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Cat's Eye

Cat's Eye

Margaret Atwood

Fangs for the Memories

Fangs for the Memories

Half-Moon Hollow (4.50)

Queen of Air and Darkness

Queen of Air and Darkness

Cassandra Clare

The Dark Artifices (3)

The Sinner

The Sinner

Graveyard Queen (5)

Resurrection

Resurrection

The Frontiers Saga: Part 2: Rogue Castes (3)

Self-Portrait

Self-Portrait

Gene Tierney & Mickey Herskowitz

The Lost

The Lost

Michael John Grist

Last Mayor / Zombie Ocean (2)

Mercy Blade

Mercy Blade

Jane Yellowrock (3)

Summer's Road

Summer's Road

Seasmoke Friends (1)

Reave the Just and Other Tales

Reave the Just and Other Tales

Stephen R. Donaldson

Little Failure: A Memoir

Little Failure: A Memoir

Gary Shteyngart

Rage

Rage

The Annotated Northanger Abbey

The Annotated Northanger Abbey

The Works of Jane Austen presented by Kobo Editions (1)

Lucy by the Sea

Lucy by the Sea

Elizabeth Strout

Breakout

Breakout

Dred Chronicles (3)

Switch Bitch

Switch Bitch

Frankenstein Unbound

Frankenstein Unbound

Brian W. Aldiss

Joe Bodenland (1)

Mountain Laurel

Mountain Laurel

Montgomery/Taggert (Publication order) (15)

Republic Horrors: The Serial Studio's Chillers

Republic Horrors: The Serial Studio's Chillers

Surviving the End

Surviving the End

The First Men in the Moon

The First Men in the Moon

Oxford World's Classics Series (1)

Infinite Mayhem

Infinite Mayhem

Roak: Galactic Bounty Hunter (5)

Memento Mori

Memento Mori

Jennifer Brozek & Kenneth C. Goldman & Bruce Lockhart & William Holden & Vincent L. Scarsella & Tracie McBride & T. Fox Dunham & Steve Billings & Sarah Hans & Martin Rose & Lydia Peever & Kenneth W. Cain & John M. McIlveen & Jean Graham & Jonathan Shipley & Cathy Moeschet & Elaine Cunningham & Gregory L. Norris & Adrian Ludens & Gary Power & Jay Wilburn & Essel Pratt & G. Lloyd Helm & Carly Holmes & Elsa M. Carruthers & Daniel Soule & Annie Neugebauer & Dusty Wallace & J. C. Hemphill

Mrs Bradshaw's Handbook

Mrs Bradshaw's Handbook

Terry Pratchett

The Harp of the Grey Rose

The Harp of the Grey Rose

Charles de Lint

Skydark Spawn

Skydark Spawn

Deathlands (61)

Extras

Extras

Scott Westerfeld

The Chosen Sin

The Chosen Sin

Mystery Man

Mystery Man

Fire and Blood: 300 Years Before a Game of Thrones

Fire and Blood: 300 Years Before a Game of Thrones

George R. R. Martin

A Targaryen History (1)

Category: History & Criticism

Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror

Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, ...

Letterman: The Last Giant of Late Night

Letterman: The Last Giant of Late Night

Sleaze Creatures: An Illustrated Guide to Obscure Hollywood Horror Movies -

Sleaze Creatures: An Illustrated Guide to Obscure Hollywood ...

Horror: A Connoisseur's Guide to Literature and Film

Horror: A Connoisseur's Guide to Literature and Film

They Live

They Live

D. Harlan Wilson

Cultographies (1)

Screening Sex

Screening Sex

a John Hope Franklin Center Book (1)

H.G. Wells, Modernity and the Movies

H.G. Wells, Modernity and the Movies

Liverpool University Press - Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies Series (35)

Fighting Without Fighting: Kung Fu Cinema’s Journey to the West

Fighting Without Fighting: Kung Fu Cinema’s Journey to the West

Reflections on Blaxploitation: Actors and Directors Speak

Reflections on Blaxploitation: Actors and Directors Speak

David Walker & Andrew J. Rausch & Chris Watson

The Style of Sleaze: The American Exploitation Film, 1959-1977

The Style of Sleaze: The American Exploitation Film, 1959-1977

Traditions in American Cinema (1)

You Don't Know Me, but You Love Me: The Lives of Dick Miller

You Don't Know Me, but You Love Me: The Lives of Dick Miller

Caelum Vatnsdal

Film History: An Introduction

Film History: An Introduction

Kristin Thompson & David Bordwell

Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema

Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema

The B List: The National Society of Film Critics on the Low-Budget Beauties, Genre-Bending Mavericks, and Cult Classics We Love

The B List: The National Society of Film Critics on the Low-Budget ...

