Art Horror

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’.

気鋭の怪異民話蒐集家が北陸の怪談奇譚をじっくりと深掘り！くるまれたカーディガンの隙間からはみ出したもの甕の中にみっしりと詰まってこちらを見つめるのは…

怪談界大乱世のリングにこの男がシリーズ初参戦！怪談の魅力炸裂！怖い物好きだからこそ出遭ってしまう〝あるある〟な体験談から海外ロケで訪れた世界的に有名な曰く付きホテルでの出

3話目あたりでクセになる！超絶不思議なガンジー怪談にピンポ～イント！怖い、不思議、ある意味ヤバイ！数多の職種に携わった経験者だけが出せるリアル感！

心の奥にそっとしまっておきたい不安と郷愁を誘う8編の怪異譚「2，3日あっちへ行ってくるけん…目ぇ覚まさんでも心配せんでええよ」街道筋でふと途切れた生活音。

黒衣のクールビューティが放つ戦慄のスーパーショット！
ユタの末裔でありパラリーガルとして数多の事件に携わった怪談師千山のシャープな語りが脳髄を貫通する！

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鬼を祀る神社で…信長ゆかりの寺で…人柱伝承のある川の堤で…大阪や関西に纏わるエピソードを中心に摩訶不思議な奇談怪談が満載！地元大阪を初め、関西一帯の不

場末の袋小路―そこには極上の怪を振る舞う店がある竹書房Presents怪談最恐戦2020優勝！酒と猫と厭な話を愛する怪談師が各地の銘店で集めた極上の奇譚！

誰も避けては通れない！
魂の送り人が見つめ、集めた実話集！
竹書房Presents「怪談最恐戦」2019優勝！
元火葬場職員にして新・怪談王、下駄華緒が語る生の終わり

What would you get if you mixed Edgar Allan Poe, Alfred Hitchcock, and Stephen King? The answer might be something resembling Howard Phillips Lovecraft, an extremely influential poet and author who mixed science fiction, horror, and fantasy into a subgenre known as “weird fiction”. H.P. Lovecraft: The Life and Career of the Influential Horror Fiction Author chronicles how Lovecraft became one of the 20th century’s most important writers.

「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.

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is a French Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831. It focuses on the unfortunate story of Quasimodo, the Romani street dancer Esmeralda and Quasimodo's guardian, the Archdeacon Claude Frollo in 15th-century Paris.

Street thug Riko has some serious issues--memories wiped, reputation tanked, girlfriend turned into a tech-fueled zombie. And the only people who can help are the mercenaries who think she screwed them over. In an apathetic society devoid of ethics or regulation, where fusing tech and flesh can...

“It begins with a child . . .” So opens Jane Mendelsohn’s powerful, riveting new novel. A classic family tale colliding with the twenty-first century, Burning Down the House tells the story of two girls. Neva, from the mountains of Russia, was sold into the sex trade at the age of ten...

Acclaimed author Arturo Pérez-Reverte has earned a distinguished reputation as a master of the literary thriller. Now, he gives us his most accomplished novel to date. Andrés Faulques, a world-renowned war photographer, has retired to a life of solitude on the Spanish coast. He spends his days...

For listeners of Roberto Bolaño’s Savage Detectives and Muriel Spark’s Loitering with Intent, this “sublime” and “delightfully unhinged” metaphysical mystery disguised as a picaresque romp follows one poet’s spectacular fall from grace to ask a vital question: Is everyone a...

“Dennis is in possession of hypnotic narrative gifts and a ferocious intellect. With Her Here, she has claimed her place in the literary world.” ―Rebecca Makkai, author of Music for Wartime and The Great Believers “In Her Here, Dennis has written a metaphysical investigation that is...

From bestselling and award-winning author T.C. Boyle, a lively, thought-provoking novel that asks us what it would be like if we could really talk to the animals When animal behaviorist Guy Schermerhorn demonstrates on a TV game show that he has taught Sam, his juvenile chimp, to speak in sign...