Let's Scare 'em!

Let's Scare 'em!
Author: Rick Atkins
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1997
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

Since the sound film appearances of Boris Karloff as Frankensteins monster, Bla Lugosi as the Count, and Lon Chaney as the Wolf Man, audiences have enjoyed horror and fantasy thrillers. This work documents and illustrates the suspension of disbelief and audience manipulation integral to these three decades of horror, fantasy, and monster movies with interviews, with 122 photographs and a filmography of 251 of the best known (and some not so known) releases, beginning with The Cat Creeps (1930) through The Innocents (1961). Leading producers, directors, actors (e.g., Carl Laemmle, Jr., Kenneth Strickfaden, William Castle, John Carradine, and Forrest J Ackerman) discuss the genre, their colleagues, directing styles, business deals and moviemaking secrets. The extensive filmography covers 251 films and gives credits for the original story, screenwriter, camera, and production crew, and cast members and their roles.

The Gospel Game

The Gospel Game
Author: Allen G.
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2011
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1450238033

As violence engulfs the streets of Asbury Park over the highly coveted G-pill, Sincere Wiggles, also known as Gab, is sucked into a brutal war with the dark and eerie Santana, head of the Renegades, a criminal organization made up of ruthless outlaws. Gab's clash with Santana escalates to new heights as he comes face to face with "Ambassador Truth," an unknown adversary of Santana. The face-off evolves into an epic battle of good versus evil, as Gab is forced to confront the truth about himself and the mysterious G-pill that he and so many others have been trafficking on the streets of his hometown. Bursting with imagination and rich language, The Gospel Game is full of suspenseful twists and heart-stopping action that will leave you breathless. Gab's journey of self-discovery provides both a chilling glimpse of society at its worst and an uplifting depiction of the redemptive power of truth.

Sugar Fork

Sugar Fork
Author: Walt Larimore
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2012-10-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1439196850

In this sequel to Hazel Creek from award-winning author Walt Larimore, a loving rural family struggles to survive tragedy and cope with the invasion of modern ways in the 1920s. THIS CAPTIVATING STORY takes place in the Sugar Fork Valley of the Great Smoky Mountains wilderness during 1925–1926. Nate Randolph and his five unique daughters wrestle to survive after the death of Callie (his wife and their mother) as well as to maintain their farm, forests, family, and faith against an evil lumber company manager seeking to clear-cut their virgin woodland. A cast of delightful characters, including gypsy siblings, Cherokee Indians, a granny midwife, a world-famous writer, and even a flesh-and-blood Haint, join our heroine, sixteen-year-old Abbie Randolph, in her life-and-death struggle. Abbie falls in love for the first time, helps run the farm, and mothers her independent sisters while battling to preserve her faith when senseless murders threaten to destroy her family and way of life. Will the Randolph family survive intact? Will the farm be saved? Only a miracle could make it happen. With the march of the industrial age, especially industrial lumbering, the roaring twenties, Prohibition, the increasing momentum for a national park, and the onslaught of a modern world, trains, and radio communication, the traditional life and ways of our Southern Highlanders were about to change forever.

Sand

Sand
Author: Angela Ray
Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2020-01-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The old estate and the abandoned house hold many secrets. Unwittingly, the young Gypsy North and his new friend Ghost are involved in a fatal combination of circumstances: kidnapping, escaping from prison, the certain death in the swamps and an unexpected rescue. All random events are connected with the inhabitants of the estate and the old family curse. Three terrible deaths lie on the conscience of one of the members of the family.

The Mummy on Screen

The Mummy on Screen
Author: Basil Glynn
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2019-11-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1350129372

The Mummy is one of the most recognizable figures in horror and is as established in the popular imagination as virtually any other monster, yet the Mummy on screen has until now remained a largely overlooked figure in critical analysis of the cinema. In this compelling new study, Basil Glynn explores the history of the Mummy film, uncovering lost and half-forgotten movies along the way, revealing the cinematic Mummy to be an astonishingly diverse and protean figure with a myriad of on-screen incarnations. In the course of investigating the enduring appeal of this most 'Oriental' of monsters, Glynn traces the Mummy's development on screen from its roots in popular culture and silent cinema, through Universal Studios' Mummy movies of the 1930s and 40s, to Hammer Horror's re-imagining of the figure in the 1950s, and beyond.

The Hollywood Sequel

The Hollywood Sequel
Author: Stuart Henderson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2019-07-25
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1839020199

This illuminating study charts the changing role of the Hollywood film sequel over the past century. Considering a range of sequels in their industrial, historical and aesthetic contexts, from The Son of a Sheik (1926) to Toy Story 3 (2010), this book provides a comprehensive history of this critically-neglected yet commercially-dominant art form.

Voices of the Self

Voices of the Self
Author: Keith Gilyard
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 190
Release: 1991
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780814322253

An exploration of the key issues of language education for African Americans.

All Hallows

All Hallows
Author: Christopher Golden
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2023-01-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250280303

New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning author Christopher Golden is best known for his supernatural thrillers set in deadly, distant locales...but in this suburban Halloween drama, Golden brings the horror home. It’s Halloween night, 1984, in Coventry, Massachusetts, and two families are unraveling. Up and down the street, secrets are being revealed, and all the while, mixed in with the trick-or-treaters of all ages, four children who do not belong are walking door to door, merging with the kids of Parmenter Road. Children in vintage costumes with faded, eerie makeup. They seem terrified and beg the neighborhood kids to hide them away, to keep them safe from The Cunning Man. There’s a small clearing in the woods now that was never there before, and a blackthorn tree that doesn’t belong at all. These odd children claim that The Cunning Man is coming for them...and they want the local kids to protect them. But with families falling apart and the neighborhood splintered by bitterness, who will save the children of Parmenter Road? All Hallows. The one night when everything is a mask...

Soldier F: Guerillas in the Jungle

Soldier F: Guerillas in the Jungle
Author: Shaun Clarke
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2013-12-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 140884222X

In 1948 Communist terrorists were waging a bloody war against estates and rubber-plantation owners in Malaya. Chased into the interior by British Army units, the guerrillas soon became experts at survival and evasion, emerging from the jungle only to launch increasingly ferocious attacks. In 1952, on the recommendation of Lieutenant-Colonel 'Mad' Mike Calvert, veteran of the Chindit campaigns in Burma, 22 SAS was formed as a special counter-insurgency force. Three years later the re-formed SAS began their jungle patrols. They learned how to survive for weeks at a time in hostile terrain, often waist-deep in water, and under attack from wild animals, leeches and poisonous insects. That extraordinary campaign climaxed in a nightmarish two weeks in the Telok Anson swamp tracking the troops of the notorious 'Baby Killer', Ah Hoi, while the regiment's dreadful and unforgettable experiences in the Malayan jungle laid the foundations for the SAS's legendary survival skills. Soldier F SAS: Guerrillas in the Jungle is the sixth in a series of novels based on this extraordinary regiment a thrilling 'factoid' adventure about the most daring soldiers in military history: the SAS!

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