Free Download Michael J. Burke St. Joseph's University, "The Ethics of Horror: Spectral Alterity in Twenty-First-Century Horror Film "
English | ISBN: 1666910848 | 2024 | 258 pages | EPUB, PDF | 612 KB + 2 MB
The Ethics of Horror: Spectral Alterity in Twenty-First Century Horror Film examines the theme of spectral haunting in contemporary American horror cinema through the lens of ethical responsibility. Arguing that moral obligation can manifest as terror to the complacent self, the text extracts this dimension of ethics in twenty-first century horror films. Drawing on the ethical theories of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, which posit the asymmetrical obligation of the self to the other, Michael Burke highlights how recent horror films portray spectral antagonists as ethical others that hound protagonists and summon them to an accountability that they can neither evade nor ever completely fulfill. Burke observes the resulting destabilization of notions of ethical responsibility and justice in a variety of contemporary horror subgenres, including technohorror, haunted house and zombie films.

Free Download I Talked with a Zombie: Interviews With 23 Veterans of Horror and Sci-Fi Films and Television by Tom Weaver
English | 2008 | ISBN: 0786441186 | 360 Pages | PDF | 10.3 MB
"I talked with a zombie"-it DOES seem like an odd thing to say! But for over 25 years, Tom Weaver has been chatting up zombies and many other vintage movie monsters, along with the screenwriters, producers, directors and actors responsible for bringing them to life.

Free Download Gnocchi Horror Show Cookbook: 50 blockbuster movie-inspired recipes by Lachlan Hayman
English | April 11, 2023 | ISBN: 191298363X | 144 pages | MOBI | 36 Mb
Lights, Korma, Action! Get stuck into these 50 movie-inspired recipes that are worthy of an Oscar.

Free Download Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodríguez, "Baroque Aesthetics in Contemporary American Horror"
English | ISBN: 3030882500 | 2021 | 187 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book traces a trend that has emerged in recent years within the modern panorama of American horror film and television, the concurrent―and often overwhelming―use of multiple stock characters, themes and tropes taken from classics of the genre. American Horror Story, Insidious and The Conjuring are examples of a filmic tendency to address a series of topics and themes so vast that at first glance each taken separately would seem to suffice for individual films or shows. This book explores this trend in its visible connections with American Horror, but also with cultural and artistic movements from outside the US, namely Baroque art and architecture, Asian Horror, and European Horror. It analyzes how these hybrid products are constructed and discusses the socio-political issues that they raise. The repeated and excessive barrage of images, tropes and scenarios from distinct subgenres of iconic horror films come together to make up an aesthetic that is referred to in this book as

Free Download Wheeler Winston Dixon, "A History of Horror, 2nd Edition"
English | ISBN: 197883358X | 2023 | 298 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Ever since horror leapt from popular fiction to the silver screen in the late 1890s, viewers have experienced fear and pleasure in exquisite combination. Wheeler Winston Dixon's fully revised and updated A History of Horror is still the only book to offer a comprehensive survey of this ever-popular film genre.

Alphabet Soup Horror Stories for the Tormented Soul by Grant Butler by Tobias Wade | 7.44 MB
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Title: Alphabet Soup for the Tormented Soul
Author: Tobias Wade
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Free Download Charity Vogel, "The Angola Horror: The 1867 Train Wreck That Shocked the Nation and Transformed American Railroads"
English | ISBN: 0801449081 | 2013 | 312 pages | PDF | 11 MB
On December 18, 1867, the Buffalo and Erie Railroad's eastbound New York Express derailed as it approached the high truss bridge over Big Sister Creek, just east of the small settlement of Angola, New York, on the shores of Lake Erie. The last two cars of the express train were pitched completely off the tracks and plummeted into the creek bed below. When they struck bottom, one of the wrecked cars was immediately engulfed in flames as the heating stoves in the coach spilled out coals and ignited its wooden timbers. The other car was badly smashed. About fifty people died at the bottom of the gorge or shortly thereafter, and dozens more were injured. Rescuers from the small rural community responded with haste, but there was almost nothing they could do but listen to the cries of the dying―and carry away the dead and injured thrown clear of the fiery wreck. The next day and in the weeks that followed, newspapers across the country carried news of the "Angola Horror," one of the deadliest railway accidents to that point in U.S. history.

Free Download Re-Imagining the Victim in Post-1970s Horror Media (Horror and Gothic Media Cultures) edited by Madelon Hoedt, Marko Lukic
English | January 9, 2024 | ISBN: 9463729968 | True PDF | 256 pages | 2.2 MB
Despite its necessary centrality within the genre, the concept of the victim has not received much direct attention within the field of horror studies. Arguably, their presence is so ubiquitous as to become invisible―the threat of horror implies the need for a victim, whose function never alters, often becoming a blank slate for audiences to project their desires and fears onto.

The Complete Cosmic Horror Trilogy by J Thorn | 880.71 KB
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Title: The Complete Cosmic Horror Trilogy
Author: J. Thorn
Year: 2024

Free Download Cristina Massaccesi, "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (Devils Advocates)"
English | 2016 | pages: 120 | ISBN: 0993238459 | EPUB | 2,1 mb
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, directed by German director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau in 1922, is not only regarded as one of the most intriguing and disquieting films to have been produced during the years of Weimar cinema but is also a key step in establishing the vampire as a cinematic figure and in shaping its connection with our subconscious fears and desires. In her analysis of this hugely influential film, Cristina Massaccesi unravels the never-ending fascination exercised by the film over generations of viewers and filmmakers whilst at the same time providing the reader with a clear guide about the film's contexts, cinematography, and possible interpretations, covering the political and social context of the Weimar Republic and its film industry, the German Expressionist movement, the film's production, reception and difficult initial release. The book also includes the results of a lengthy interview between the author and E. Elias Merhige, director of the Nosferatu homage, Shadow of the Vampire (2000).