Author: Nera Vivaldi
Publisher: Nera Vivaldi
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Jackie wants to survive the game’s ending. But she may not make it to the next level. The last thing Jackie and her new friends expected was to wake up in a virtual reality nightmare hosted by 1-Up, a student of eighties slashers. With knives hung over their real-world hearts, set to penetrate them if their hit points reach zero, Jackie and her fellow players will have to level up to escape their digital prison, or else it’s game over forever. Things you can expect in this book A love letter to video store slashers. Female protagonist. GameLit/LitRPG mechanics and messages. Splattergore and extreme murder scene
Slasher Online
Author: Nera Vivaldi
Publisher: Nera Vivaldi
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Jackie wants to survive the game’s ending. But she may not make it to the next level. The last thing Jackie and her new friends expected was to wake up in a virtual reality nightmare hosted by 1-Up, a student of eighties slashers. With knives hung over their real-world hearts, set to penetrate them if their hit points reach zero, Jackie and her fellow players will have to level up to escape their digital prison, or else it’s game over forever. Things you can expect in this book A love letter to video store slashers. Female protagonist. GameLit/LitRPG mechanics and messages. Splattergore and extreme murder scene
Publisher: Nera Vivaldi
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Jackie wants to survive the game’s ending. But she may not make it to the next level. The last thing Jackie and her new friends expected was to wake up in a virtual reality nightmare hosted by 1-Up, a student of eighties slashers. With knives hung over their real-world hearts, set to penetrate them if their hit points reach zero, Jackie and her fellow players will have to level up to escape their digital prison, or else it’s game over forever. Things you can expect in this book A love letter to video store slashers. Female protagonist. GameLit/LitRPG mechanics and messages. Splattergore and extreme murder scene
Slasher Sam
Author: Simon Petersen
Publisher: Darkwater Syndicate, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Taking inspiration from several generations of horror films, blogger/serial killer Sam guts countless victims in creative ways, and posts these exploits to the Internet for the world to see, putting readers so close to the action that they’re practically in the splash zone when the blood goes flying. In cyberspace, everyone can hear you scream...
Publisher: Darkwater Syndicate, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Taking inspiration from several generations of horror films, blogger/serial killer Sam guts countless victims in creative ways, and posts these exploits to the Internet for the world to see, putting readers so close to the action that they’re practically in the splash zone when the blood goes flying. In cyberspace, everyone can hear you scream...
The Mammoth Book of Slasher Movies
Author: Peter Normanton
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1780330413
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
An engrossing A-Z of over 60 gory years of slasher and splatter movies, from Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later to Lucio Fulci's Zombie Flesh Eaters. Here you will find the low-down on over 250 movies with entries from 23 different countries. The index, which includes every movie mentioned in the A-Z and accompanying notes, runs to 540 movies. The book includes the list of video nasties which the UK government attempted to ban.
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1780330413
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
An engrossing A-Z of over 60 gory years of slasher and splatter movies, from Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later to Lucio Fulci's Zombie Flesh Eaters. Here you will find the low-down on over 250 movies with entries from 23 different countries. The index, which includes every movie mentioned in the A-Z and accompanying notes, runs to 540 movies. The book includes the list of video nasties which the UK government attempted to ban.
Dark Web Mysteries: True Crime Tales From The Hidden Internet
Author: ANONYMOUS
Publisher: ANONYMOUS
ISBN:
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Dark Web Mysteries: True Crime Tales From The Hidden Internet delves into the shadowy world of the Dark Web, exploring its origins, dangerous crimes, and chilling mysteries. This captivating collection of true crime stories uncovers the darker side of the internet, showcasing infamous marketplaces, murder-for-hire schemes, drug trade, and human trafficking. The book also investigates the role of cryptocurrency in criminal activities, including money laundering, scams, and schemes. Readers are introduced to the disturbing realm of dark web serial killers, analyzing their psychological profiles and examining unsolved murder cases. Dark Web Mysteries shines a light on the role of hackers and cyber warfare, exploring the underground hacker community, state-sponsored cyber attacks, and cybersecurity threats. It delves into unsolved mysteries, including cryptic codes, mysterious disappearances, and bizarre rituals. The book examines the challenges faced by law enforcement in battling the Dark Web, showcases vigilantes seeking justice, and delves into darker topics like cannibalism networks, espionage, urban legends, and black market activities. It also includes redemption stories, where former dark web operatives share their experiences and survivors of dark web abduction tell their stories. With its gripping tales and in-depth analysis, Dark Web Mysteries offers a chilling exploration of the hidden depths of the internet, providing readers with a thought-provoking and haunting journey into the underbelly of society.
