Universal Horror

The book tells the stories and explains the legends behind the some of the greatest movie monsters in history. Charting their history from myths and fables told over the centuries, the author guides the reader from the past to the present day, as the Universal Monsters prepare to return to the silver screen for their biggest adventures yet. The classic Universal Monsters have been scaring and delighting audiences for decades. But did you know that these maniacal creeps have been frightening people throughout history? Find out about all the old world folk stories, legends and myths before ...

On April 22, 1948, noted horror film star Lon Chaney, Jr. (THE WOLF MAN) tries to commit suicide. While his life hangs in the balance, his wife, attorney, and agent attempt damage control. But the question remains: why would one of the more successful actors in Hollywood history--aged only 42--try to take his own life? Author and lifelong Chaney fan Bill Fleck believes he has the answer. CHANEY'S BABY tells this heartbreaking story.

Jeremy works at the Video Hut in Nevada, Iowa. It's a small town in the center of the state - the first a in Nevada pronounced ay. This is the late 1990s, and even if the Hollywood Video in Ames poses an existential threat to Video Hut, there are still regular customers, a rush in the late afternoon. It's good enough for Jeremy: It's a job, quiet and predictable, and it gets him out of the house, where he lives with his dad and where they both try to avoid missing Mom, who died six years ago in a car wreck.

The author of the New York Times best seller You Are the Placebo, as well as Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself and Evolve Your Brain, draws on research conducted at his advanced workshops since 2012 to explore how common people are doing the uncommon to transform themselves and their lives. Becoming Supernatural marries the some of the most profound scientific information with ancient wisdom to show how people like you and me can experience a more mystical life.

The FORGOTTEN HORRORS series of film-commentary books taps author Michael H. Price's backlog of monographs, magazine columns and articles, and film-festival curatorial notes for a whopping 360-page anthology of materials long out-of-print. Centerpieces include surveys of Val Lewton's acclaimed chillers of the 1940s, of Universal Pictures' less noticeable chillers and offbeat oddities, and of Western movies indebted to the great frontier painters. The book also veers away at strategic points from the more rigidly defined horror movies to consider a wealth of art-museum topics, of comic-book ...

Their names are immortal: Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, The Mummy. Now, together for the first time, we hear these three classic monsters battling each other for their very existences. When Van Helsing gets reports of vampire attacks in Turin, he discovers that there is more going on their than he realizes. Soon he is not only after a vampire, but also a mummy hell-bent on resurrecting its lost queen. But the resurrection spell raises more than just a pharaoh of old; it brings life back to an old, familiar foe: Count Dracula.

Un cartel lo dice todo: «VENDO CAMA CON FANTASMA. No se aceptan devoluciones». Convencida por la curiosidad y la necesidad de dormir, una joven recién mudada compra la cama expuesta en el almacén del barrio. Lo que no espera es que el paquete incluya un inquilino incorpóreo. Entre risa y fastidio, la convivencia revela más que malos hábitos: desvela anhelos, compromisos y las tolerancias que sostienen la vida en comunidad. Con ironía fina y una ternura inesperada, este relato juega con lo sobrenatural para hablar de lo humano: de lo que aceptamos, de lo que rechazamos y de aquello ...

Una noche cualquiera en el desierto de Mojave. Un coche detenido. Una luz imposible... Lo que comienza como una historia de abducción se transforma en una pesadilla biológica de proporciones cósmicas. ¿Qué quieren de él? ¿Por qué fue elegido? ¿Y quién es realmente el ser aterrador que parece reconocerlo? Vivisección Biopunk es un descenso brutal a lo más oscuro del alma, una obra que entrelaza horror corporal, ciencia ficción alienígena y una perturbadora exploración de la culpa y la memoria. G.G. Melies firma una nueva pieza inquietante que dejará marcas en la piel y en la ...

In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun. Here he reveals his delight in re-creating (or making up) colorful stories from the Orient, the Islamic world, and the Wild West, as well as his horrified fascination with knife fights, political and personal...

Cuando un hombre solitario, confinado en su casa junto al mar, abre la puerta a una visitante inesperada, lo último que imagina es que ella proviene de otro mundo: un planeta nacido del fuego, el exilio y la mutación. Lo que comienza como un encuentro marcado por el miedo y la desconfianza se convierte poco a poco en un diálogo íntimo sobre la supervivencia, la soledad y las frágiles fronteras entre especies. Ambientada en la quietud fantasmal de un paisaje postpandémico, Me enamoré de una chica ET del planeta COVID–19 explora lo que queda del amor y la empatía cuando la humanidad...

En esta serie de "Relatos Famosos y Leyes Universales", les presentamos El Gato Negro, publicada por primera vez en 1843 y escrita por el famoso autor americano Edgar Alan Poe.

When a sheriff and his deputies discover half-eaten farm animals, a headless teenage girl, and the sudden disappearance of a 10-year-old boy who then mysteriously reappears happy, healthy, and with no memory of his ordeal, dangerous secrets are about to unfold.

Teenage Russell Sooner has finally discovered he's a werewolf, and he's pissed. Charlton Daniels is back in town looking for the wolf who bit him and wants revenge. Jewel Porter's use of Black Magic could wipe New Berwick off Illinois' map. So, what can go wrong in light of a defiant witch and two pissed off werewolves? EVERYTHING!