David Sterritt & John C. Anderson

The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror

The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror

Early Modern Tragedy and the Cinema of Violence

Early Modern Tragedy and the Cinema of Violence

Cyborg Cinema and Contemporary Subjectivity

Cyborg Cinema and Contemporary Subjectivity

Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema

Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema

Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts (1)

The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside the Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made

The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside the Room, the Greatest Bad ...

Greg Sestero & Tom Bissell

Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Burton, Harris, O'Toole and Reed

Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Burton, Harris, ...

Hollywood Hellraisers: The Wild Lives and Fast Times of Marlon Brando, Dennis Hopper, Warren Beatty, and Jack Nicholson

Hollywood Hellraisers: The Wild Lives and Fast Times of Marlon ...

Sleaze Artists: Cinema at the Margins of Taste, Style, and Politics

Sleaze Artists: Cinema at the Margins of Taste, Style, and Politics

Brutal Vision: The Neorealist Body in Postwar Italian Cinema

Brutal Vision: The Neorealist Body in Postwar Italian Cinema

Karl Schoonover

Bold! Daring! Shocking! True: A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959

Bold! Daring! Shocking! True: A History of Exploitation Films, ...

Naked Lens: Beat Cinema

Naked Lens: Beat Cinema

Aliens R Us: The Other in Science Fiction Cinema

Aliens R Us: The Other in Science Fiction Cinema

Ziauddin Sardar & Sean Cubitt

The Naked Truth: Why Hollywood Doesn't Make X-Rated Movies

The Naked Truth: Why Hollywood Doesn't Make X-Rated Movies

Kevin S. Sandler

Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics: Hollywood's Best Mistakes, Goofs and Flat-Out Destructions of the Basic Laws of the Universe

Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics: Hollywood's Best Mistakes, ...

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of American Horror Film Shorts: 1915-1976

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of American Horror Film Shorts: 1915-1976

Gary D. Rhodes & David J. Hogan

Digital Horror: Haunted Technologies, Network Panic and the Found Footage Phenomenon

Digital Horror: Haunted Technologies, Network Panic and the ...

Xavier Aldana Reyes & Linnie Blake

International Library of the Moving Image (1)

Spanish Gothic: National Identity, Collaboration and Cultural Adaptation

Spanish Gothic: National Identity, Collaboration and Cultural ...

Xavier Aldana Reyes

Palgrave Gothic (1)

Dolls! Dolls! Dolls!: Deep Inside Valley of the Dolls, the Most Beloved Bad Book and Movie of All Time

Dolls! Dolls! Dolls!: Deep Inside Valley of the Dolls, the Most ...

Stephen Rebello

The Warrior's Camera

The Warrior's Camera

Forgotten Horrors Vol. 3: Dr. Turner's House of Horrors

Forgotten Horrors Vol. 3: Dr. Turner's House of Horrors

Michael H. Price & George E. Turner & Terry Pace & John Wooley & Stephen R. Bissette

Forgotten Horrors Vol. 7: Famished Monsters of Filmland

Forgotten Horrors Vol. 7: Famished Monsters of Filmland

Michael Price & John Wooley

Cinema Sex Sirens

Cinema Sex Sirens

Lee Pfeiffer & Dave Worrall

Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture

Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary ...

New Directions in National Cinemas (1)

The Mammoth Book of Slasher Movies

The Mammoth Book of Slasher Movies

Peter Normanton

Mammoth Books (409)

Horror Films of the 1970s

Horror Films of the 1970s

John Kenneth Muir

The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi

The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi

John Kenneth Muir

The Biology of Horror: Gothic Literature and Film

The Biology of Horror: Gothic Literature and Film

Aesthetics of Shadow

Aesthetics of Shadow

He Was Some Kind of a Man: Masculinities in the B Western

He Was Some Kind of a Man: Masculinities in the B Western

Roderick McGillis

Film and Media Studies (1)

Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: The Biography of Russ Meyer, King of the Sex Film

Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: The Biography of Russ Meyer, King ...

Jimmy McDonough

Extreme Asia: The Rise of Cult Cinema From the Far East

Extreme Asia: The Rise of Cult Cinema From the Far East

Hong Kong Film, Hollywood and New Global Cinema: No Film Is an Island

Hong Kong Film, Hollywood and New Global Cinema: No Film Is ...

Gina Marchetti & Tan See Kam

Long Live the New Flesh: David Cronenberg's Somatic Dialectic From Shivers to eXistenZ

Long Live the New Flesh: David Cronenberg's Somatic Dialectic ...