Publisher: ANONYMOUS
ISBN:
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Dark Web Mysteries: True Crime Tales From The Hidden Internet delves into the shadowy world of the Dark Web, exploring its origins, dangerous crimes, and chilling mysteries. This captivating collection of true crime stories uncovers the darker side of the internet, showcasing infamous marketplaces, murder-for-hire schemes, drug trade, and human trafficking. The book also investigates the role of cryptocurrency in criminal activities, including money laundering, scams, and schemes. Readers are introduced to the disturbing realm of dark web serial killers, analyzing their psychological profiles and examining unsolved murder cases. Dark Web Mysteries shines a light on the role of hackers and cyber warfare, exploring the underground hacker community, state-sponsored cyber attacks, and cybersecurity threats. It delves into unsolved mysteries, including cryptic codes, mysterious disappearances, and bizarre rituals. The book examines the challenges faced by law enforcement in battling the Dark Web, showcases vigilantes seeking justice, and delves into darker topics like cannibalism networks, espionage, urban legends, and black market activities. It also includes redemption stories, where former dark web operatives share their experiences and survivors of dark web abduction tell their stories. With its gripping tales and in-depth analysis, Dark Web Mysteries offers a chilling exploration of the hidden depths of the internet, providing readers with a thought-provoking and haunting journey into the underbelly of society.
Slasher Girls & Monster Boys
Author: April Genevieve Tucholke
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0147514088
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
For fans of Stephen King, American Horror Story and The Walking Dead comes a powerhouse anthology featuring some of the best thriller and horror writers in YA Stefan Bachmann, Leigh Bardugo, Kendare Blake, A. G. Howard, Jay Kristoff, Marie Lu, Jonathan Maberry, Danielle Paige, Carrie Ryan, Megan Shepherd, Nova Ren Suma, McCormick Templeman, April Genevieve Tucholke, Cat Winters A host of the sharpest young adult authors come together in this collection of terrifying tales and psychological thrillers. Each author draws from a mix of literature, film, television, and music to create something new and fresh and unsettling. Clever readers will love teasing out the references and can satisfy their curiosity at the end of each tale, where the inspiration is revealed. There are no superficial scares here; these are stories that will make you think even as they keep you on the edge of your seat. From blood horror, to the supernatural, to unsettling, all-too-possible realism, this collection has something for anyone looking for an absolute thrill.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0147514088
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
For fans of Stephen King, American Horror Story and The Walking Dead comes a powerhouse anthology featuring some of the best thriller and horror writers in YA Stefan Bachmann, Leigh Bardugo, Kendare Blake, A. G. Howard, Jay Kristoff, Marie Lu, Jonathan Maberry, Danielle Paige, Carrie Ryan, Megan Shepherd, Nova Ren Suma, McCormick Templeman, April Genevieve Tucholke, Cat Winters A host of the sharpest young adult authors come together in this collection of terrifying tales and psychological thrillers. Each author draws from a mix of literature, film, television, and music to create something new and fresh and unsettling. Clever readers will love teasing out the references and can satisfy their curiosity at the end of each tale, where the inspiration is revealed. There are no superficial scares here; these are stories that will make you think even as they keep you on the edge of your seat. From blood horror, to the supernatural, to unsettling, all-too-possible realism, this collection has something for anyone looking for an absolute thrill.
My Heart Is a Chainsaw
Author: Stephen Graham Jones
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982137657
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel In her quickly gentrifying rural lake town Jade sees recent events only her encyclopedic knowledge of horror films could have prepared her for in this latest chilling novel that “will give you nightmares. The good kind, of course” (BuzzFeed) from the Jordan Peele of horror literature, Stephen Graham Jones. “Some girls just don’t know how to die…” Shirley Jackson meets Friday the 13th in My Heart Is a Chainsaw, written by the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians Stephen Graham Jones, called “a literary master” by National Book Award winner Tananarive Due and “one of our most talented living writers” by Tommy Orange. Alma Katsu calls My Heart Is a Chainsaw “a homage to slasher films that also manages to defy and transcend genre.” On the surface is a story of murder in small-town America. But beneath is its beating heart: a biting critique of American colonialism, Indigenous displacement, and gentrification, and a heartbreaking portrait of a broken young girl who uses horror movies to cope with the horror of her own life. Jade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants nothing to do with her. She lives in her own world, a world in which protection comes from an unusual source: horror movies…especially the ones where a masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them. And Jade narrates the quirky history of Proofrock as if it is one of those movies. But when blood actually starts to spill into the waters of Indian Lake, she pulls us into her dizzying, encyclopedic mind of blood and masked murderers, and predicts exactly how the plot will unfold. Yet, even as Jade drags us into her dark fever dream, a surprising and intimate portrait emerges…a portrait of the scared and traumatized little girl beneath the Jason Voorhees mask: angry, yes, but also a girl who easily cries, fiercely loves, and desperately wants a home. A girl whose feelings are too big for her body. My Heart Is a Chainsaw is her story, her homage to horror and revenge and triumph.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982137657
