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The Haunted Bookshop speaks of the ghosts that inhabit all places of books - "the ghosts of all great literature." Christopher Morley's suspenseful 1919 novel continues the story of the bookseller from Parnassus on Wheels, Roger Mifflin, whose character underlines the wisdom and knowledge to be gained from literature and makes allusions and references to many famous works.
The premier monster story of English literature--a tale of science pursued to horrifying extremes. Frankenstein is a Gothic horror classic that tells the tale of ambitious young scientist Victor Frankenstein. Obsessed with the idea of creating life, Frankenstein assembles a freakish human-like monster. But when he animates it, he's shocked at the horror he's created.
According to the great horror writer H.P. Lovecraft "The Ghost Pirates... is a powerful account of a doomed and haunted ship on its last voyage." In this novel, William Hope Hodgson cleverly portrays the ghosts' gradual enslavement of the ship, without ever clearly revealing the ghosts themselves, only the absolute horror of their presence.
Christine is brought up by her itinerant musician father, whose death she mourns endlessly. She achieves a singing position in the Paris Opera line, where a mysterious voice teaches her to unleash her musical potential. The voice belongs to Erik, a deformed musical genius who lives in the opera house. As Christine's singing career takes off, her childhood friend Raoul begins to court her, and he and Erik fight jealously for Christine's hand.
Halloween has evolved from ethnic celebration to a blend of street festival, fright night, and vast commercial enterprise. In this colorful history, Nicholas Rogers takes a lively, entertaining look at the cultural origins and development of one of the most popular holidays of the year. Drawing on a fascinating array of sources, from classical history to Hollywood films, Rogers traces Halloween as it emerged from the Celtic festival of Samhain (summer's end), picked up elements of the Christian Hallowtide (All Saint's Day and All Soul's Day), arrived in North America as an Irish and Scottish festival, and evolved into an unofficial but large-scale holiday by the early 20th century.
The String of Pearls is the first installment of the Sweeney Todd penny part serial. It introduces the homicidal barber who became a staple of Victorian melodrama. In his barber shop on Fleet Street, Sweeney Todd murders his clients by tipping them down a chute and cleaning them off afterward with his straight razor. The bodies are then carried through an underground passage to Mrs. Lovett's pie shop, where they're made into pies.
The vampire novel that defined a genre by tapping into our deepest fears and darkest fantasies. A junior solicitor travels to Transylvania to meet with an important client, the mysterious Count Dracula. Ignoring the dire warnings of local townsfolk, he allows himself to be seduced by the count's courtly manners and erudite charm. Too late, the solicitor realizes that he is a prisoner of Castle Dracula, his guards a trio of voluptuous young women with sharp white teeth and a taste for blood. At once a Gothic reflection of the Victorian era and a timeless tale of sinister lust, Bram Stoker's Dracula has inspired countless adaptations—none with the same power to quicken the pulse as the original.
The Lady of the Shroud is another vampire story from the man who coined the term "undead." Rupert Saint Leger inherits his uncle's estate on condition that he live for a year in his uncle's castle in the Land of the Blue Mountains on the Dalmatian coast. One wet night, he is visited in his room in the castle by a pale woman wearing a wet shroud, seeking warmth. He lets her dry herself before his fire, and she flees before morning. She visits several more times, all at night, and they hardly speak, but he falls in love with her, despite thinking she is a vampire. He visits the local church and finds her in a glass-topped stone coffin in the crypt. Despite misgivings he declares his love, be she living or undead.
An award-winning scholar and author charts four hundred years of monsters and how they reflect the culture that created them. From the Protestant Reformation to contemporary horror films and fiction, Leo Braudy explores four major types: the monster from nature (King Kong), the created monster (Frankenstein), the monster from within (Mr. Hyde), and the monster from the past (Dracula). Drawing upon deep historical and literary research, Braudy discusses the lasting presence of fearful imaginings in an age of scientific progress, viewing the detective genre as a rational riposte to the irrational world of the monstrous.
Halloween is such a major celebration in Ireland that it is often called the Irish Christmas, a day of family reunions, meals, and fun. In America, many of our contemporary traditions are thought to have been brought over by Irish immigrants. But Northern Irish Halloween traditions today are nearly the opposite of American ones, with the emphasis on storytelling, family fireworks, and community bonfires rather than on pranks and peer-group activities.
A Nightmare on Elm Street. Halloween. Night of the Living Dead. These films have been indelibly stamped on moviegoers' psyches and are now considered seminal works of horror. Guiding readers along the twisted paths between audience, auteur, and cultural history, author Kendall R. Phillips reveals the macabre visions of these films' directors in Dark Directions: Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the Modern Horror Film. The first volume ever to address these three artists together, Dark Directions is a spine-tingling and thought-provoking study of the horror genre. Phillips illuminates some of the darkest minds in horror cinema.
Best known for his popular forays into detective fiction, Wilkie Collins' "The Haunted Hotel" blends elements of the classic whodunit with creepy overtones of Gothic horror. The tale delves into the mysterious disappearance of a newlywed aristocrat whose blushing bride may be harboring a dark secret.
America's Favorite Holidays explores how five of America's culturally important holidays--Christmas, Valentine's Day, Easter, Halloween, and Thanksgiving--came to be what they are today, seasonal and religious celebrations heavily influenced by modern popular culture. Deftly distilling information from a wide range of sources, Bruce David Forbes reveals often-surprising answers to questions about each holiday's traditions. Was Christmas always as commercialized as it is today? Is Thanksgiving a religious or secular holiday? When did we begin trick-or-treating on Halloween?
