| Description |
380 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-380). |
| Contents |
Creepy crawls of horror in culture & society:In search of monstrously man-made murder, madness, and the macabre -- To lurk amidst the loathsome within the London fog -- Grim Paris:the macabre underbelly of the city of light -- Crispy crawls of horror in literature:In search of the leprous lords of laudably loathsome letters -- Sleepy hollow: amidst the headless haunts of the Hudson Valley -- To worship the conqueror worm: the forlorn haunts of Edgar Allan Poe's Baltimore -- An Eldrich shadow over New England: heeding the call of the unspeakable horrors of H.P. Lovecraft -- The return to the Horror King: a pilgrimage to the Maine-iacal throne of Stephen King -- Creepy crawls of horror in film: in search of the cadaverous curiosities of classick corpse-mongering celluloid -- Hollywood deathtrip: robbing the graves of the ghoulish greats of the ghastly golden age of celluloid horror -- The rotting and flesh-ravenous realms of Gorge Romero's dead Pennyslvania -- The perversely possessed & puke-ridden Washington, D.C. domain of the exorcist -- At the altar of anthropophagy: exhuming the ensanguined ephemera of the Texas chainsaw massacre -- Gobbling the grisly giallo gross-eries at Dario Argento's profondo rosso shoppe -- Exhuming the murderously morbid mysteries of the home of Michael Myers: A horrid tour through the homicidal Southern California haunts of Halloween's "Haddenfield" -- Exorcising the controversial celluloid creeps of the Amityville Horror -- The savagely man-slaughterous sylvan realms of Friday the 13th's New Jersey. |
| Summary |
Macabre and morbid city offerings and various vile movie locations are explored in hair-raising detail in this entertaining travel guide. The names and addresses of assorted people, places, and things associated with the horror genre--such as the real-life Baltimore haunts of Edgar Allan Poe, the final resting place of Bela Lugosi, and Stephen King's Maine--are coupled with trivia, travel tips, photographs, and a ghoulishly fun narrative, making this a creepily informative alternative to traditional guidebooks.--From publisher description. |
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Travel -- Guidebooks.
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Horror tales -- Geography -- Guidebooks.
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Horror films -- Geography -- Guidebooks.
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Literary landmarks -- Guidebooks.
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Motion picture locations -- Guidebooks.
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Cemeteries -- Guidebooks.
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Cemeteries. (OCoLC)fst00850521
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Literary landmarks. (OCoLC)fst00999933
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Motion picture locations. (OCoLC)fst01027200
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Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
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| Genre/Form |
Horror fiction.
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Guidebooks. (OCoLC)fst01423871
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Horror fiction. (OCoLC)fst01921684
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| ISBN |
1595800131 |
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9781595800138 |
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