Take this spooky activity book for a spin! With a built-in spinner and over 20 Halloween-themed games, this travel-sized book has everything kids 6-9 need for hours of entertainment. Surrounded by adorable Halloween illustrations, the attached spinner cleverly folds out to work with every game. The games in this 32-page book include activities for one and for multiple players, including Hidden Pictures puzzles, fill-in story challenges, silly brainteaser games and more. Each activity is expertly created by the childhood experts at Highlights to help kids develop their concentration, attention to detail and other important school skills. Plus, playing games is a great way for children to build social emotional skills. Halloween Games is part of Highlights Fun to Go collection of take-along game books that let kids share the fun wherever they may be, from road trips to waiting rooms. This activity book is a great Halloween treat to share with the family or a way to keep kids entertained independently while on the go.

Build in some time for frightful fun with the whole family! With more than 50 ideas for Halloween-themed games, puzzles, challenges, and activities, there is something to keep everyone entertained this autumn. Grab your own LEGO® bricks as well as this book and the pieces that come with it and get ready for scarily good time with your friends and family! Challenge friends to complete the scary escape room puzzles. Mix up a brick-built potion. Make it through the monster trap board game and much more! Plus, use the pieces that come with the book to invent your own games. Comes with 40 Halloween-themed LEGO elements to add to your builds, including a skeleton minifigure! ©2024 The LEGO Group.

As for film and literature, the horror genre has been very popular in the video game. The World of Scary Video Games provides a comprehensive overview of the videoludic horror, dealing with the games labelled as “survival horror” as well as the mainstream and independent works associated with the genre. It examines the ways in which video games have elicited horror, terror and fear since Haunted House (1981). Bernard Perron combines an historical account with a theoretical approach in order to offer a broad history of the genre, outline its formal singularities and explore its principal issues. It studies the most important games and game series, from Haunted House (1981) to Alone in the Dark (1992- ), Resident Evil (1996-present), Silent Hill (1999-present), Fatal Frame (2001-present), Dead Space (2008-2013), Amnesia: the Dark Descent (2010), and The Evil Within (2014). Accessibly written, The World of Scary Video Games helps the reader to trace the history of an important genre of the video game.

A critical study of the low-budget film formula described as the "stalker" film, popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The discussion suggests reasons for its impressive popularity and demonstrates how a generic form is organized to speak a cultural text. Illustrated.

"Ghostly games, creepy crafts, frightfully funny jokes, and more fun stuff"--Cover.