Horror Video Games: Essays on the Fusion of Fear and Play
Horror Video Games: Essays on the Fusion of Fear and Play, is a collection of essays concerning horror video games. The book is edited by Bernard Perron and has a foreword by Clive Barker.
This publication is a first of its kind, as nowhere has the themes and variations of horror games previously been so thoroughly analyzed. The book provides 14 essays on various topics, by the following authors: Clive Barker, Inger Ekman, Ewan Kirkland, Tanya Krzywinska, Petri Lankoski, Christian McCrea, Simon Niedenthal, Michael Nitsche, Martin Picard, Bernard Perron, Dan Pinchbeck, Richard Rouse III, Guillaume Roux-Girard, Laurie N. Taylor, Carl Therrien, and Matthew Weise.
Together with Petri Lankoski, we contributed with an essay on horror sound called Hair-Raising Entertainment: Emotions, Sound, and Structure in Silent Hill 2 and Fatal Frame
The book will be available in October, but you can already pre-order it straight from McFarland, or alternatively from Amazon.
