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  • The Official World

    by Mark Seltzer ...
    In his virtuosic new book noted cultural critic Mark Seltzer shows how suspense, as art form and form of life, depicts and shapes the social systems that organize our modern world. Modernity's predicament, Seltzer writes, is a society so hungry for reality that it cannot stop describing itself, and that makes for a world that continuously establishes itself by staging its own conditions. Employing ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • True Crime

    Observations on Violence and Modernity

    by Mark Seltzer ...
    True crime is crime fact that looks like crime fiction. It is one of the most popular genres of our pathological public sphere, and an integral part of our contemporary wound culture-a culture, or at least cult, of commiseration. If we cannot gather in the face of anything other than crime, violence, terror, trauma, and the wound, we can at least commiserate. That is, as novelist Chuck Palahniuk ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Serial Killers

    Death and Life in America's Wound Culture

    by Mark Seltzer ...
    In this provocative cultural study, the serial killer emerges as a central figure in what Mark Seltzer calls 'America's wound culture'. From the traumas displayed by talk show guests and political candidates, to the violent entertainment of Crash or The Alienist, to the latest terrible report of mass murder, we are surrounded by the accident from which we cannot avert our eyes. Bringing depth and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Bodies and Machines (Routledge Revivals)

    by Mark Seltzer ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Bodies and Machines is a striking and persuasive examination of the body-machine complex and its effects on the modern American cultural imagination. Bodies and Machines, first published in 1992, explores the links between techniques of representation and social and scientific technologies of power in a wide range of realist and naturalist discourses and practices. Seltzer draws on realist and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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    The Omen

    by David Seltzer ...
    Narrated by Holly Palance, Mark Owen ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 8 min

    Jeremy Thorn and his wife, Katherine, have just welcomed the newest member of their family to the world: their beautiful son Damien. But as the boy grows, so does the terror surrounding him. Fatal accidents, suicides, and unexplained violence seem to follow the Thorns wherever they go—but why? And how can Damien have anything to do with the carnage and bloodshed? He is only a child. But Damien ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Halloween

    The Official Movie Novelization

    by John Passarella ...
    Narrated by Emily Sutton-Smith ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 2 min

    The official novelization of the revamp of the classic horror film HalloweenIn 1978, Laurie Strode survived an encounter with Michael Myers, a masked figure who killed her friends and terrorized the town of Haddonfield, Illinois, on Halloween night. Myers was later gunned down, apprehended, and committed to Smith’s Grove State Hospital.For forty years, memories of that nightmarish ordeal have ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Piano Teacher

    The True Story of a Psychotic Killer

    by Robert K. Tanenbaum, Peter S. Greenberg ...
    New York Times bestselling author Robert K. Tanenbaum tells the terrifying and gripping story of Charles Yukl, a mild-mannered piano and voice teacher that killed and abused his students.Everybody has a dream. For aspiring actress Suzanne Reynolds, her dream ended in a gruesome encounter with eccentric New York artist Charles Yukl. Fooled by his choirboy looks, Reynolds had no idea the man who ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • In the Middle of the Night

    The Shocking True Story of a Family Killed in Cold Blood

    by Brian McDonald ...
    Series series St. Martin's True Crime Library
    A robbery takes a fatal turn. The true story of the shocking Connecticut home invasion perpetrated by Joshua Komisarjevsky and Steven Hayes.The affluent suburb of Cheshire, Connecticut, seemed like the perfect place for Dr. William Petit and his wife, Jennifer Hawke-Petit, to raise their two lovely daughters. Until July 23, 2007, when, according to police, two ex-cons invaded the Petit home hoping ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Invisible Killer

    The Monster Behind the Mask

    by Diana Montane, Sean Robbins ...
    When detectives respond to a crime scene in Orlando, Florida, during the "summer of hurricanes" in 2004, they find Charlie Brandt hanging from the rafters in the garage of his niece, Michelle Jones' home. Inside the house, they find a scene of horror that reminds them of other murders. In 1978, 13-year-old Carol Lynn Sullivan's head was found inside a rusty paint can in Osteen, Florida; her body ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Pickaxe Killers: Karla Faye Tucker & Daniel Garrett (A True Crime Short)

    R. Barri Flowers Murder Chronicles, #2

    by R. Barri Flowers ...
    Series Book 2 - R. Barri Flowers Murder Chronicles
    From R. Barri Flowers, award winning criminologist and internationally bestselling author of The Sex Slave Murders, comes a riveting new true crime short, The Pickaxe Killers.Having written about hundreds of notable murders in his bestselling true crime book, Murders In The United States: Crimes, Killer and Victims of the Twentieth Century, one case that stood out to Flowers for its sheer ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Body Parts

    by Caitlin Rother ...
    Now updated with shocking details about the identity of Wayne Adam Ford’s first victim – revealed 25 years after her death – the brand new edition of a true crime classic from New York Times bestselling author Caitlin Rother delves into the disturbing mind and brutal crimes of the Humboldt County serial killer now on Death Row.“I hurt some people.”With these words, a tearful man hinted at a deadly ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Deadly Encounters

    True Crime Stories of Alberta

    by Barbara Smith ...
    Quiet pleasant communties, sparkling under the clear blue skies of Alberta, have witnessed bloody murders and violent mayhem.From a wide variety of accounts, Babara Smith has selected eight intriguing stories that will astound and amaze you.Mystery still surrounds the fate of pro golfer Frank Willey who disappeared in 1962. Two men were convicted of his murder, but his body has never been found. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus