[Air-L] Book Announcement: The World of Scarry Video Games by Bernard Perron

[Gerald Voorhees]

 Apologies for cross-posting; Please distribute widely.

It is my great pleasure to announce the recent publication of an exciting
new volume in the Approaches to Digital Game Studies
<http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/approaches-to-digital-game-studies/> book
series.

*The World of Scary Video Games
<https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-world-of-scary-video-games-9781501316197/>
*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), combining
a thorough historical account with a sophisticated theoretical framework in
order to offer a broad history of the genre, outline its formal
singularities and explore its principal issues. It discusses pivotal 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 and structure of an important
video game genre.

This book is available now in paperback, hardback, and various ebook
formats from your favorite online retailers.

Orders via Bloomsbury.com or Bloomsbury.uk will receive a 35% discount with
the coupon code " GLR MP4" on the checkout page. (Actually this code works
for all in-stock titles in the series!)

Authors interested in proposing a volume to the series can learn more at
https://sites.google.com/site/approachestodigitalgamestudies/ and contact
the series editors at gamestudies.books at gmail.com.

Thanks and best regards,

Gerald