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Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream
$24.95 Add to cartAs a native Angeleno who was born in 1960 and came of age in the 1970s, the music produced by the artists who populate this book provided the soundtrack to my youth, so it is a subject matter that is … [more below]
- Author: McGowan, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: April 30 2014
- ISBN10: 1909394122
- Language: English
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Hollywood Haunts the World: An Investigation Into the Cinema of Occulted Taboos
$29.95 Add to cartThe secret history of the world can be decoded through film.
In Hollywood Haunts the World: An Investigation into the Cinema of Occulted Taboos, Robert Guffey deconstructs the most powerful taboos of … [more below]
- Author: Guffey, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1915316375
- Language: English
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Ghost of an Idea: Hauntology, Folk Horror, and the Spectre of Nostalgia
$27.95 Add to cartThe future ain’t what it used to be.
Is nostalgia revitalizing or killing 21st-century culture? The concept of nostalgia has seeped into almost all aspects of modern-day media, none more so than horror… [more below]
- Author: Burns, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1915316316
- Language: English
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Art! Trash! Terror!: Adventures in Strange Cinema
$31.95 Add to cartFrom filmmaker, former Fangoria editor-in-chief, and Corman/Poe author Chris Alexander comes ART! TRASH! TERROR! Adventures in Strange Cinema, a treasure trove of in-depth essays and edifying intervie… [more below]
- Author: Alexander, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 460
- Publish Date: March 15 2025
- ISBN10: 191531643X
- Language: English
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Corman/Poe: Interviews and Essays Exploring the Making of Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe Films, 1960-1964
$27.95 Read moreTHE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER, THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM, PREMATURE BURIAL, TALES OF TERROR, THE HAUNTED PALACE, THE RAVEN, MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, THE TOMB OF LIGEIA…
Produced on modest budgets fo… [more below]
- Author: Alexander, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1915316073
- Language: English
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Aesthetic Deviations: A Critical View of American Shot-On-Video Horror, 1984-1994
$27.95 Read moreLong considered the dead-end of genre cinema, Shot-On-Video (SOV) horror finally gets its due as a serious filmmaking practice.
Using classic fanzines, promotional materials, and especially the theori… [more below]
- Author: Albarano, Vincent A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: August 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1915316235
- Language: English
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I Spit on Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies
$32.95 Read moreSlumber Party Massacre. Pet Sematary. Near Dark. American Psycho — These horror movies have heavily contributed to pop culture and are loved by horror fans everywhere. But so many others have been fo… [more below]
- Author: Honeycutt, Heidi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1915316294
- Language: English
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Pure: The Sexual Revolutions of Marilyn Chambers
$23.95 Read moreThe untold story of the world’s most famous X-rated star, who rose to fame as the face of Ivory Snow and the star of Behind the Green Door but struggled to find her true self in a world of sex, scanda
- Author: Stearns, Jared
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: May 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1915316197
- Language: English
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Cannibal Error
$32.95 Add to cartA social history of the ‘video nasty’.
In the early 1980s, video technology forever changed the face of home entertainment. The videocassette – a handy-sized cartridge of magnetic tape inside a plastic
- Author: Kerekes, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 596
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1909394955
- Language: English
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The Satanic Screen: An Illustrated Guide to the Devil in Cinema
$31.95 Add to cartSatan has figured in film since the very birth of cinema. The Satanic Screen documents all of Satan’s cinematic incarnations, covering not only the horror genre but also a whole range of sub-genres in… [more below]
- Author: Schreck, Nikolas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 436
- Publish Date: May 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1915316278
- Language: English
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Blood In, Blood Out: The Violent Empire of the Aryan Brotherhood
$19.95 Read moreFrom the dead centre of the enormous American penitentiary system, the Aryan Brotherhood was the lion that somehow seized control of the city as well as the zoo, steadily coming to dominate the billio… [more below]
- Author: Lee Brook, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 15 2011
- ISBN10: 1900486776
- Language: English
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B-Side: A Flipsided History of Pop
$25.95 Read morePop music would be a different beast without the B-Side. Music history is riven with songs deemed throwaway that revolted against their lowly status and refused to be denied. Be it rock’n’roll’s natio
- Author: Cowan, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 1915316138
- Language: English
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Who Cares Anyway: Post-Punk San Francisco and the End of the Analog Age
$37.95 Add to cartLate ’70s San Francisco. The Summer of Love is a hazy memory, the AIDS crisis is looming, and nearby Silicon Valley is still an obscure place where microchips are made. The City by the Bay is reeling … [more below]
- Author: York, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 572
- Publish Date: April 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1915316057
- Language: English