With its tales of benevolent and malicious specters, terrifying monsters, and unexplained phenomena, Halloween is the holiday most people associate with spooky stories. But do spirits remain hidden the rest of the year? In the rich storytelling customs of the commonwealth, the supernatural world is also connected with holidays such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine's Day, and Memorial Day. In Haunted Holidays, celebrated storytellers Roberta Simpson Brown and Lonnie E. Brown have assembled a hair-raising collection of paranormal tales for readers of all ages.
In the past hundred years, since the publication of Bram Stoker's infamous book, no literary figure has enjoyed a more horrific resiliency than Count Dracula. Now, in Blood Thirst: One Hundred Years of Vampire Fiction, Leonard Wolf brings together thirty tales in which vampires of all varieties make their ghastly presence felt--male and female, human and non-human, humorous and heroic--all of them kin to the dreadful bat. Here is a definitive collection for aficionados and novices alike, and whether readers find the vampires who inhabit these pages sympathetic or horrific, psychologically intriguing or spiritually repellent, morbidly seductive or comically absurd, Blood Thirst gives us all something to sink our teeth into.
The Haunted Bookshop speaks of the ghosts that inhabit all places of books - "the ghosts of all great literature." Christopher Morley's suspenseful 1919 novel continues the story of the bookseller from Parnassus on Wheels, Roger Mifflin, whose character underlines the wisdom and knowledge to be gained from literature and makes allusions and references to many famous works.
The premier monster story of English literature--a tale of science pursued to horrifying extremes. Frankenstein is a Gothic horror classic that tells the tale of ambitious young scientist Victor Frankenstein. Obsessed with the idea of creating life, Frankenstein assembles a freakish human-like monster. But when he animates it, he's shocked at the horror he's created.
According to the great horror writer H.P. Lovecraft "The Ghost Pirates... is a powerful account of a doomed and haunted ship on its last voyage." In this novel, William Hope Hodgson cleverly portrays the ghosts' gradual enslavement of the ship, without ever clearly revealing the ghosts themselves, only the absolute horror of their presence.
Christine is brought up by her itinerant musician father, whose death she mourns endlessly. She achieves a singing position in the Paris Opera line, where a mysterious voice teaches her to unleash her musical potential. The voice belongs to Erik, a deformed musical genius who lives in the opera house. As Christine's singing career takes off, her childhood friend Raoul begins to court her, and he and Erik fight jealously for Christine's hand.
Halloween has evolved from ethnic celebration to a blend of street festival, fright night, and vast commercial enterprise. In this colorful history, Nicholas Rogers takes a lively, entertaining look at the cultural origins and development of one of the most popular holidays of the year. Drawing on a fascinating array of sources, from classical history to Hollywood films, Rogers traces Halloween as it emerged from the Celtic festival of Samhain (summer's end), picked up elements of the Christian Hallowtide (All Saint's Day and All Soul's Day), arrived in North America as an Irish and Scottish festival, and evolved into an unofficial but large-scale holiday by the early 20th century.
The String of Pearls is the first installment of the Sweeney Todd penny part serial. It introduces the homicidal barber who became a staple of Victorian melodrama. In his barber shop on Fleet Street, Sweeney Todd murders his clients by tipping them down a chute and cleaning them off afterward with his straight razor. The bodies are then carried through an underground passage to Mrs. Lovett's pie shop, where they're made into pies.
The vampire novel that defined a genre by tapping into our deepest fears and darkest fantasies. A junior solicitor travels to Transylvania to meet with an important client, the mysterious Count Dracula. Ignoring the dire warnings of local townsfolk, he allows himself to be seduced by the count's courtly manners and erudite charm. Too late, the solicitor realizes that he is a prisoner of Castle Dracula, his guards a trio of voluptuous young women with sharp white teeth and a taste for blood. At once a Gothic reflection of the Victorian era and a timeless tale of sinister lust, Bram Stoker's Dracula has inspired countless adaptations—none with the same power to quicken the pulse as the original.
The Lady of the Shroud is another vampire story from the man who coined the term "undead." Rupert Saint Leger inherits his uncle's estate on condition that he live for a year in his uncle's castle in the Land of the Blue Mountains on the Dalmatian coast. One wet night, he is visited in his room in the castle by a pale woman wearing a wet shroud, seeking warmth. He lets her dry herself before his fire, and she flees before morning. She visits several more times, all at night, and they hardly speak, but he falls in love with her, despite thinking she is a vampire. He visits the local church and finds her in a glass-topped stone coffin in the crypt. Despite misgivings he declares his love, be she living or undead.
An award-winning scholar and author charts four hundred years of monsters and how they reflect the culture that created them. From the Protestant Reformation to contemporary horror films and fiction, Leo Braudy explores four major types: the monster from nature (King Kong), the created monster (Frankenstein), the monster from within (Mr. Hyde), and the monster from the past (Dracula). Drawing upon deep historical and literary research, Braudy discusses the lasting presence of fearful imaginings in an age of scientific progress, viewing the detective genre as a rational riposte to the irrational world of the monstrous.
Halloween is such a major celebration in Ireland that it is often called the Irish Christmas, a day of family reunions, meals, and fun. In America, many of our contemporary traditions are thought to have been brought over by Irish immigrants. But Northern Irish Halloween traditions today are nearly the opposite of American ones, with the emphasis on storytelling, family fireworks, and community bonfires rather than on pranks and peer-group activities.
