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The award-winning author of the Hexslinger Series "explores the
world of film and horror in a way that will leave you reeling"
(Jeff VanderMeer, author of the Southern Reach Trilogy). Former
film teacher Lois Cairns is struggling to raise her autistic son
while freelancing as a critic when, at a screening, she happens
upon a sampled piece of silver nitrate silent footage. She is able
to connect it to the early work of Mrs. Iris Dunlopp Whitcomb, the
spiritualist and collector of fairy tales who mysteriously
disappeared from a train compartment in 1918. Hoping to make her
own mark on the film world, Lois embarks on a project to prove that
Whitcomb was Canada's first female filmmaker. But her research
takes her down a path not of darkness but of light-the blinding and
searing light of a fairy tale made flesh, a noontime demon who
demands that duty must be paid. As Lois discovers terrifying
parallels between her own life and that of Mrs. Whitcomb, she
begins to fear not just for herself, but for those closest to her
heart. Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel "One of
the standout horror novels of 2015 . . . From an author who has
already established herself as one of the genre's most original and
innovative voices, Experimental Film is a remarkable achievement."
-Los Angeles Review of Books "Experimental Film represents the
next, significant contribution to what is emerging as one of the
most interesting and exciting bodies of work currently being
produced in the horror field. Every film, Lois Cairns writes, is an
experiment. The same might be said of every novel. This one
succeeds, wildly." -Locus "Experimental Film is sensational. When
we speak of the best in contemporary horror and weird fiction, we
must speak of Gemma Files." -Laird Barron
The Evolution of Horror in the Twenty-First Century examines the
intimate connections between the horror genre and its audience's
experience of being in the world at a particular historical and
cultural moment. This book not only provides frameworks with which
to understand contemporary horror, but it also speaks to the
changes wrought by technological development in creation,
production, and distribution, as well as the ways in which those
who are traditionally underrepresented positively within the genre-
women, LGBTQ+, indigenous, and BAME communities - are finally being
seen and finding space to speak.
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The Entity (Paperback)
Frank De Felitta; Introduction by Gemma Files
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R637
Discovery Miles 6 370
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Aghast (Paperback)
Gemma Files, Jeff Strand, Tim Waggoner
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R408
Discovery Miles 4 080
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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The second book in the “top-notch horror-fantasy saga,”
following A Book of Tongues, is “a spectacular blend of Aztec
religion and Western gunslinging (Publishers Weekly).
Welcome to Hex City. Population: magicians. Thanks to hexslinger
“Reverend” Asher Rook, sorcerers now have a sanctuary where
they can live and work in peace. But a storm is coming—a tempest
known as Chess Pargeter. Infuriated by his former lover
Rook’s betrayal and sacrificed in the name of the Mayan goddess
who is Rook’s current consort, Chess leaves a trail of death and
destruction in his wake. Caught up in Chess’s crusade is
Pinkerton-agent-turned-outlaw Ed Morrow and a young woman
spiritualist. But there are more than Chess’s own demons to be
reckoned with, including a resurrected lawman with a bone to
pick—and a final judgment to deliver . . .
“Paints a stark, vivid, and gory picture of the ‘wild
west’ in the years following the Civil
War . . . Files’s latest is not for the
squeamish but should delight fans of gothic Western fantasy and
Central American myths.” —Library Journal “Files’
prose remains a delight to read, the cadence of her sentences
captures the wild west setting perfectly, and the images she paints
are a fascinating mix of frontier practicality and magic bred
surrealism.” —The Turned Brain Praise for A Book of
Tongues “Boundary-busting
horror–fantasy . . . This promising debut fully
delivers both sizzling passions and dark chills.” —Publishers
Weekly “Ridiculously vivid . . . A
magic-riddled, horror-strewn West with hexes running around
wrecking reality and a spectrum of queer characters.” —Tor.com
“Truly one-of-a-kind: violent, carnal and creepy.”
—Fangoria
Future Folk Horror: Contemporary Anxieties and Possible Futures
analyzes folk horror by looking at its recent popularity in novels
and films such as The Witch (2015), and Candyman (2021). Countering
traditional views of the genre as depictions of the monstrous,
rural, and pagan past trying to consume the present, the
contributors to this collection posit folk horror as being able to
uniquely capture the anxieties of the twenty-first century, caused
by an ongoing pandemic and the divisive populist politics that have
arisen around it. Further, this book shows how, through its
increasing intersections with other genres such as science fiction,
the weird, and eco-criticism as seen in films and texts like The
Zero Theorum (2013), The Witcher (2007–21), and Annihilation
(2018) as well as through its engagement with topics around climate
change, racism, and identity politics, folk horror can point to
other ways of being in the world and visions of possible futures.
“The rousing conclusion to Files’s remarkable Hexslinger
trilogy . . . A bravura performance” from the
author of A Book of Tongues and A Rope of Thorns (Publishers
Weekly). A new Civil War is brewing. With the city of
Bewelcome as its headquarters, Allan Pinkerton’s Detective Agency
leads a siege on Hex City, the town founded by “Reverend” Asher
Rook and his consort, the Mayan goddess Ixchel. Monsters prowl the
battleground, rocket trails of spells crisscross the sky, and an
unnatural rain falls. Sides must be taken, but
Pinkerton-agent-turned-outlaw Ed Morrow, spiritualist Yancey
Kloves, and even Rook must choose what ruin or redemption means to
each of them. Meanwhile, Chess Pargeter gears up for the greatest
fight of his life—and death. A battle out of hell
itself . . . Praise for the Hexslinger
Series “Gemma’s been producing top-notch horror stories
for years, and her weird Western Hexslinger trilogy is chock full
of hellish horrors.” —Mike Allen, author of Unseaming
“Potent mythology, complex characters, and dollops of creeping
horror and baroque gore establish Files’s Hexslinger series as a
top-notch horror-fantasy saga.” —Publishers Weekly
“Paints a stark, vivid, and gory picture of the ‘wild west’
in the years following the Civil War . . .
Files’s latest is not for the squeamish but should delight fans
of gothic Western fantasy and Central American myths.” —Library
Journal “Ridiculously vivid . . . A
magic-riddled, horror-strewn West with hexes running around
wrecking reality and a spectrum of queer characters.” —Tor.com
“Truly one-of-a-kind: violent, carnal and creepy.”
—Fangoria
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Fearful Symmetries (Hardcover)
Ellen Datlow; Contributions by Nathan Ballingrud, Laird Barron, Pat Cadigan, Siobhan Carroll, …
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R874
Discovery Miles 8 740
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Out of stock
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From Ellen Datlow, award-winning and genre-shaping editor of more
than fifty anthologies, and twenty of horror's established masters
and rising stars, comes an all-original look into the beautiful,
terrible, tragic, and terrifying. Wander through visions of the
most terrible of angels, the Seven who would undo the world.
Venture through Hell and back, and lands more terrestrial and
darker still. Linger a while in childhoods, and seasons of change
by turns tragic and monstrously transformative. Lose yourself
amongst the haunted and those who can't let go, in relationships
that might have been and never were. Witness in dreams and
reflections, hungers and horrors, the shadows cast upon the wall,
and linger in forests deep. Come see what burns so bright. . . .
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