This book compares production and consumption of Asian horror cinemas in different national contexts and their multidirectional dialogues with Hollywood and neighboring Asian cultures. Individual essays highlight common themes including technology, digital media, adolescent audience sensibilities, transnational co-productions, pan-Asian marketing techniques, and variations on good vs. evil evident in many Asian horror films. Contributors include Kevin Heffernan, Adam Knee, Chi-Yun Shin, Chika Kinoshita, Robert Cagle, Emilie Yeh Yueh-yu, Neda Ng Hei-tung, Hyun-suk Seo, Kyung Hyun Kim, and Robert Hyland.

The first of its kind, this study examines the exemplars of hardcore horror--Fred Vogel's August Underground trilogy, Shane Ryan's Amateur Porn Star Killer series and Lucifer Valentine's "vomit gore" films. The author begins with a definition and critical overview of this marginalized subgenre before exploring its key aesthetic convention, the pursuit of realist horror. Production practices, exhibition and marketing strategies are discussed in an in-depth interview with filmmaker Shane Ryan. Audience reception is covered with a focus on fan interaction via the Internet.

*Warning* This story contains graphic materials. When Meadow decided to throw out a safety tradition she finds her life drastically changes for the worst. Mistake after mistake lands her in quite the predicament where she has to figure out whether or not her life is important enough to save. Will the decision save the world in time or unleash a monster no one would see coming

*Warning* This story contains graphic materials that some may not find suitable. Read at your own risk. Joannie was nicknamed Beauty her entire life, a nickname she grew to hate. What she hated more than that nickname was her life. Although she was beautiful, her life was filled with abuse and sorrow. At the age of 15, she finds herself on the streets trying to do everything she could to survive. She works multiple jobs to pay for her schooling but it’s not enough to get off the streets. One day she finds a business card for The MEC, which is The Medical Experiment Clinic. It promises her more money than she knows what to do with and finally she sees a solution to get off the streets. She signs up for the experiment, however, The MEC lies about what they are experimenting on her with. When she finally escapes, years have passed and everything from her previous life is gone. She finds herself rich and itching for revenge. Thanks to the experiment she now has to consume 13 of the vilest people that she finds in order to resurrect an old villain by the name of Mr. Rumple. Armed with 13 souls, she makes her way to hell. However, things don’t go as planned and Beauty morphs into The Beast. The world becomes turned upside down when Mr. Rumple who had always been a villain, now has to be the hero to stop The Beast.

In Let Me Tell You a Story, Tim Waggoner continues what he started in the Bram Stoker Award-winning Writing in the Dark (2020) and Writing in the Dark: The Workbook (2022), both of which focus on the art of composing successful horror fiction. This latest guidebook takes a different approach, foregrounding Waggoner’s prolific, decades-long career as a professional author. Partly autobiographical, partly tutorial and diagnostic, each chapter features one of Waggoner’s stories followed by reflection on the historical context of publication, insightful commentary, and exercises for writers who are just learning their craft as well as those who have already made a name for themselves. As always, Waggoner’s experience, wit, and know-how shine through as he discusses and re-evaluates material from 1990 to 2018. Let Me Tell You a Story is a vital contribution to his evolving nonfictional oeuvre.

*Warning* This story contains graphic materials that some may not find suitable. Read at your own risk. This is a short story collection that you will want to sink your teeth into. Four stories of cannibals, packed full with something to chomp on.

*Warning* This book contains graphic materials that some may not find suitable. Read at your own risk. This book is a collection of all the short stories I wrote in 2022 that didn't make it into a paperback. I hope you enjoy them. This book contains Demons, Revenge, Book of fears, and I eat people.