And They All Died Screaming

And They All Died Screaming
Author: Dan West
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2014-06-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1312498633

Return, once again, to The House That Dripped Gore with this equally horrific and hilarious sequel. An unspeakable evil is stirring in the crumbling ruins of the haunted Hull Family mansion in Dorchester Massachusetts, and inept parapsychologist, Stanley Matheson is, once again, taking the bait. Lured back to the house of horrors, Matheson soon discovers that the fate of the human race may now rest in his jittery, butter-fingered hands. The second book of the Stanley Matheson trilogy It's a race against time and good taste, as Matheson and his usual team of oddballs engage in a battle to the death with the demonic forces of the Seven Legions of Darkness. Can the mentally-defective ghost detective save the world from a deadly alien plague that could spread insanity across the globe-shaped, world thingy? Can he locate the ancient codex that will permit him to vanquish the evils of Yarlock the Great Deceiver? Can your heart stand the shocking, blood-drenched saga packed into this gripping, book-shaped object with words and pictures printed upon its pages?

Dan West's Web of Lies

Dan West's Web of Lies
Author: Dan West
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2014-09-02
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1312483431

A weird and wild collection of autobiographical short stories by writer and filmmaker Dan West (Monsturd and RetarDEAD, The House That Dripped Gore, And They All Died Screaming, Dan West's Homemade Embalming Fluid.) Can your heart stand these shocking tales of drug and alcohol abuse, sex, gore, bad filmmaking and bad film watching? Can your shriveled, black heart stand the horrors that reside within this literary freak show tent? The stories in this terrible tome are true! Only the fact have been changed to make them better!

Hosted Horror on Television

Hosted Horror on Television
Author: Bruce Markusen
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2021-07-16
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476684618

In October 1957, Screen Gems made numerous horror movies available to local television stations around the country as part of a package of films called Shock Theater. These movies became a huge sensation with TV viewers, as did the horror hosts who introduced the films and offered insight--often humorous--into the plots, the actors, and the directors. This history of hosted horror walks readers through the best TV horror films, beginning with the 1930s black-and-white classics from Universal Studios and ending with the grislier color films of the early 1970s. It also covers and explores the horror hosts who presented them, some of whom faded into obscurity while others became iconic within the genre.

Gus Van Sant

Gus Van Sant
Author: Vincent LoBrutto
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2010-06-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

This incisive book provides an in-depth critical and biographical study of the artistic range of film director Gus Van Sant. Arranged chronologically, Gus Van Sant: His Own Private Cinema provides a comprehensive overview of the life and art of this talented director, covering his mainstream, commercial, and avant-garde projects. More than a biography, the book examines Van Sant's incredibly diverse body of work, exploring the influence of his open homosexuality; of fine art, literature, and music; and of the range of cinema styles to which he has been exposed. Stressing Van Sant's wide-ranging content, genre, style, and cinematic presentation, author Vincent LoBrutto details the filmmaker's autobiographical tendencies and how he uses the film craft, literature, popular music, and fine arts to create his movies. The book dissects ways in which each of his films reflects Van Sant's sexual orientation, whether the individual film has a gay theme or not. Because of its importance to Van Sant's films, the book also offers a history of gay culture, past and present, covering its influence on art, music, theater, and dance, as well as community, activism, and prejudice.

Their Hearses

Their Hearses
Author: E.L. Giles
Publisher: Horrorsmith Publishing
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2024-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Years ago, John Berryman was responsible for the deaths of his two children and their nanny. But John Berryman was never seen or heard from again. He simply...vanished. Now, decades later, someone has finally purchased John Berryman's rambling old house. Marc Larose is no stranger to loss. He hopes to bring the decaying structure to its former glory, a warm place where his family can heal and begin anew, but if these walks could talk, they'd speed of death. Only, Marc isn't listening. Something vengeful still lingers in the shadows of the old willow, and it has its eyes set on Marc. It isn't long before he is caught in the tangles of mystery, fear, and deceit, where forces beyond his control are vying for his very soul. Will Marc figure out who...or what...is haunting his new home before he becomes its next victim?

Jarrettsville

Jarrettsville
Author: Cornelia Nixon
Publisher: Catapult
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2009-09-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1582436541

A novel of crime and passion in post–Civil War Maryland, based on a true story, from a “wonderfully talented” author (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times). Winner of the Michael Shaara Prize for Excellence in Civil War Fiction Based on true events from the author’s family history, Jarrettsville begins in 1869. Martha Jane Cairnes has just shot and killed her fiancé, Nicholas McComas, in front of his Union cavalry militia as they were celebrating the anniversary of the Confederate surrender at Appomattox. To find out why she murdered him, the story steps back to 1865, six days after the surrender, when President Lincoln has just been killed by John Wilkes Booth. Booth belongs to the same Rebel militia as Martha’s hot–headed brother, who has gone missing along with the assassin. Martha is loyal to her brother, but in love with Nicholas McComas, a local hero of the Union cause—and their affair is fraught with echoes of the bloody conflict just ended. Set six miles below the Mason–Dixon line, in a time when brothers fought on opposing sides and former slave–owners lived next door to abolitionists and freedmen, this is a compelling story rich with passion and tragedy, history and suspense.

