlikely protector in a young Daoist priestess named Li-lin. Using only her martial arts training, spiritual magic, a sword made from peachwood, and the walking, talking spirit of a human eye, Li-lin stands alone to defend her immigrant community from supernatural threats. But when the body of a young girl is brought to the deadhouse Li-lin oversees for a local group of gangsters, she faces her most bewildering - and potentially dangerous - assignment yet.

Death deals no mercy to one man who rises in a SoHo alleyway to find his lover dead and his own body ghastly transformed. Straining to overcome his murderous instincts through Zen meditation and blood deprivation, he is reclaimed by The Ministry, an underground society waging war against the undead. Time and time again his will to resist is tested by the killers who demand his allegiance and the Zen masters who will burn him down at his first missed step. He strives to walk a tightrope between the living and the dead...to master himself, his hunger, and the way of the wooden stake.

Film historian David Thomson, leads us into this very delicate subject. While unpacking classics such as Seven, Strangers on a Train, The Conformist, The Godfather, and The Shining, he offers a disconcerting sense of how the form of movies makes us accomplices in this sinister narrative process. Murder and the Movies admits us into what Thomson calls "a warped triangle": the creator working out a compelling death; the killer doing his and her best; and the entranced spectator trying to cling to life and a proper sense of decency.