A Nightmare on Elm Street. Halloween. Night of the Living Dead. These films have been indelibly stamped on moviegoers' psyches and are now considered seminal works of horror. Guiding readers along the twisted paths between audience, auteur, and cultural history, author Kendall R. Phillips reveals the macabre visions of these films' directors in Dark Directions: Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the Modern Horror Film. The first volume ever to address these three artists together, Dark Directions is a spine-tingling and thought-provoking study of the horror genre. Phillips illuminates some of the darkest minds in horror cinema.
Best known for his popular forays into detective fiction, Wilkie Collins' "The Haunted Hotel" blends elements of the classic whodunit with creepy overtones of Gothic horror. The tale delves into the mysterious disappearance of a newlywed aristocrat whose blushing bride may be harboring a dark secret.
America's Favorite Holidays explores how five of America's culturally important holidays--Christmas, Valentine's Day, Easter, Halloween, and Thanksgiving--came to be what they are today, seasonal and religious celebrations heavily influenced by modern popular culture. Deftly distilling information from a wide range of sources, Bruce David Forbes reveals often-surprising answers to questions about each holiday's traditions. Was Christmas always as commercialized as it is today? Is Thanksgiving a religious or secular holiday? When did we begin trick-or-treating on Halloween?
With its tales of benevolent and malicious specters, terrifying monsters, and unexplained phenomena, Halloween is the holiday most people associate with spooky stories. But do spirits remain hidden the rest of the year? In the rich storytelling customs of the commonwealth, the supernatural world is also connected with holidays such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine's Day, and Memorial Day. In Haunted Holidays, celebrated storytellers Roberta Simpson Brown and Lonnie E. Brown have assembled a hair-raising collection of paranormal tales for readers of all ages.
In the past hundred years, since the publication of Bram Stoker's infamous book, no literary figure has enjoyed a more horrific resiliency than Count Dracula. Now, in Blood Thirst: One Hundred Years of Vampire Fiction, Leonard Wolf brings together thirty tales in which vampires of all varieties make their ghastly presence felt--male and female, human and non-human, humorous and heroic--all of them kin to the dreadful bat. Here is a definitive collection for aficionados and novices alike, and whether readers find the vampires who inhabit these pages sympathetic or horrific, psychologically intriguing or spiritually repellent, morbidly seductive or comically absurd, Blood Thirst gives us all something to sink our teeth into.
The Haunted Bookshop speaks of the ghosts that inhabit all places of books - "the ghosts of all great literature." Christopher Morley's suspenseful 1919 novel continues the story of the bookseller from Parnassus on Wheels, Roger Mifflin, whose character underlines the wisdom and knowledge to be gained from literature and makes allusions and references to many famous works.
The premier monster story of English literature--a tale of science pursued to horrifying extremes. Frankenstein is a Gothic horror classic that tells the tale of ambitious young scientist Victor Frankenstein. Obsessed with the idea of creating life, Frankenstein assembles a freakish human-like monster. But when he animates it, he's shocked at the horror he's created.
According to the great horror writer H.P. Lovecraft "The Ghost Pirates... is a powerful account of a doomed and haunted ship on its last voyage." In this novel, William Hope Hodgson cleverly portrays the ghosts' gradual enslavement of the ship, without ever clearly revealing the ghosts themselves, only the absolute horror of their presence.
Christine is brought up by her itinerant musician father, whose death she mourns endlessly. She achieves a singing position in the Paris Opera line, where a mysterious voice teaches her to unleash her musical potential. The voice belongs to Erik, a deformed musical genius who lives in the opera house. As Christine's singing career takes off, her childhood friend Raoul begins to court her, and he and Erik fight jealously for Christine's hand.
2017 | 1hr 32min | public performance rights | Closed captions available | R
Academy Award winner Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara star as a young couple who -- after being separated by loss -- discover an eternal connection and a love that is infinite.
A GHOST STORY was nominated for the John Cassavetes Award at the 2017 Film Independent Spirit Awards. Nominated for a Best of Next! Award at the Sundance Film Festival.
2020 | 1hr 23min | public performance rights | Closed captions available
Eric Brady, a new hotel employee stumbles upon an open secret: one of the rooms is haunted. Eric decides it’s in both his and the hotel’s best interest to help remove the ghost. However after meeting the ghost he finds a kindred spirit, falls in love, and a new agenda starts forming.
2024 | 1hr 30min | public performance rights | Closed captions available | NR
A couple opens a camp on a haunted site, connecting them to a chilling past that unravels a 20-year-old mystery involving a missing girl and a brutal crime.
2014 | 32min | Closed captions available | NR
The 19th century produced a radically different kind of hero: the spooky and fantastical Dracula. After observing the structural complexity of this novel, you’ll examine the hidden fears and repressed sensuality that led Bram Stoker to create this vampire and his seductive brides. Then ponder Dracula’s lasting effect on world literature.
2023 | 1hr 28min | Public Performance Rights | Closed captions available | PG
An American family moves in to Canterville Chase, a stately countryside mansion that has been haunted by the ghost Sir Simon De Canterville for 300 years. Animated.
1999 | 7hr 32min | Closed captions available | NR
Go on tour to some of the spookiest and unexpected haunted places in cities like San Antonio, Washington, D.C. and London. Each program is based on historical ghost stories, meticulously researched, with interviews of historians and prominent folklorists. TV Series.
2022
1hr 23min | public performance rights | Closed captions available | NR
Two lifelong buddies must unravel the circumstances that led to a corpse in their bathtub in the wake of a Halloween party.
2015 | 6hr 11min | Closed captions available
Monsters. Ghosts. Zombies. From horror movies to Halloween, we see the creatures that go bump in the night everywhere, but where did they come from? The primal fears of our ancestors fueled the stories that lived on through legend, page, and screen. Join us as we peer into the histories of some of the most prevalent creatures in pop culture, including vampires, werewolves, zombies, and ghosts. Come and meet the Monsters Among Us, if you dare. TV Series.