Never Fear

Never Fear
Author: F. Paul Wilson
Publisher: Invoke Books
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2015-04-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0692408460

Tales of Horror by Ten Masters of Suspense Leave the lights on with this limited time collection of short stories about fear and how far folks will go to survive in a terrifying world. The Barrens by F. Paul Wilson. New York Times Bestselling Author. A cosmic horror tale in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Genuine pinelands lore painted with a Lovecraftian palette. Creighton reenters his old girlfriend's life, saying he's researching the myth of the Jersey Devil. But he has a much darker agenda. Control+Alt+Delete by Rachel Aukes. Amazon Bestselling Author. In the near-future where we are monitored every minute of every day, a law is passed that grants an Artificial Intelligence system the power to instantly "reform" anyone deemed a threat to society. The Agent by Michael Koogler. Up-and-Coming Author. What would you give to have it all? What would you offer up for fame and fortune? Would you give up your very soul? Would you give up even more? Andre Rossell is an aspiring horror writer with a problem. He hasn't published anything. His life is a waste. He's going nowhere. Until his agent calls... The Girl Next Door by E. McCarthy. New York Times Bestselling Author. In the old yellow fever wing of a female dorm in New Orleans, an empty sealed room holds nothing but a chair. Or does it? Student Sadie is determined to find out, at the risk of her own sanity... and her boyfriend's life. Taps by Patrick Freivald. Bram Stoker Award-Nominated Author. A series of mysterious tapping sounds leads Molly into a darkness from which she may never emerge. Forward Base Fourteen by Patrick Freivald. Bram Stoker Award-Nominated Author. One of the last survivors of an outpost on the alien world of New Phoenix, Sarah DeSouza fights on against the Takers, who kill, reanimate and control their victims. Funeral March of a Marionette by Lance Taubold. Award-Winning Author. Fourteen-year old Corey has always been picked on ... and worse by other kids and his stepfather. Through the magic of music Corey's nutcracker doll collection comes to life to do his bidding and to enact his revenge. Gris Gris by Kathy Love. USA Today Bestselling Author. Elizabeth visits Madame Lucrece Dumas, New Orleans' most powerful Voodoo priestess, certain the Creole voodooiene can conjure a spell to protect her from a terrifying curse. But Elizabeth soon discovers there is something stronger than Voodoo magic. Revenge. Where Billy Monasco Lay by Paul Mannering. Award-Winning Author. A band of outlaws making a run for Mexico wait by the Penasco River for the rest of their gang. Plagued by guilt after the horrific deaths of a bank full of innocent townsfolk, they meet God's justice in the form of a dead boy. Alabaster Nights by Elle J. Rossi. Up-and-Coming Author. A Vampire with a soul. A Huntress with a knife. In Nashville, Blood equals Power. Will one taste of Josie Hawk cost Keller everything? Snapped! by Richard Devin. USA Book Award Winner and Debut Author. No one knew where or when or how... it just happened. They Snapped. That's what people said. They Snapped. There wasn't any single sign, like you might expect there to be. No twitching or dying or convulsing. No outbreak of flu or some wide-spread contagious disease. Snap. They were human ... and then ... they were not.

Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing and Horror Cinema

Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing and Horror Cinema
Author: Mark A. Miller
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 563
Release: 2020-02-28
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 147663842X

From their first pairing in Hamlet (1948) to House of the Long Shadows (1983), British film stars Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing forged perhaps the most successful collaboration in horror film history. In its revised and expanded second edition, this volume examines their 22 movie team-ups, with critical commentary, complete cast and credits, production information, details on cinematography and make-up, exhibition history and box-office figures. A wealth of background about Hammer, Amicus and other production companies is provided, along with more than 100 illustrations. Lee and Cushing describe particulars of their partnership in original interviews. Exclusive interviews with Robert Bloch, Hazel Court and nearly fifty other actors, directors and others who worked on the Lee-Cushing films are included.

The Land of the Crooked Tree

The Land of the Crooked Tree
Author: U. P. Hedrick
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 1986
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780814318348

In 1874, the Hedrick family arrived in L 'Arbre croche or "crooked tree," as the Jesuit missionaries had called it one hundred and fifty years earlier. The wilderness of Little Traverse Bay had just been opened for homesteading, and the Hedricks joined a dozen other white families in the trading post of Little Traverse, situated in virgin forest. From the age of four until he left the area at eighteen, U. P. Hedrick saw the shabby trading post rum into the tidy village of Harbor Springs. In those years, mechanized logging replaced the homesteader's crosscut saw; the passenger pigeon disappeared; and the railroad arrived. Hedrick writes of his youth and shows himself to be a sharp and often witty observer of the little details of domestic life on the Michigan frontier. He expounds on cooking whitefish and blackberry rolypoly, on the farmer's "arsenal of axes," on pigs and their parts-both edible and useful, on wild and cultivated fruits, on trees, on kettles, and on Indians of the area. Lovers of Michigan's woods and fields, lakes and rivers; professional historians; and storytellers will find themselves delighted by Hedrick's account. The Land of the Crooked Tree is a Great Lakes Books reprint.