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After finishing _Meddling Kids_, by Edgar Cantro, I am craving more dark delights. Here are some tantalizing selections which I culled from this week's browsing, but which I have not read yet.
Masks in Horror Cinema: Eyes Without Faces
by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
https://www.uwp.co.uk/masks-in-horror-cinema-eyes-without-faces/
"[O]ne question was always at the front of my mind: how do I write a book about one of the most ubiquitous yet under-studied iconographic elements of the horror genre, but simultaneously balance it with the bigger questions around identity, politics and power that I was more broadly interested in? To keep these later elements to the forefront of my analysis as I worked through the history of masks in horror movies, I focused explicitly on a number of central concepts that effectively became the drumbeat to which my book danced: power, ritual and transformation.
But that was then, and this is now...."
Kes: This book was published by University of Wales Press, specifically as part of their Horror Studies series, Editor: Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes, Manchester Metropolitan University.
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Earlier this week, I posted about the following book, which Alexx bought for my birthday (Puer puellae dat!):
The Greenwood Faun by Nina Antonia
http://www.egaeuspress.com/The_Greenwood_Faun.html
published by
Egaeus Press, which has a description that not only calls to me, but sounds as if it should be a BPAL scent.
The foundations for Egaeus Press were laid in the cold English summer of 2011 in the dreamclutter of a childish melancholia - a nursery room agoraphobia compelling us to recall the anguished ticks of broken clockwork, the smell of curdled milk, the image of a songbird’s funeral on the tobacco-dry pages of an antique scrapbook … We are moved by the concept of the world as a haunted house, and by the paradox of all life’s darkest fears and most ecstatic wonders being essentially one and the same.
We like (amongst other things):
lych houses and gallow trees
connoisseurs and collectors
crumbling ancestral homes
decadents and decadence
scrapbooks and cuttings
masks and toy theatres
the folk tales of Europe
forests and mountains
clocks and clockwork
puppets and players
dreams and visions
seasons and cycles
furs and antlers
poison gardens
hermetic lore
ghost stories
music boxes
attic spaces
old forces
old songs
old bones
old maps
It is our intention to publish morbid, decadent and baroque fiction in limited volumes of a quality of ornateness rarely seen in modern books.
Masks in Horror Cinema: Eyes Without Faces
by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
https://www.uwp.co.uk/masks-in-horror-cinema-eyes-without-faces/
"[O]ne question was always at the front of my mind: how do I write a book about one of the most ubiquitous yet under-studied iconographic elements of the horror genre, but simultaneously balance it with the bigger questions around identity, politics and power that I was more broadly interested in? To keep these later elements to the forefront of my analysis as I worked through the history of masks in horror movies, I focused explicitly on a number of central concepts that effectively became the drumbeat to which my book danced: power, ritual and transformation.
But that was then, and this is now...."
Kes: This book was published by University of Wales Press, specifically as part of their Horror Studies series, Editor: Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes, Manchester Metropolitan University.
https:/
Earlier this week, I posted about the following book, which Alexx bought for my birthday (Puer puellae dat!):
The Greenwood Faun by Nina Antonia
http://www.egaeuspress.com/The_Greenwood_Faun.html
published by
Egaeus Press, which has a description that not only calls to me, but sounds as if it should be a BPAL scent.
The foundations for Egaeus Press were laid in the cold English summer of 2011 in the dreamclutter of a childish melancholia - a nursery room agoraphobia compelling us to recall the anguished ticks of broken clockwork, the smell of curdled milk, the image of a songbird’s funeral on the tobacco-dry pages of an antique scrapbook … We are moved by the concept of the world as a haunted house, and by the paradox of all life’s darkest fears and most ecstatic wonders being essentially one and the same.
We like (amongst other things):
lych houses and gallow trees
connoisseurs and collectors
crumbling ancestral homes
decadents and decadence
scrapbooks and cuttings
masks and toy theatres
the folk tales of Europe
forests and mountains
clocks and clockwork
puppets and players
dreams and visions
seasons and cycles
furs and antlers
poison gardens
hermetic lore
ghost stories
music boxes
attic spaces
old forces
old songs
old bones
old maps
It is our intention to publish morbid, decadent and baroque fiction in limited volumes of a quality of ornateness rarely seen in modern books.