2015 | 1hr 37min | public performance rights | Closed captions available
Ten stories from horror's top directors. Ghosts, ghouls, monsters, and the devil delight in terrorizing unsuspecting residents of a suburban neighborhood on Halloween night.
2012 | 1hr 32min | public performance rights | Closed captions available | PG
Norman Babcock finds his paranormal abilities pushed to their limits to take on zombies and ghosts, and save his town from a centuries-old curse.
2021 | 2hr 07min | public performance rights | Closed captions available | NR
This definitive full length documentary charts the making of the record setting comedy that changed the film industry forever. Interviews with Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson and more accompany never-before-seen archive material.
2023 | 1hr 21min | public performance rights | Closed captions available | NR
Heather Henson presents this collection of spooky and kooky short puppetry films that are sure to get any… body… into the Halloween spirit!
The Narrative of Victor Karloch, Director: Kevin McTurk
Monster, Director: Cecilia Gläsker
Moonfishing, Director: David Michael Friend
Goodnight Shadow, Director: Myra Su
Junk Palace, Director: Lyon Forrest Hill
Ichabod, Sketches from Sleepy Hollow, Director: Hobey Ford
Harker, Director: Tony Giordano
1921 | 1hr 47min | Closed captions available | NR
The last person to die on New Year’s Eve before the clock strikes twelve is doomed to take the reins of Death’s chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year. So says the legend that drives THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE (Körkarlen), directed by the father of Swedish cinema, Victor Sjöström.
2017 | 1hr 28min | public performance rights | Closed captions available | NR
A mind-blowing documentary about how haunted houses for Halloween have spawned a controversial subculture of full-contact terror simulations. Go inside the most notorious extreme haunt in the world and ask yourself - how far is too far?
2008 | 43min | Closed captions available | TV-PG
Halloween has become a six billion dollar industry. Go behind-the-scenes at Knott's Berry Farm's 35th annual Halloween Haunt. Learn how to apply Hollywood grade monster make-up, watch scary latex masks cranked out by the thousands.
2022 | 30min | Closed captions available | NR
Visit two notorious locales with a reputation for strange occurrences and unique purposes: Stonehenge and the "haunted" house built by American heiress Sarah Winchester.
2017 | 1hr 32min | public performance rights | Closed captions available | R
Academy Award winner Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara star as a young couple who -- after being separated by loss -- discover an eternal connection and a love that is infinite.
A GHOST STORY was nominated for the John Cassavetes Award at the 2017 Film Independent Spirit Awards. Nominated for a Best of Next! Award at the Sundance Film Festival.
2020 | 1hr 23min | public performance rights | Closed captions available
Eric Brady, a new hotel employee stumbles upon an open secret: one of the rooms is haunted. Eric decides it’s in both his and the hotel’s best interest to help remove the ghost. However after meeting the ghost he finds a kindred spirit, falls in love, and a new agenda starts forming.
2024 | 1hr 30min | public performance rights | Closed captions available | NR
A couple opens a camp on a haunted site, connecting them to a chilling past that unravels a 20-year-old mystery involving a missing girl and a brutal crime.
2014 | 32min | Closed captions available | NR
The 19th century produced a radically different kind of hero: the spooky and fantastical Dracula. After observing the structural complexity of this novel, you’ll examine the hidden fears and repressed sensuality that led Bram Stoker to create this vampire and his seductive brides. Then ponder Dracula’s lasting effect on world literature.
2023 | 1hr 28min | Public Performance Rights | Closed captions available | PG
An American family moves in to Canterville Chase, a stately countryside mansion that has been haunted by the ghost Sir Simon De Canterville for 300 years. Animated.
1999 | 7hr 32min | Closed captions available | NR
Go on tour to some of the spookiest and unexpected haunted places in cities like San Antonio, Washington, D.C. and London. Each program is based on historical ghost stories, meticulously researched, with interviews of historians and prominent folklorists. TV Series.
2022
1hr 23min | public performance rights | Closed captions available | NR
Two lifelong buddies must unravel the circumstances that led to a corpse in their bathtub in the wake of a Halloween party.
2015 | 6hr 11min | Closed captions available
Monsters. Ghosts. Zombies. From horror movies to Halloween, we see the creatures that go bump in the night everywhere, but where did they come from? The primal fears of our ancestors fueled the stories that lived on through legend, page, and screen. Join us as we peer into the histories of some of the most prevalent creatures in pop culture, including vampires, werewolves, zombies, and ghosts. Come and meet the Monsters Among Us, if you dare. TV Series.
2015 | 1hr 37min | public performance rights | Closed captions available
Ten stories from horror's top directors. Ghosts, ghouls, monsters, and the devil delight in terrorizing unsuspecting residents of a suburban neighborhood on Halloween night.
2012 | 1hr 32min | public performance rights | Closed captions available | PG
Norman Babcock finds his paranormal abilities pushed to their limits to take on zombies and ghosts, and save his town from a centuries-old curse.
2021 | 2hr 07min | public performance rights | Closed captions available | NR
This definitive full length documentary charts the making of the record setting comedy that changed the film industry forever. Interviews with Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson and more accompany never-before-seen archive material.
2023 | 1hr 21min | public performance rights | Closed captions available | NR
Heather Henson presents this collection of spooky and kooky short puppetry films that are sure to get any… body… into the Halloween spirit!