Bride of Frankenstein

Bride of Frankenstein

Alberto Manguel

BFI Film Classics (1)

I Spit on Your Grave

I Spit on Your Grave

Cultographies (1)

Nazisploitation!: The Nazi Image in Low-Brow Cinema and Culture

Nazisploitation!: The Nazi Image in Low-Brow Cinema and Culture

Daniel H. Magilow & Elizabeth Bridges & Kristin T. Vander Lugt

Chainsaws, Slackers, and Spy Kids: Thirty Years of Filmmaking in Austin, Texas

Chainsaws, Slackers, and Spy Kids: Thirty Years of Filmmaking ...

The Films of Jess Franco

The Films of Jess Franco

Antonio Lázaro-Reboll & Ian Olney

Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series (1)

Star Wars the New Jedi Order #4: Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial

Star Wars the New Jedi Order #4: Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial

Star Wars: The New Jedi Order Series (4)

Shocking Representation: Historical Trauma, National Cinema, and the Modern Horror Film

Shocking Representation: Historical Trauma, National Cinema, ...

Adam Lowenstein

Film and Culture Series (1)

Action Speaks Louder: Violence, Spectacle, and the American Action Movie

Action Speaks Louder: Violence, Spectacle, and the American ...

Eric Lichtenfeld

Music in the Horror Film: Listening to Fear

Music in the Horror Film: Listening to Fear

Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors: The Child Villains of Horror Film

Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors: The Child Villains of Horror Film

Dominic Lennard

SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema (1)

Spanish Horror Film

Spanish Horror Film

Antonio Lazaro-Reboll

Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood

Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood

Magnolia

Magnolia

Wiley-Blackwell Series in Film and Television (8)

Monsters in the Movies: 100 Years of Cinematic Nightmares

Monsters in the Movies: 100 Years of Cinematic Nightmares

The Cinema of Discomfort: Disquieting, Awkward and Uncomfortable Experiences in Contemporary Art and Indie Film

The Cinema of Discomfort: Disquieting, Awkward and Uncomfortable ...

It Came From the 1950s!: Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties

It Came From the 1950s!: Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties

Darryl Jones & Elizabeth McCarthy & Bernice M. Murphy

Film Sequels: Theory and Practice From Hollywood to Bollywood

Film Sequels: Theory and Practice From Hollywood to Bollywood

Carolyn Jess-Cooke

The a to Z of Horror Cinema

The a to Z of Horror Cinema

Peter Hutchings

The A to Z Guide Series (100)

Cult Film as a Guide to Life: Fandom, Adaptation, and Identity

Cult Film as a Guide to Life: Fandom, Adaptation, and Identity

Screening the Undead: Vampires and Zombies in Film and Television

Screening the Undead: Vampires and Zombies in Film and Television

Leon Hunt & Sharon Lockyer & Milly Williamson

Ms. 45

Ms. 45

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Cultographies (1)

Suspiria

Suspiria

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Devils Advocates (10)

Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold: Horror Films and the American Movie Business, 1953-1968

Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold: Horror Films and the American Movie ...

Kevin Heffernan

British Film Culture in the 1970s: The Boundaries of Pleasure

British Film Culture in the 1970s: The Boundaries of Pleasure

Sue Harper & Justin T. Smith & Dave Allen

Popular Cinema of the Third Reich

Popular Cinema of the Third Reich

Death in Classical Hollywood Cinema

Death in Classical Hollywood Cinema

Transfigurations: Violence, Death and Masculinity in American Cinema

Transfigurations: Violence, Death and Masculinity in American ...

Asbjørn Grønstad

Psycho-Sexual: Male Desire in Hitchcock, De Palma, Scorsese, and Friedkin

Psycho-Sexual: Male Desire in Hitchcock, De Palma, Scorsese, ...

Manhood in Hollywood From Bush to Bush

Manhood in Hollywood From Bush to Bush

Representations of Femininity in American Genre Cinema: The Woman's Film, Film Noir, and Modern Horror

Representations of Femininity in American Genre Cinema: The ...

Quentin Tarantino and Philosophy

Quentin Tarantino and Philosophy

Richard Greene & Silem Mohammad

Popular Culture and Philosophy (29)

American Science Fiction Film and Television

American Science Fiction Film and Television

Lincoln Geraghty

For His Eyes Only: The Women of James Bond

For His Eyes Only: The Women of James Bond

Speaking Silently

Speaking Silently

Mysterious Skin: Male Bodies in Contemporary Cinema

Mysterious Skin: Male Bodies in Contemporary Cinema

Santiago Fouz-Hernandez

Italian Cinema: Arthouse to Exploitation

Italian Cinema: Arthouse to Exploitation

Pocket Essential Series (1)

British Gothic Cinema

British Gothic Cinema

Palgrave Gothic (1)

Electri_City: The Düsseldorf School of Electronic Music

Electri_City: The Düsseldorf School of Electronic Music

Let's Go Stag!: A History of Pornographic Film From the Invention of Cinema to 1970

Let's Go Stag!: A History of Pornographic Film From the Invention ...