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel In her quickly gentrifying rural lake town Jade sees recent events only her encyclopedic knowledge of horror films could have prepared her for in this latest chilling novel that “will give you nightmares. The good kind, of course” (BuzzFeed) from the Jordan Peele of horror literature, Stephen Graham Jones. “Some girls just don’t know how to die…” Shirley Jackson meets Friday the 13th in My Heart Is a Chainsaw, written by the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians Stephen Graham Jones, called “a literary master” by National Book Award winner Tananarive Due and “one of our most talented living writers” by Tommy Orange. Alma Katsu calls My Heart Is a Chainsaw “a homage to slasher films that also manages to defy and transcend genre.” On the surface is a story of murder in small-town America. But beneath is its beating heart: a biting critique of American colonialism, Indigenous displacement, and gentrification, and a heartbreaking portrait of a broken young girl who uses horror movies to cope with the horror of her own life. Jade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants nothing to do with her. She lives in her own world, a world in which protection comes from an unusual source: horror movies…especially the ones where a masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them. And Jade narrates the quirky history of Proofrock as if it is one of those movies. But when blood actually starts to spill into the waters of Indian Lake, she pulls us into her dizzying, encyclopedic mind of blood and masked murderers, and predicts exactly how the plot will unfold. Yet, even as Jade drags us into her dark fever dream, a surprising and intimate portrait emerges…a portrait of the scared and traumatized little girl beneath the Jason Voorhees mask: angry, yes, but also a girl who easily cries, fiercely loves, and desperately wants a home. A girl whose feelings are too big for her body. My Heart Is a Chainsaw is her story, her homage to horror and revenge and triumph.
Halloween
Author: Mark Bernard
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351734156
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
This book argues that Halloween need not be the first nor the most influential youth slasher film for it to hold a special place in the history of youth cinema. John Carpenter’s 1978 horror hit was once considered the be-all, end-all of teen slasher cinema and was regarded as the first, the best, and the most influential American slasher film. Recent revisions in film history, however, have challenged Halloween’s comfortable place in the canon of youth horror cinema. However, this book argues that the film, like no other, draws from the themes, imagery, and obsessions that fueled youth horror cinema since the 1950s—Gothic atmosphere, atomic dread, twisted psychology, and alienated teenage monsters—and ties them together in the deceptively simple story of a masked killer on Halloween night. Along the way, the film delivers a savage critique of social institutions and their failure to protect young people. Halloween also depicts a cadre of compelling and complicated youth characters: teenage babysitters watching over preadolescents as a killer, who is viciously avoiding the responsibilities of young adulthood, stalks them through the shadows. This book explores all these aspects of Halloween, including the franchise it spawned, providing an invaluable insight into this iconic film for students and researchers alike.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351734156
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
This book argues that Halloween need not be the first nor the most influential youth slasher film for it to hold a special place in the history of youth cinema. John Carpenter’s 1978 horror hit was once considered the be-all, end-all of teen slasher cinema and was regarded as the first, the best, and the most influential American slasher film. Recent revisions in film history, however, have challenged Halloween’s comfortable place in the canon of youth horror cinema. However, this book argues that the film, like no other, draws from the themes, imagery, and obsessions that fueled youth horror cinema since the 1950s—Gothic atmosphere, atomic dread, twisted psychology, and alienated teenage monsters—and ties them together in the deceptively simple story of a masked killer on Halloween night. Along the way, the film delivers a savage critique of social institutions and their failure to protect young people. Halloween also depicts a cadre of compelling and complicated youth characters: teenage babysitters watching over preadolescents as a killer, who is viciously avoiding the responsibilities of young adulthood, stalks them through the shadows. This book explores all these aspects of Halloween, including the franchise it spawned, providing an invaluable insight into this iconic film for students and researchers alike.