The Narrative of Victor Karloch, Director: Kevin McTurk
Monster, Director: Cecilia Gläsker
Moonfishing, Director: David Michael Friend
Goodnight Shadow, Director: Myra Su
Junk Palace, Director: Lyon Forrest Hill
Ichabod, Sketches from Sleepy Hollow, Director: Hobey Ford
Harker, Director: Tony Giordano
1921 | 1hr 47min | Closed captions available | NR
The last person to die on New Year’s Eve before the clock strikes twelve is doomed to take the reins of Death’s chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year. So says the legend that drives THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE (Körkarlen), directed by the father of Swedish cinema, Victor Sjöström.
2017 | 1hr 28min | public performance rights | Closed captions available | NR
A mind-blowing documentary about how haunted houses for Halloween have spawned a controversial subculture of full-contact terror simulations. Go inside the most notorious extreme haunt in the world and ask yourself - how far is too far?
2008 | 43min | Closed captions available | TV-PG
Halloween has become a six billion dollar industry. Go behind-the-scenes at Knott's Berry Farm's 35th annual Halloween Haunt. Learn how to apply Hollywood grade monster make-up, watch scary latex masks cranked out by the thousands.
2022 | 30min | Closed captions available | NR
Visit two notorious locales with a reputation for strange occurrences and unique purposes: Stonehenge and the "haunted" house built by American heiress Sarah Winchester.
2017 | 1hr 32min | public performance rights | Closed captions available | R
Academy Award winner Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara star as a young couple who -- after being separated by loss -- discover an eternal connection and a love that is infinite.
A GHOST STORY was nominated for the John Cassavetes Award at the 2017 Film Independent Spirit Awards. Nominated for a Best of Next! Award at the Sundance Film Festival.
2020 | 1hr 23min | public performance rights | Closed captions available
Eric Brady, a new hotel employee stumbles upon an open secret: one of the rooms is haunted. Eric decides it’s in both his and the hotel’s best interest to help remove the ghost. However after meeting the ghost he finds a kindred spirit, falls in love, and a new agenda starts forming.
2024 | 1hr 30min | public performance rights | Closed captions available | NR
A couple opens a camp on a haunted site, connecting them to a chilling past that unravels a 20-year-old mystery involving a missing girl and a brutal crime.
2014 | 32min | Closed captions available | NR
The 19th century produced a radically different kind of hero: the spooky and fantastical Dracula. After observing the structural complexity of this novel, you’ll examine the hidden fears and repressed sensuality that led Bram Stoker to create this vampire and his seductive brides. Then ponder Dracula’s lasting effect on world literature.
For more movie options, check out the Fright Fest category of streaming video available from Kanopy!
Even on All Hallows' Eve, ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties stand no chance against intrepid heroes and explorers armed with the latest steam-driven technology...or do they? Will phantoms of phlogiston fall before the stalwarts of steam, or will they be bold enough to best the brass and glass?
When Jack Skellington's faithful pet Zero gets lost, the ghost pup must get the help of the residents of Christmas Town to find his way back. With Halloween plans on hold while Jack mounts a search, will they be reunited in time to save both holidays? Explore the magical realms of Halloween Town and Christmas Town through the eyes of Zero as he tries to find his way home in an unfamiliar world. This graphic novel includes the FCBD issue #0 plus #1-4 as well as extra bonus material!
Introducing the first eight volumes of the fan-favorite, New York Times Best Seller series collected into one massive paperback collection! Collects The Walking Dead #1-48. In a world ruled by the dead, we are finally forced to finally start living.
In this full-color collection of stories, attorneys Alanna Wolff and Jeff Byrd represent a woman who has come back from the dead to bring a wrongful death suit against the husband who killed her. Other clients include the Medusa of Greek mythology, a Wiccan who is offended by Halloween, and a fifth-generation vampire drawn by the lure of Hollywood.
When Harley Quinn crashes a Halloween Party at the Gotham City Museum, Batman and Nightwing must find a way to defeat her . . . Tricks and Treats! Will the heroes save the day? Find out in this action-packed chapter book for young readers.
When a crazed tour guide raises the spectral remains of the galleon that brought the Necronomicon to America, Ash finally meets the one thing he hates more than Deadites - ghost pirates! It's chainsaws and boomsticks against cutlasses and muskets, and if Blackbeard’s men can't have their treasure, the Promised One's head will have to do!
Delia, a young girl with blossoming and uncontrollable supernatural powers, accidentally unleashes her powers in a school. A danger to herself and others, she draws the attention of Phoebe, Piper, and Paige - three witches with experience managing innate abilities! With their help, Delia begins to make a new life for herself... but magic has a way of getting out of control, and it's only a matter of time before this incredibly powerful novice draws the unwanted attention of sinister forces!
Gather up your wooden stakes, your blood-covered hatchets, and all the skeletons in the darkest depths of your closet, and prepare for a horrifying adventure into the darkest corners of comics history. Dark Horse Comics further corners the market on high quality horror storytelling with one of the most anticipated releases of the decade, a edition archive collection of legendary Creepy Magazine.
Slithering upon the heels of Dark Horse's archive collections of the seminal horror comics magazine Creepy comes its terror-filled cousin publication Eerie! Dark Horse Comics has taken great, gruesome care in presenting this groundbreaking material to readers who have been waiting decades to get their claws on it. For fans of spectacular spookiness, mind-bending sci-fi, and astonishing artwork, the New York Times bestseller Eerie Archives is a must-have.
One is a decrepit mob of gurgling, ravenous fiends...and the other is a zombie outbreak. When there is no more room in Hell, the undead shall take over Comic-Con! A crew of feuding best friends find themselves trapped inside America's largest comic convention transformed into a seething cauldron of zombies. Is a horde of starving brain-eaters any match against reflexes battle-hardened by video games, nerves tested by horror flicks, and courage crystallized by comic books? Find out as an unlikely band of nerds use their genre savvy to survive in Fanboys vs. Zombies!