Global Exploitation Cinemas (1)

Hollywood Monster: A Walk Down Elm Street With the Man of Your Dreams

Hollywood Monster: A Walk Down Elm Street With the Man of Your ...

Robert Englund & Alan Goldsher

Metropolis

Metropolis

Thomas Elsaesser

BFI Film Classics (1)

The Glass Teat: Essays

The Glass Teat: Essays

The Other Glass Teat: Essays

The Other Glass Teat: Essays

New Queer Horror Film and Television

New Queer Horror Film and Television

Darren Elliott-Smith & John Edgar Browning

Queer Horror Film and Television: Sexuality and Masculinity at the Margins

Queer Horror Film and Television: Sexuality and Masculinity ...

Darren Elliott-Smith

Library of Gender and Popular Culture (1)

The Best Film You've Never Seen: 35 Directors Champion the Forgotten or Critically Savaged Movies They Love

The Best Film You've Never Seen: 35 Directors Champion the Forgotten ...

Robert K. Elder

"Baad Bitches" and Sassy Supermamas: Black Power Action Films

"Baad Bitches" and Sassy Supermamas: Black Power Action Films

New Black Studies Series (1)

Cinema at the Margins

Cinema at the Margins

New Perspectives on World Cinema (1)

Off Key: When Film and Music Won't Work Together

Off Key: When Film and Music Won't Work Together

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

Cultographies (1)

Movie Comics: Page to Screen/Screen to Page

Movie Comics: Page to Screen/Screen to Page

The Battle for the Bs: 1950s Hollywood and the Rebirth of Low-Budget Cinema

The Battle for the Bs: 1950s Hollywood and the Rebirth of Low-Budget ...

Comic Book Movies

Comic Book Movies

Wicked Cinema: Sex and Religion on Screen

Wicked Cinema: Sex and Religion on Screen

Daniel S. Cutrara

Raising Hell: Ken Russell and the Unmaking of the Devils

Raising Hell: Ken Russell and the Unmaking of the Devils

Horror Zone: The Cultural Experience of Contemporary Horror Cinema

Horror Zone: The Cultural Experience of Contemporary Horror ...

Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film - Updated Edition

Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film ...

Carol J. Clover

Why Horror Seduces

Why Horror Seduces

Grindhouse Nostalgia: Memory, Home Video and Exploitation Film Fandom

Grindhouse Nostalgia: Memory, Home Video and Exploitation Film ...

The Superhero Symbol: Media, Culture, and Politics

The Superhero Symbol: Media, Culture, and Politics

Liam Burke & Ian Gordon & Henry Jenkins & Neal Curtis & Jason Bainbridge & Mitchell Adams & Tara Lomax & Dan Golding & Steven Conway & Claire Langsford & Vladislav Iouchkov & John McGuire & Naja Later & Paul M. Malone & Shan Mu Zhao & Kevin Patrick & Angela Ndalianis

Draculas, Vampires, and Other Undead Forms: Essays on Gender, Race and Culture

Draculas, Vampires, and Other Undead Forms: Essays on Gender, ...

John Edgar Browning & Caroline Joan "kay" S. Picart

Hooked: Drug War Films in Britain, Canada, and the U.S.

Hooked: Drug War Films in Britain, Canada, and the U.S.

Routledge Advances in Criminology (1)

Mad Men: A Cultural History

Mad Men: A Cultural History

M. Keith Booker & Bob Batchelor

The Cultural History of Television (1)

Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films, Updated and Expanded 5th Edition

Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive ...

Writing the Horror Movie

Writing the Horror Movie

Marc Blake & Sara Bailey

Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Fil

Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of ...

My Lunches With Orson: Conversations Between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles

My Lunches With Orson: Conversations Between Henry Jaglom and ...

Seeing Is Believing: How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the Fifties

Seeing Is Believing: How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying ...

Badfilm: Incompetence, Intention and Failure

Badfilm: Incompetence, Intention and Failure

Final Cut: Art, Money, and Ego in the Making of Heaven's Gate, the Film That Sank United Artists

Final Cut: Art, Money, and Ego in the Making of Heaven's Gate, ...

Insider Filmbooks Series (1)

Smutty Little Movies: The Creation and Regulation of Adult Video

Smutty Little Movies: The Creation and Regulation of Adult Video