Amazingly, there has never been a book quite like The Art of Horror a celebration of frightful images, compiled and presented by some of the genre's most respected names. While acknowledging the beginnings of horror-related art in legends and folk tales, the focus of the book is on how the genre has presented itself to the world since the creations of Bram Stoker and Mary Shell...(展开全部)

Labyrinth 1 is an intricate structure of intercommunicating passages, through which it is difficult to find one's way without a clue; a maze. They have never met, they have been assigned strange pseudonyms, they inhabit identical rooms, which open out onto very different landscapes, and they have entered into a dialogue, which they cannot escape - a discourse defined and destro...(展开全部)

Alain Corbin is one of the foremost social and cultural historians in Europe today. In this elegant and lucid study he argues that the 1860s were a crucial period for western civilization, characterized by radical changes in the way Europeans viewed themselves and their world. Focusing on France, Corbin shows how order was imposed on the urban space of its capital city, with th...(展开全部)

Marshall Sahlins centers these essays on islands--Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand--whose histories have intersected with European history. But he is also concerned with the insular thinking in Western scholarship that creates false dichotomies between past and present, between structure and event, between the individual and society. Sahlins's provocative reflections form a powerful c...(展开全部)

Marshall Sahlins centers these essays on islands--Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand--whose histories have intersected with European history. But he is also concerned with the insular thinking in Western scholarship that creates false dichotomies between past and present, between structure and event, between the individual and society. Sahlins's provocative reflections form a powerful c...(展开全部)

Slumber 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 forgotten by history. From the first silent reels to modern independent films, in this book you’ll discover the creepy, horrible, grotesque, beautiful, wrong, good, and fantastic -- ...(展开全部)

(全一冊) 小圓與花心成性的男友富夫一起私奔，過著兩人世界的生活，想不到富夫卻不知為何躲進被窩裡不肯出來，他究竟看到了什麼……？歷史悠久的木造房屋，一天來了一名自稱就讀建築系的女子開口閉口就誇讚這屋子很性感的女子，究竟是什麼人物？伊藤潤二繼前作「新闇之聲‧潰談」後，睽違８年才推出的全新恐怖漫畫短篇集！本書同時收錄於其他雜誌連載的「耳語女」。

(全一冊) 小圓與花心成性的男友富夫一起私奔，過著兩人世界的生活，想不到富夫卻不知為何躲進被窩裡不肯出來，他究竟看到了什麼……？歷史悠久的木造房屋，一天來了一名自稱就讀建築系的女子開口閉口就誇讚這屋子很性感的女子，究竟是什麼人物？伊藤潤二繼前作「新闇之聲‧潰談」後，睽違８年才推出的全新恐怖漫畫短篇集！本書同時收錄於其他雜誌連載的「耳語女」。

Joel Townsley Rogers is best known for his classic thriller, THE RED RIGHT HAND, which has been in print since its first publication in 1945. But he was also one of the great short story writers of the pulp era and now, for the first time, Barry Warren has collected seven of his best stories. Most of the stories are about mystery writers and their struggle to get published -- o...(展开全部)

For over a century, philosophers have argued that philosophy is impossible or useless, or both. Although the basic notion dates back to the days of Socrates, there is still heated disagreement about the nature of truth, reality, knowledge, the good, and God. This leaves us with a feeling of radical uncertainty, a feeling described by Kolakowski as "metaphysical horror". "The ho...(展开全部)