Halloween Classics presents five scary tales for the holiday, each with an EC-style introduction by famed horror author Mort Castle. Featured are Nathaniel Hawthorne's “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, Arthur Conan Doyle's mummy tale "Lot No. 249", Mark Twain's "A Curious Dream", and H.P. Lovecraft's "Cool Air". Plus, a comics adaptation of the great silent film "The Cabinet of Dr. Calligari", illustrated by Matt Howarth, with a terrifying cover by Simon Gane.
Murdered by a monster on Halloween night, Solomon Hitch was resurrected to fight back against the darkness as Halloween Man! Superdeformed includes some of the best loved tales from the popular webcomic. Meet Solomon Hitch, the Halloween Man himself – a misunderstood monster with the power of the horror movie sequel, a heart of gold, and a taste for living flesh – and his lady love Lucy Chaplin, the world’s most glamorous mad scientist. With his friends by his side, he just might smash evil, save the world – and maybe even save his soul!
A rocking, shocking, double dose of monster mayhem! Featuring rockabilly ghouls, rivers of slime, and killer faeries!
This spooky trilogy reveals that, on Halloween, it's always darkest before the dawn. In Halloween, immerse yourself in the great book of the night. And if, at a street corner, you meet a ghost, take a walk with him. You may just recognize him — and if melancholy torments you — he could be the one to make you smile again. Then, in The Story of Joe, a solitary boy finds refuge with the creatures of the night. But consumed by his imagination, he loses touch with reality and undergoes a strange transformation… Finally, in The Book of Jack, braving a haunted house, young Jack discovers a mysterious book, a book that tells the story of his life. But what dark twists could others write into the blank pages that remain? Follow these young characters in stories that span from the dusk of childhood to the dawn of adolescence, as they explore the darkness and light in us all.
My family has failed. For uncounted millennia, we have guarded the world from monsters. Now a cataclysm has occurred and all the vile creatures captured since the dawn of history have escaped, and now I am alone. My destiny is sealed, my mission is clear. I am William Warlock... I Hunt Monsters!
Halloween has always been and always will be about one thing: getting the best CANDY. And, some fiendish friends excel at tricks if they don't get the right treats. When these gremlins receive a frickin' apple at their first house of the night, they plan deadly revenge on the offending fruit-favoring old-timer. Join the misadventures of a group of particularly disturbing trick-or-treaters as they go about their macabre business on Halloween night. Believing that the apples they received at their first house of the night are the cause of the bad candy they've been receiving, the kids plot deadly revenge on the old lady who handed out the cursed fruit.
When criminal investigations take a weird turn, the officers of the Chicago Police Department call in Harry Dresden! A wizard and private investigator with formidable yet unrefined skills, the young Dresden is more than capable of tracking down and facing the perps, whether they be black magic practitioners, blood-hungry werewolves, or worse! This first volume of The Dresden Files Omnibus collects three complete comic book story arcs, including "Welcome to the Jungle", "Storm Front" and "Fool Moon."
ecades after a zombie invasion has made humans an endangered species, the city of New Detroit is under siege. The people in charge have banned music, as the undead are attracted to sound, and have tried to rid the world of evidence that the greatest band in history have ever existed. Unwilling to live this way and take the leadership at their word, a group of teenagers set out on a dangerous trip to find KISS! Collects issues #1-#5 of KISS: ZOMBIES.
Start your Plants vs. Zombies adventures from the very beginning with this Zomnibus collecting the first three original Plants vs. Zombies graphic novels! The confusing-yet-brilliant inventor known as Crazy Dave helps his niece, Patrice, and young adventurer Nate Timely fend off several fun-dead neighborhood invasions. Follow Crazy Dave and his dedicated group of gifted plants, as they confront Zomboss and his hordes of clueless zombies! Then, are Patrice and Nate ready to investigate on their own? Venture to a strange college campus to keep the streets safe from zombies and join forces with the mysterious Anti-Bully Squad!
veryone knows that Poe created the detective genre, but did you know he was a detective himself? Finally the secret can be revealed for the first time! Enter the world of POE and follow the famous author of darkness as he tracks the killer of his brother's friend. Supernatural adventure for fans of books like HELLBOY! "Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before." --Edgar Allan Poe
At the end of the 19th Century two men, Edgar Poe and Howard Phillips, will find themselves in the middle of mysterious adventures as Investigators of Paranormal Affairs. The two will discover mysterious coins that have the power to revive an emperor and his demonic army. It is up to Poe and Phillips to secure these coins lest they fall into the wrong hands and usher in the end of the world!
The Stories of Edgar Allan Poe is a brilliant collection of some of his best-known stories including The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Fall of the House of Usher. Also included in this collection are The Masque of the Red Death, and the most famous of all his poems: The Raven. Best read in a dimly-lit room with the curtains drawn, Poe's brilliant works come to life in darkly thrilling ways in this Manga Classics adaptation.
In this tale, the Midnight Witch spends a whole cycle at her home world – Lux Magicae. Without a single clue of her mother’s whereabouts, Leona comes from a lifetime search between different timelines. Her faith betrays her beliefs, and she’s definitely ready to leave all her hopes behind. But in the middle of this storm, the Midnight Witch seems to finally have a glimpse of the sunlight in the halls of Lux Triumphans.
