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| Author | : Steve A. Wiggins |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2018-12-03 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1476633711 |
What, exactly, makes us afraid? Is it monsters, gore, the unknown? Perhaps it's a biblical sense of malice, lurking unnoticed in the corners of horror films. Holy Writ attempts to ward off aliens, ghosts, witches, psychopaths and demons, yet it often becomes a source of evil itself. Looking first at Psycho (1960) and continuing through 2017, this book analyzes the starring and supporting roles of the Good Book in horror films, monster movies and thrillers to discover why it incites such fear. In a culture with high biblical awareness and low biblical literacy, horrific portrayals can greatly influence an audience's canonical beliefs.
| Author | : Steve A. Wiggins |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2018-12-28 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1476674663 |
What, exactly, makes us afraid? Is it monsters, gore, the unknown? Perhaps it's a biblical sense of malice, lurking unnoticed in the corners of horror films. Holy Writ attempts to ward off aliens, ghosts, witches, psychopaths and demons, yet it often becomes a source of evil itself. Looking first at Psycho (1960) and continuing through 2017, this book analyzes the starring and supporting roles of the Good Book in horror films, monster movies and thrillers to discover why it incites such fear. In a culture with high biblical awareness and low biblical literacy, horrific portrayals can greatly influence an audience's canonical beliefs.
| Author | : Kirk Schneider |
| Publisher | : Open Court |
| Total Pages | : 170 |
| Release | : 2013-12-01 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 0812698754 |
Dr. Schneider draws upon a detailed and telling analysis of eleven well-known horror stories: Dracula, Frankenstein, The Phantom of the Opera, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Invisible Man, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Birds, Forbidden Planet, Vertigo, and Alien. He finds that a spiritual understanding of life can be attained through horror. Classic horror steers a middle path between fanaticism and despair: the path of wonderment. Horror teaches us that the human personality is paradoxical, that revulsion and disgust are the obverse of excitement and freedom, and that both poles are vital to individual, social, and ecological well-being.
| Author | : Douglas E. Cowan |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2016-04 |
| Genre | : Horror films |
| ISBN | : 9781481304900 |
Sacred Terror examines the religious elements lurking in horror films. It answers a simple but profound question: When there are so many other scary things around, why is religion so often used to tell a scary story? In this lucid, provocative book, Douglas Cowan argues that horror films are opportune vehicles for externalizing the fears that lie inside our religious selves: of evil; of the flesh; of sacred places; of a change in the sacred order; of the supernatural gone out of control; of death, dying badly, or not remaining dead; of fanaticism; and of the power--and the powerlessness--of religion.
| Author | : Dominic Lennard |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 198 |
| Release | : 2014-10-09 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1438453302 |
Since the 1950s, children have provided some of horror's most effective and enduring villains, from dainty psychopath Rhoda Penmark of The Bad Seed (1956) and spectacularly possessed Regan MacNeil of The Exorcist (1973) to psychic ghost-girl Samara of The Ring (2002) and adopted terror Esther of Orphan (2009). Using a variety of critical approaches, including those of cinema studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and psychoanalysis, Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors offers the first full-length study of these child monsters. In doing so, the book highlights horror as a topic of analysis that is especially pertinent socially and politically, exposing the genre as a site of deep ambivalence toward—and even hatred of—children.
| Author | : Cynthia J. Miller |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 254 |
| Release | : 2017-05-15 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1476629846 |
From Rosemary's Baby (1968) to The Witch (2015), horror films use religious entities to both inspire and combat fear and to call into question or affirm the moral order. Churches provide sanctuary, clergy cast out evil, religious icons become weapons, holy ground becomes battleground--but all of these may be turned from their original purpose. This collection of new essays explores fifty years of genre horror in which manifestations of the sacred or profane play a material role. The contributors explore portrayals of the war between good and evil and their archetypes in such classics as The Omen (1976), The Exorcist (1973) and Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968), as well as in popular franchises like Hellraiser and Hellboy and cult films such as God Told Me To (1976), Thirst (2009) and Frailty (2001).
| Author | : Arthur Machen |
| Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 131 |
| Release | : 2018-11-22 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1528785258 |
This vintage book contains a collection of chilling and macabre stories by Welsh author and mystic Arthur Machan. The stories include: “The Brightest Boy”, “The Tree of Life”, “Opening the Door”, “The Marriage of Panurge”, “The Holy Things”, “Psychology”, “The Turanians”, “The Rose Garden”, “The Ceremony”, “The Soldiers' Rest”, “The Happy Children”, “The Cosy Room”, “Munitions of War”, “The Great Return”, and more. These unsettling supernatural tales are not to be missed by lovers of horror or mystery fiction, and they would make for worthy additions to allied collections. Arthur Machen (1863 – 1947) was a Welsh author and renowned mystic during the 1890s and early 20th century who garnered literary acclaim for his contributions to the supernatural, horror, and fantasy fiction genres. His seminal novella “The Great God Pan” (1890) has become a classic of horror fiction, with Stephen King describing it as one of the best horror stories ever written in the English language. Other notable fans of his gruesome tales include William Butler Yeats and Arthur Conan Doyle; and his work has been compared to that of Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, and Oscar Wilde. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.
| Author | : James Herbert |
| Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 544 |
| Release | : 2011-05-11 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1447203283 |
Now a major film called The Unholy starring The Walking Dead's Jeffrey Dean Morgan. In James Herbert's horror novel Shrine, innocence and evil have become one . . . A little girl called Alice. A deaf-mute. A vision. A lady in shimmering white who says she is the immaculate conception. And Alice can suddenly hear and speak, and she can perform miracles. Soon the site of the visitation, beneath an ancient oak tree, has become a shrine, a holy place for thousands of pilgrims. But Alice is no longer the guileless child overwhelmed by her new saintliness. She has become the agent of something corrupt, a vile force that is centuries old.
| Author | : Matthew Stokoe |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2015-10-31 |
| Genre | : Alienation (Social psychology) |
| ISBN | : 9780987453662 |
Twenty-five-year-old Steven faces a bleak life with a sadistic mother and a job at a slaughterhouse where he is confronted with extreme violence and death.
| Author | : Samuel L MacGregor Mathers |
| Publisher | : Cosimo, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 2010-01-01 |
| Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
| ISBN | : 1616402555 |
The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage-originally published in 1900, translated by Samuel Mathers from a 15th-century French document-was purportedly written by Abraham for his son Lamech. Within this volume are three books. The first book is Abraham's autobiography in which he speaks to his son. The second book is an explanation of the purification rituals necessary to bring the magician's personal demon under his control. And the third book details what feats can be accomplished once the practitioner is able to use a form of magic controlled and directed through sigils of magic words written on a grid. Anyone with an interest in the occult will find this an interesting, though perhaps impractical, guide for exploring mystic arts.