Framing Fan Fiction
Author: Kristina Busse
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609385144
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Gathering some of Kristina Busse’s essential essays on fan fiction together with new work, Framing Fan Fiction argues that understanding media fandom requires combining literary theory with cultural studies because fan artifacts are both artistic works and cultural documents. Drawing examples from a multitude of fan communities and texts, Busse frames fan fiction in three key ways: as individual and collective erotic engagement; as a shared interpretive practice in which tropes constitute shared creative markers and illustrate the complexity of fan creations; and as a point of contention around which community conflicts over ethics play out. Moving between close readings of individual texts and fannish tropes on the one hand, and the highly intertextual embeddedness of these communal creations on the other, the book demonstrates that fan fiction is simultaneously a literary and a social practice. Framing Fan Fiction deploys personal history and the interpretations of specific stories to contextualize fan fiction culture and its particular forms of intertextuality and performativity. In doing so, it highlights the way fans use fan fiction’s reimagining of the source material to explore issues of identities and peformativities, gender and sexualities, within a community of like-minded people. In contrast to the celebration of originality in many other areas of artistic endeavor, fan fiction celebrates repetition, especially the collective creation and circulation of tropes. An essential resource for scholars, Framing Fan Fiction is also an ideal starting point for those new to the study of fan fiction and its communities of writers.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609385144
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Gathering some of Kristina Busse’s essential essays on fan fiction together with new work, Framing Fan Fiction argues that understanding media fandom requires combining literary theory with cultural studies because fan artifacts are both artistic works and cultural documents. Drawing examples from a multitude of fan communities and texts, Busse frames fan fiction in three key ways: as individual and collective erotic engagement; as a shared interpretive practice in which tropes constitute shared creative markers and illustrate the complexity of fan creations; and as a point of contention around which community conflicts over ethics play out. Moving between close readings of individual texts and fannish tropes on the one hand, and the highly intertextual embeddedness of these communal creations on the other, the book demonstrates that fan fiction is simultaneously a literary and a social practice. Framing Fan Fiction deploys personal history and the interpretations of specific stories to contextualize fan fiction culture and its particular forms of intertextuality and performativity. In doing so, it highlights the way fans use fan fiction’s reimagining of the source material to explore issues of identities and peformativities, gender and sexualities, within a community of like-minded people. In contrast to the celebration of originality in many other areas of artistic endeavor, fan fiction celebrates repetition, especially the collective creation and circulation of tropes. An essential resource for scholars, Framing Fan Fiction is also an ideal starting point for those new to the study of fan fiction and its communities of writers.
The Thicket
Author: Noelle W. Ihli
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578946849
Category : Serial murderers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Would you recognize a real scream at Halloween? That's the question haunting Norah Lewis. She heard -and ignored-her brother's last screams on the night he died. Because nothing in the haunted house was supposed to be real. Not the screams. Not the knife-wielding psychopaths. And not the blood.In the wake of the slayings, parent groups and PTAs lobby for a shutdown while thrill seekers-including many of Norah's classmates- clamor to visit the "real" haunted house.Tormented by survivor's guilt, Norah secretly plans to retrace her brother's final steps.But the killer hasn't chosen his hunting ground at random. And, like Norah, he plans to return.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578946849
Category : Serial murderers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Would you recognize a real scream at Halloween? That's the question haunting Norah Lewis. She heard -and ignored-her brother's last screams on the night he died. Because nothing in the haunted house was supposed to be real. Not the screams. Not the knife-wielding psychopaths. And not the blood.In the wake of the slayings, parent groups and PTAs lobby for a shutdown while thrill seekers-including many of Norah's classmates- clamor to visit the "real" haunted house.Tormented by survivor's guilt, Norah secretly plans to retrace her brother's final steps.But the killer hasn't chosen his hunting ground at random. And, like Norah, he plans to return.
Slasher Films
Author: Kent Byron Armstrong
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The slasher film genre got its start in the early 1960s when acclaimed filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock and Michael Powell made provocative mainstream film such as Psycho and Peeping Tom, but it is most associated with the late 1970s and the releases of Halloween and Friday the 13th. They have been frightening and thrilling audiences ever since with their bloody scenes and crazed killers. Over 250 slasher films are presented in this work. Entries provide major cast and production credits, a plot synopsis, and a short critique; interesting production notes are often provided. Some of the films covered include Alice, Sweet Alice, American Psycho, The Burning, Cherry Falls, Curtains, Deep Red, Frenzy, Hide and Go Shriek, Maniac, Prom Night, Scream, Sleepaway Camp, Slumber Party Massacre, and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Filmographies are provided for slasher directors, actors, writers, and composers.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The slasher film genre got its start in the early 1960s when acclaimed filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock and Michael Powell made provocative mainstream film such as Psycho and Peeping Tom, but it is most associated with the late 1970s and the releases of Halloween and Friday the 13th. They have been frightening and thrilling audiences ever since with their bloody scenes and crazed killers. Over 250 slasher films are presented in this work. Entries provide major cast and production credits, a plot synopsis, and a short critique; interesting production notes are often provided. Some of the films covered include Alice, Sweet Alice, American Psycho, The Burning, Cherry Falls, Curtains, Deep Red, Frenzy, Hide and Go Shriek, Maniac, Prom Night, Scream, Sleepaway Camp, Slumber Party Massacre, and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Filmographies are provided for slasher directors, actors, writers, and composers.