We're celebrating Halloween in Rolled & Told! Writers E.L. Thomas and Anne Toole go grim and give you all the shambling, undead horror you and your group of wild and ready role-players can handle! In our full adventure, a strange malady grips a small farming village; the last thing they need is a horde of undead rising from all around them. Your player characters will get to literally reap what has been sown!
Everybody's favorite sorceress, Sabrina is just your average teenage girl - with a magical little secret! Raised by her witch aunts Hilda and Zelda, she struggles to keep her secret from her high school peers, and balance her non-magical boyfriend with her after school adventures at Charm School in the Magical Realm!
“A Monstrous Halloween”: When Sabrina refuses to go to her family get-together to attend a mortal Halloween party, she’s transformed into a creature more ridiculous than any costume she could possibly wear!
Even on All Hallows' Eve, ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties stand no chance against intrepid heroes and explorers armed with the latest steam-driven technology...or do they? Will phantoms of phlogiston fall before the stalwarts of steam, or will they be bold enough to best the brass and glass?
When Jack Skellington's faithful pet Zero gets lost, the ghost pup must get the help of the residents of Christmas Town to find his way back. With Halloween plans on hold while Jack mounts a search, will they be reunited in time to save both holidays? Explore the magical realms of Halloween Town and Christmas Town through the eyes of Zero as he tries to find his way home in an unfamiliar world. This graphic novel includes the FCBD issue #0 plus #1-4 as well as extra bonus material!
Introducing the first eight volumes of the fan-favorite, New York Times Best Seller series collected into one massive paperback collection! Collects The Walking Dead #1-48. In a world ruled by the dead, we are finally forced to finally start living.
In this full-color collection of stories, attorneys Alanna Wolff and Jeff Byrd represent a woman who has come back from the dead to bring a wrongful death suit against the husband who killed her. Other clients include the Medusa of Greek mythology, a Wiccan who is offended by Halloween, and a fifth-generation vampire drawn by the lure of Hollywood.
When Harley Quinn crashes a Halloween Party at the Gotham City Museum, Batman and Nightwing must find a way to defeat her . . . Tricks and Treats! Will the heroes save the day? Find out in this action-packed chapter book for young readers.
When a crazed tour guide raises the spectral remains of the galleon that brought the Necronomicon to America, Ash finally meets the one thing he hates more than Deadites - ghost pirates! It's chainsaws and boomsticks against cutlasses and muskets, and if Blackbeard’s men can't have their treasure, the Promised One's head will have to do!
Delia, a young girl with blossoming and uncontrollable supernatural powers, accidentally unleashes her powers in a school. A danger to herself and others, she draws the attention of Phoebe, Piper, and Paige - three witches with experience managing innate abilities! With their help, Delia begins to make a new life for herself... but magic has a way of getting out of control, and it's only a matter of time before this incredibly powerful novice draws the unwanted attention of sinister forces!
Gather up your wooden stakes, your blood-covered hatchets, and all the skeletons in the darkest depths of your closet, and prepare for a horrifying adventure into the darkest corners of comics history. Dark Horse Comics further corners the market on high quality horror storytelling with one of the most anticipated releases of the decade, a edition archive collection of legendary Creepy Magazine.
Slithering upon the heels of Dark Horse's archive collections of the seminal horror comics magazine Creepy comes its terror-filled cousin publication Eerie! Dark Horse Comics has taken great, gruesome care in presenting this groundbreaking material to readers who have been waiting decades to get their claws on it. For fans of spectacular spookiness, mind-bending sci-fi, and astonishing artwork, the New York Times bestseller Eerie Archives is a must-have.
One is a decrepit mob of gurgling, ravenous fiends...and the other is a zombie outbreak. When there is no more room in Hell, the undead shall take over Comic-Con! A crew of feuding best friends find themselves trapped inside America's largest comic convention transformed into a seething cauldron of zombies. Is a horde of starving brain-eaters any match against reflexes battle-hardened by video games, nerves tested by horror flicks, and courage crystallized by comic books? Find out as an unlikely band of nerds use their genre savvy to survive in Fanboys vs. Zombies!
Halloween Classics presents five scary tales for the holiday, each with an EC-style introduction by famed horror author Mort Castle. Featured are Nathaniel Hawthorne's “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, Arthur Conan Doyle's mummy tale "Lot No. 249", Mark Twain's "A Curious Dream", and H.P. Lovecraft's "Cool Air". Plus, a comics adaptation of the great silent film "The Cabinet of Dr. Calligari", illustrated by Matt Howarth, with a terrifying cover by Simon Gane.
Murdered by a monster on Halloween night, Solomon Hitch was resurrected to fight back against the darkness as Halloween Man! Superdeformed includes some of the best loved tales from the popular webcomic. Meet Solomon Hitch, the Halloween Man himself – a misunderstood monster with the power of the horror movie sequel, a heart of gold, and a taste for living flesh – and his lady love Lucy Chaplin, the world’s most glamorous mad scientist. With his friends by his side, he just might smash evil, save the world – and maybe even save his soul!
A rocking, shocking, double dose of monster mayhem! Featuring rockabilly ghouls, rivers of slime, and killer faeries!
This spooky trilogy reveals that, on Halloween, it's always darkest before the dawn. In Halloween, immerse yourself in the great book of the night. And if, at a street corner, you meet a ghost, take a walk with him. You may just recognize him — and if melancholy torments you — he could be the one to make you smile again. Then, in The Story of Joe, a solitary boy finds refuge with the creatures of the night. But consumed by his imagination, he loses touch with reality and undergoes a strange transformation… Finally, in The Book of Jack, braving a haunted house, young Jack discovers a mysterious book, a book that tells the story of his life. But what dark twists could others write into the blank pages that remain? Follow these young characters in stories that span from the dusk of childhood to the dawn of adolescence, as they explore the darkness and light in us all.
