Videogames are full of horrors – and of horror, a facet of the media that has been largely overlooked by the academic community in terms of lengthy studies in the fast-growing field of videogame scholarship. This book engages with the research of prominent scholars across the humanities to explore the presence, role and function of horror in videogames, and in doing so it demonstrates how videogames enter discussion on horror and offer a unique, radical space that horror is particularly suited to fill. The topics covered include the construction of stories in videogames, the role of the monster and, of course, how death is treated as a learning tool and as a facet of horror.

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jamie Thornton. Dessa has plans. She plans to stay out of trouble in the group home where she lives. She plans to work crazy hours at the grocery story to save for her own place. She plans to get her little brother back, soon, from his foster parents. But when a zombie apocalypse arrives, it wrecks all of Dessa’s plans. With the city falling into chaos, Dessa must use her street smarts to survive. Her only weapon against the zombies is a pillowcase of tuna cans. Her only allies are the other group home teens she doesn’t dare trust. And there’s only one plan left in the entire universe that matters. Find and save her brother before it’s too late. AFTER THE WORLD ENDS launches a new series in the same bestselling universe as ZOMBIES ARE HUMAN. New characters. New adventures. A thrilling zombie apocalypse awaits.

The dead have risen, and they are hungry. Slow and plodding, they are Legion. The undead hunt the living. Stop and they will catch you. Hide and they will find you. If you have a heartbeat you do the only thing you can: You run. Survivors escape to an island stronghold: A cop and his daughter, a computer nerd, a garbage man with a piece of rebar, and an escapee from a mental hospital with a life-saving secret. After reaching Alcatraz, the ever expanding group of survivors realize that the infected are not the only threat. Caught between the viciousness of the undead, and the heartlessness of the living, what choice is there? Run.

Zombie lovers and fitness enthusiasts will delight in this book that explains what zombie runs are, how to get involved in this new fitness phenomenon, and how it might help them in a later career. Beginning with a brief history of zombies in popular culture, the book then explains how pop culture boosted the idea of zombie runs as community and fund-raising events. Those interested in participating in a zombie run can find out how to find one in their area, what to expect from the event, and even how to organize one of their own.

Twelve-year-old Atua's childhood didn't consist of video games, television shows, or computer time. He grew up on the Nicoya Peninsula of Costa Rica and spent his days playing outdoors, participating in surfing competitions, and learning how to grow food. Now, as the rainy season drenches Costa Rica, Atua is off to visit his Grandpa Art in Upstate New York. But the flight attendants don't look well, and the other passengers on Atua's plane are acting strange. A fight breaks out, and the next thing he knows, Atua's waking up in the wreckage of the aircraft, miles from his final destination. And as if things weren't bad enough, the downed plane is surrounded by the flesh-eating living-dead! Tammy, a rugged girl of thirteen, has seen the plane go down and is determined to find and aid any survivors. Now Atua and Tammy team up in a race to Syracuse to find Atua's Grandpa, desperate to out-run hunger, exhaustion, and hordes of crazed, bloodthirsty Zombies.

In recent times, people have become fascinated with ideas of the walking dead, or zombies. Zombie culture has been around for many years, however, and only recently has a rise in interest taken much of popular culture by storm. This book unravels the history of zombie lore, examines variations between different cultures around the world, and explores how they continue to excite the imagination today.

Can't fight the dead? Then RUN... The dead are rising and violently attacking people on the streets of the UK. Driven by an insatiable hunger for flesh, they attack anyone who dares to go out. Anna is trapped as the zombie apocalypse rages outside her front door. Desperate and alone, she must find a way to get to her children who are with her Ex-partner. As Anna runs from the dead, she finds help from Rob and his fifteen-year-old brother, Jack, despite Rob's better instincts. Together, they run the nightmare gauntlet that used to be their neighbourhood. Run from the Dead is the first book in a zombie apocalypse series, following ordinary people trying to stay alive no matter what the cost. Battling the dead and humans alike, the people left must become somebody new. Someone prepared to do whatever it takes to live. Anna must learn to survive this cruel new world, where the living can be just as terrifying as the dead.

Add a gurgling moan with the sound of dragging feet and a smell of decay and what do you get? Better not find out. The zombie has roamed with dead-eyed menace from its beginnings in obscure folklore and superstition to global status today, the star of films such as 28 Days Later, World War Z, and the outrageously successful comic book, TV series, and video game—The Walking Dead. In this brain-gripping history, Roger Luckhurst traces the permutations of the zombie through our culture and imaginations, examining the undead’s ability to remain defiantly alive. Luckhurst follows a trail that leads from the nineteenth-century Caribbean, through American pulp fiction of the 1920s, to the middle of the twentieth century, when zombies swarmed comic books and movie screens. From there he follows the zombie around the world, tracing the vectors of its infectious global spread from France to Australia, Brazil to Japan. Stitching together materials from anthropology, folklore, travel writings, colonial histories, popular literature and cinema, medical history, and cultural theory, Zombies is the definitive short introduction to these restless pulp monsters.