A selection of books recently
arrived at Suspect
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NIGHTMARE
USA
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Nightmare USA
Nightmare
USA explores the development of America's subterranean horror film
industry, spotlighting some of the wildest films imaginable from an era
unchecked by censorship or 'good taste.' Ranging from cult favourites
like I Drink Your Blood to stylish mind-benders like Messiah of Evil
and ultra-violent shockers like Don't Go in the House.
- This massive overview of the Horror genre's
development through the 1970s and 1980s features:
 In-depth EXCLUSIVE
interviews with 25
grindhouse movie makers, many of whom are discussing their work for the
first time ever in print, including David Durston (I Drink Your Blood),
Robert Endelson (Fight for Your Life), Frederick Friedel (Axe), Don
Jones (Schoolgirls in Chains); and Joseph Ellison (Don't Go in the
House).
- Over
175 individual films reviewed, with
full cast and crew credits compiled by world-renowned cinema archivist
Julian Grainger.
- Vast quantities
of previously unpublished
stills, posters, press-books, plus behind-the-scenes photographs from
the filmmakers' own collections.
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528
large-format pages
FAB Press Ltd $69.95
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Shock Festival
idwpublishing Proudly Presents... Shock
Festival
Created by Stephan Romano
Shock
Festival is a hilarious and gory tour through an imaginary cinematic
wasteland, where cash is king, and morals and values wind up on the
cutting room floor.
For
more information, go to http://www.shockfestival.net/
$
39.95
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Shock
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They
Came From Within
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THEY CAME FROM WITHIN
by Caelum Vatnsdal
A
HISTORY OF CANADIAN HORROR CINEMA.
Explores
five periods in Canadian horror history from the thirties through the
early sixties to the present. Moreover, the book attempts to retrieve
important Canadian figures from horror history - such as scream queen
Fay Wray and Val Lewton collaborator Mark Robson - as artists who made
a significant impact on the horror genre in the U.S.
"If
Canadian horror movies
were people at a house party, they'd be the graceless eccentric
slouching in a corner of the kitchen and drinking Extra Old Stock,
their sodden woolen socks piled at their heels. Who wouldn't want to
hang out with a person like that?" (pp 12-13)
Pages: 256 pages
published by: Arbeiter Ring Publishing (ARP)
ISBN: 1-894037-21-9
$
27.95
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Behind the Pink Curtain
--Behind
the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema
In 416
pages this volume is composed of 18 chapters that follow the
progression of pink films over time. The chapters are organized around
studios, and specific directors or groups of directors. Features 32
full-color pages of posters and stills appearing in the middle of the
book. Three detailed appendices and an index follow the main text.
Appendices include: every film referenced in the book by director -
a list of Japanese titles, cast and credits and DVD availability;
Bibliography, and a section on How to translate Japanese film titles.
Paperback.
$ 39.95
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Bad Mags
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BAD MAGS
by Tom
Brinkmann
The
flip side of popular culture as seen through magazines and tabloids,
BAD MAGS illuminates the darker recesses of pop lit.
BAD
MAGS collects the colourful and sometimes shocking news-stand
publications of the 1960s through to the 1980s that together provide a
fascinating—and occasionally biased, humorous and
exploitative—counterpoint to news events and the burgeoning
countercutlure scene. Chapters are divided into subject categories for
easy reference, such as sexploitation, Sharon Tate and Charles Manson,
Ed Wood Jr, outlaw bikers, the occult, the mob and punk.
Pages:
312
published by: Head Press
ISBN13: 9781900486651
$
23.95
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Book of the Dead
--The
Complete History of Zombie Cinema
Author: Jamie Russell
One of
cinema's most enduring monsters, the zombie has been terrifying
audiences around the world for decades.
Book of the Dead charts the ghoulish history of zombie cinema, from the
creature's origins in Haitian voodoo to its cinematic debut in 1932's
White Zombie, George A. Romero's quartet of 'Dead' movies (which
includes the two acknowledged classics of the genre, Night of the
Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead) and recent blockbuster hits like 28
Days Later, Shaun of the Dead and Land of the Dead.
Contains
hundreds of stills - including an incredible 64 pages of blood-drenched
full colour photos and rare international poster art.
Paperback. 978-1-903254-33-2 $34.95
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The
Dead Walk
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The Dead Walk
by Andy Black
& Steve Earles
Completely
revised, expanded & updated, this is a highly informative and
entertaining study of the diverse zombie film phenomenon. Included are
a visual feast of wide-ranging and often shocking films from the
monochrome epics of the 1930's & 1940's, the science-fiction
orientated zombie films of the 1950's, the graphic splatter films
& so-called "video nasties" of the 1980's before coming bang up
to date to reflect the re-emergence of the zombie genre again, only now
racing rather than shuffling towards box office domination anew.
The Dead
Walk provides a fascinating insight into films from across the globe as
well as devoting proper attention to individual filmmakers such as
George A. Romero & Lucio Fulci who have made the zombie genre
their own.
Black
/White with color photos - 288 pages
$ 34.95
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Men, Women, Chainsaws
--Carol
J. Clover
Do the
pleasures of horror movies really begin and end in sadism?
So the public discussion of film assumes, and so film theory
claims.
Carol Clover argues that these films are designed to align spectators
not with the male tormentor, but with the female tormented
--with the suffering, pain, and anguish that the "final girl," as
Clover calls the victim-hero, endures before rising, finally,
to vanquish her oppressor.
The book has found an avid readership from students of film theory to
major Hollywood filmmakers, and the figure of the final girl has
been
taken up by a wide range of artists, inspiring not just
filmmakers
but also musicians and poets.
Paperback,Princeton
University Press
276 pp. | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 19 halftone illus.
$27.09
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League of Extraordinary
Gentlemen Vol 3:
Century #1 -1910
by Alan Moore
Alan
Moore's familiar cast of Victorian literary characters enters the brave
new world of the 20th century, set against a backdrop of London, 1910,
twelve years after the failed Martian invasion. In the bowels of the
British Museum, Carnacki the ghost-finder is plagued by visions of a
shadowy occult order who are attempting to create something called a
Moonchild, while on London's dockside the most notorious serial
murderer of the previous century has returned to carry on his grisly
trade. Working for Mycroft Holmes' British Intelligence alongside a
rejuvenated Allan Quartermain, the reformed thief Anthony Raffles, and
the eternal warrior Orlando, Miss Murray is drawn into a brutal opera
acted out upon the waterfront by players that include the furiously
angry Pirate Jenny and the charismatic butcher known as Mac the Knife
The return of the League is not to be missed!
Art by
Kevin O'Neill
Mature Readers - 80 pages, soft cover, full color
$
9.95
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more Alan Moore & Watchmen items
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol 1 $17.95
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol 2 $17.95
The Mindscape of Alan Moore Dvd $ 24.95
Watchmen Complete Motion Comic Dvd $34.99
Watchmen: Tales Of The Black Freighter Dvd $22.49
Watchmen $20.95
From Hell $37.95
V For Vendetta $23.95
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