My family has failed. For uncounted millennia, we have guarded the world from monsters. Now a cataclysm has occurred and all the vile creatures captured since the dawn of history have escaped, and now I am alone. My destiny is sealed, my mission is clear. I am William Warlock... I Hunt Monsters!
Halloween has always been and always will be about one thing: getting the best CANDY. And, some fiendish friends excel at tricks if they don't get the right treats. When these gremlins receive a frickin' apple at their first house of the night, they plan deadly revenge on the offending fruit-favoring old-timer. Join the misadventures of a group of particularly disturbing trick-or-treaters as they go about their macabre business on Halloween night. Believing that the apples they received at their first house of the night are the cause of the bad candy they've been receiving, the kids plot deadly revenge on the old lady who handed out the cursed fruit.
When criminal investigations take a weird turn, the officers of the Chicago Police Department call in Harry Dresden! A wizard and private investigator with formidable yet unrefined skills, the young Dresden is more than capable of tracking down and facing the perps, whether they be black magic practitioners, blood-hungry werewolves, or worse! This first volume of The Dresden Files Omnibus collects three complete comic book story arcs, including "Welcome to the Jungle", "Storm Front" and "Fool Moon."
ecades after a zombie invasion has made humans an endangered species, the city of New Detroit is under siege. The people in charge have banned music, as the undead are attracted to sound, and have tried to rid the world of evidence that the greatest band in history have ever existed. Unwilling to live this way and take the leadership at their word, a group of teenagers set out on a dangerous trip to find KISS! Collects issues #1-#5 of KISS: ZOMBIES.
Start your Plants vs. Zombies adventures from the very beginning with this Zomnibus collecting the first three original Plants vs. Zombies graphic novels! The confusing-yet-brilliant inventor known as Crazy Dave helps his niece, Patrice, and young adventurer Nate Timely fend off several fun-dead neighborhood invasions. Follow Crazy Dave and his dedicated group of gifted plants, as they confront Zomboss and his hordes of clueless zombies! Then, are Patrice and Nate ready to investigate on their own? Venture to a strange college campus to keep the streets safe from zombies and join forces with the mysterious Anti-Bully Squad!
veryone knows that Poe created the detective genre, but did you know he was a detective himself? Finally the secret can be revealed for the first time! Enter the world of POE and follow the famous author of darkness as he tracks the killer of his brother's friend. Supernatural adventure for fans of books like HELLBOY! "Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before." --Edgar Allan Poe
At the end of the 19th Century two men, Edgar Poe and Howard Phillips, will find themselves in the middle of mysterious adventures as Investigators of Paranormal Affairs. The two will discover mysterious coins that have the power to revive an emperor and his demonic army. It is up to Poe and Phillips to secure these coins lest they fall into the wrong hands and usher in the end of the world!
The Stories of Edgar Allan Poe is a brilliant collection of some of his best-known stories including The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Fall of the House of Usher. Also included in this collection are The Masque of the Red Death, and the most famous of all his poems: The Raven. Best read in a dimly-lit room with the curtains drawn, Poe's brilliant works come to life in darkly thrilling ways in this Manga Classics adaptation.
In this tale, the Midnight Witch spends a whole cycle at her home world – Lux Magicae. Without a single clue of her mother’s whereabouts, Leona comes from a lifetime search between different timelines. Her faith betrays her beliefs, and she’s definitely ready to leave all her hopes behind. But in the middle of this storm, the Midnight Witch seems to finally have a glimpse of the sunlight in the halls of Lux Triumphans.
We're celebrating Halloween in Rolled & Told! Writers E.L. Thomas and Anne Toole go grim and give you all the shambling, undead horror you and your group of wild and ready role-players can handle! In our full adventure, a strange malady grips a small farming village; the last thing they need is a horde of undead rising from all around them. Your player characters will get to literally reap what has been sown!
Everybody's favorite sorceress, Sabrina is just your average teenage girl - with a magical little secret! Raised by her witch aunts Hilda and Zelda, she struggles to keep her secret from her high school peers, and balance her non-magical boyfriend with her after school adventures at Charm School in the Magical Realm!
“A Monstrous Halloween”: When Sabrina refuses to go to her family get-together to attend a mortal Halloween party, she’s transformed into a creature more ridiculous than any costume she could possibly wear!
Even on All Hallows' Eve, ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties stand no chance against intrepid heroes and explorers armed with the latest steam-driven technology...or do they? Will phantoms of phlogiston fall before the stalwarts of steam, or will they be bold enough to best the brass and glass?
When Jack Skellington's faithful pet Zero gets lost, the ghost pup must get the help of the residents of Christmas Town to find his way back. With Halloween plans on hold while Jack mounts a search, will they be reunited in time to save both holidays? Explore the magical realms of Halloween Town and Christmas Town through the eyes of Zero as he tries to find his way home in an unfamiliar world. This graphic novel includes the FCBD issue #0 plus #1-4 as well as extra bonus material!
Introducing the first eight volumes of the fan-favorite, New York Times Best Seller series collected into one massive paperback collection! Collects The Walking Dead #1-48. In a world ruled by the dead, we are finally forced to finally start living.
In this full-color collection of stories, attorneys Alanna Wolff and Jeff Byrd represent a woman who has come back from the dead to bring a wrongful death suit against the husband who killed her. Other clients include the Medusa of Greek mythology, a Wiccan who is offended by Halloween, and a fifth-generation vampire drawn by the lure of Hollywood.