Organized alphabetically to facilitate use of the encyclopedia as a research tool, it also includes entries on important scholarly works in the expanding field of zombie studies. Idaho Winter is a boy who, through no fault of his own, is loathed by everyone in his town.
His father feeds him roadkill for breakfast, the crossing guard steers cars toward him as he crosses the road, and parents encourage their children to plot against him. That is, until he meets a young girl named Madison who empathizes with his suffering. But when Madison is attacked by dogs meant to harm Idaho, Idaho gets up and runs home, changing the course of the entire story. Idaho soon learns that his suffering has been cruelly designed by a clumsy writer who has made his book meaner than all the others to make it stand out.
In the sleepy town of Pontypool, Ontario, no one is safe from an epidemic so devastating it will leave you literally speechless. And Bob is the only resident. But then something very strange happens. But as his body count rises, subtle clues—including a true crime-esque photo insert—begin to paint a picture even more disturbing than the one Bob so bluntly describes. The nature of the detective story itself models how we build and share knowledge.
Drawing on concepts from literature and media studies, the author reveals clues about modern phenomena like conspiracy theory, groupthink and the nature of our digital identities.
Most people have some knowledge about these creatures, and have had fleeting contact with ghosts, fairies, vampires and goblins, either in their imagination, or while reading, watching, or interacting with other people whether in reality or the online world.
What does the mother in Beowulf really represent? How can the character of Zoey Redbird really be understood? What is the importance of memories in Buffy the Vampire Slayer?
And what role does the children-friendly vampire play? Beyond the Night offers a range of insights into these topics, as well as many more. It presents the reader with a vast array of old and new creatures in popular culture, analysing the significance they have for wider society.
This collection will also help readers to understand their favourite monsters better in relation to questions concerning sexuality, gender, social change, and otherness.
The volume draws on extensive archival research as well as insightful interviews with significant writers, producers and actors. The book offers detailed analysis of major radio series such as Appointment with Fear, The Man in Black, The Price of Fear and Fear on Four as well as one-off horror plays, comedy-horror and experimental uses of binaural and digital technology in producing uncanny audio.
It serves not only as a follow-up to its predecessor The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, McFarland , which covered movies from up until the late s, but also as a fresh exploration of what uniquely defines the genre in the s.
In-depth entries provide critical analysis of the zombie as creature in more than feature-length movies, from 28 countries and filmed on six continents. An appendix offers shorter entries for more than shorts and serials. The third and final installment of the trilogy, this novel reveals the what happens in a town that can't get to sleep at night, where everybody's embarrassed but nobody is mentioning the mess. The book asks questions the town doesn't want answered, such as Who's been sleeping in your bed?
You're safe when you lock your front door, right? Not in this town, the story reveals. News coverage of the fall of Baghdad and its aftermath were the inspiration for 'Ravenna,' especially the smaller stories of people being killed suddenly in their homes in the middle of otherwise normal days.
Each story in 'Ravenna Gets' begins as any novel might, but abruptly loses the luxury of becoming a novel through a seemingly random and violent intrusion from beyond the world established by the story. The effect is intended to be that of the experience of war as the sudden end of stories, rather than being a war story itself. This destabilizing 'pinch' seeps into the consciousness of some of the stories, not as a consciousness of events, but rather as nightmarish bends in experience and perception.
Ballard, and, though experimental in spirit, it employs strong conventional storytelling techniques. When taking a reader to the cliff edge, then the writing must be as enticing as chocolate even if the story smells bad. I don't get it and I didn't enjoy it, but I couldn't look away: This poetic, fast-flying nihilistic narrative of carnage is well done. Many of the tales, which are all named after an address in Collingwood, begin like a standard short story - what Burgess calls "the lightness and the pointlessness of establishing life" - before its characters are suddenly dispatched in a variety of ghoulish ways.
Small Ontario towns are whacking each other with more gore than Hostel, more pitchforks than American Gothic. This is a pitiful excuse for literature and Tony Burgess is our only hope.
A surreal retelling of a true crime in from the killer's deranged perspective. The compelling, terrifying story of a devastating virus. Have you ever imagined what it would be like to kill someone? Wondered, in your darkest secret thoughts, about the taste of human flesh? Well, today's your lucky day: in fact, by this afternoon, the predators will outnumber the prey. Pontypool Changes Everything includes a new afterword by Tony Burgess about the adaptation and filming of the motion picture Pontypool.
Fiction For Lovers is a collection of short stories depicting human intimacy as a stage for aggressive and violent deterioration. Vivisection, traditionally held as a repellent and punishable act, becomes a progressive marital aid. Worms the size of buildings, bugs numbering in the millions, and the partial logic of appearance are combined in new and refreshing ways, making Fiction For Lovers another must-read from the pen of this popular writer.
A fiendishly clever dystopian novel for the digital age, The Word Exchange is a fresh, stylized and decidedly original debut about the dangers of technology and the power of the printed word.
In the not so distant future, the forecasted "death of print" has become a reality. Bookstores, libraries, newspapers and magazines are a thing of the past, as we spend our time glued to handheld devices called Memes that not only keep us in constant communication, but have become so intuitive as to hail us cabs before we leave our offices, order take out at the first growl of a hungry stomach, and even create and sell language itself in a marketplace called The Word Exchange.
Doug is a staunchly anti-Meme, anti-tech intellectual who fondly remembers the days when people used email everything now is text or video-conference to communicate--or even actually spoke to one antoher for that matter.
It's a code word he and Anana devised to signal if one of them ever fell into harm's way. And thus begins Anana's journey down the proverbial rabbit hole. Joined by Bart, her bookish NADEL colleague who is secretly in love with her , Anana's search for Doug will take her into dark basement incinerator rooms, underground passages of the Mercantile Library, secret meetings of the anonymous "Diachronic Society," the boardrooms of the evil online retailing site Synchronic, and ultimately to the hallowed halls of the Oxford English Dictionary--the spiritual home of the written word.
As Ana pieces togehter what is going on, and Bart gets sicker and sicker with the strange "Word flu" that has spread worldwide causing people to speak in gibberish, Alena Graedon crafts a fresh, cautionary tale that is at once a technological thriller, and a throughtful meditation on the price of technology and the unforeseen, though very real, dangers of the digital age. Get BOOK. Skip to content A compelling, terrifying story of a devastating virus.
Pontypool Changes Everything. The dark side of humanity is explored in this electrifying science fiction thriller in which an epidemic virus terrorizes the earth. Causing its inhabitants to strike out on murderous rampages, the virus is caught through conversation and, once contracted, leads its host on a strange journeyinto another world where the.
Three celebrated books -- all of which harbour a twisted ambition to physically alter your imagination -- together for the first time. The Hellmouths of Bewdley is a series of 16 stories hiding in a novel about a small town in Ontario's cottage country. Navigating through drunk and dead men,. The third and final installment of the trilogy, this novel reveals the what happens in a town that can't get to sleep at night, where everybody's embarrassed but nobody is mentioning the mess.
The book asks questions the town doesn't want answered, such as Who's been sleeping in your bed? A new play from acclaimed writer Tony Burgess, author of the wildly successful novel, Pontypool Changes Everything.
In the sleepy town of Pontypool, Ontario, no one is safe from an epidemic so devastating it will leave you literally speechless.
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