Wednesday, July 11, 2018

A Stitch In Time, Cult Horror and Dystopia


I love lined notebooks.  I especially love lined notebook/journals that feature clever and colorful covers and interesting interior and print designs.
 
Flame Tree Publishing’s Aimee Stewart: A Stitch in Time Bookshelves (Foiled Journal), fits the bill on all accounts.

With its clever, magnetic side flap, two bookmarks, a back pocket for receipts and scraps and its five color foil, embossed and foil stamp front and back cover illustrations, it is a wonder to behold.

Talk about eye-popping and gorgeous and such detail!

Looking all-the-world like a bookcase with beautifully bound books accompanied by elegant ladies dressed in their finery, the cover illustration is packed with so much detail it delights the eyes long before it is opened. 

Once inside the cream-colored, lined paper invites you to write with your very best penmanship in order to copy the gorgeous exterior.  Now that’s classy!  Where did I put my calligraphy pens?

There are Horror films and then there are Cult Horror films that chill to the bone and are the stuff of nightmares.
Russ Thorne presents Gothic Dreams Cult Horror: The Book Of Dark Fantasy Horror & Supernatural Movies.

I’m not a big fan of Horror films-I tend to scare too easily.  But, I have a number of friends who thrive on the stuff.

After looking through and reading Cult Horror I have discovered a book that will even send shivers up their spins.

The hard-bound, spot-foil varnish cover book contains images so horrifying, sense-shattering and blood curdling that even die-hard Horror fans will have a hard time sleeping at night once they look at it.

Ground-breaking and classic Horror films are given their just due with archive black and white and full-color photos, extensive informative text and movie posters.

The print quality of the book is top notch, with vibrant colors, well executed page layouts and some clever design tricks.  It’s ‘horror’ifically fun!

Also from Gothic Dreams comes David Golder’s Dystopia: Post Apocalyptic Art, Fiction, Movies & More.
Practically ever since Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror movies, books and literature have been around there have been tales about the end of the world.

Whether it’s from man’s neglect and abuse of the environment, an atomic war, an alien invasion, a zombie apocalypse or a dozen other worldwide disasters that wipes most of mankind, such tales fascinate audiences.

Inside full-color art, posters and photos represent every conceivable type of end-of-time scenarios.  

If the end of it all is the end of all for you then this is the book you must have.

This is one book that when you finish reading and looking at it, you’re really finished-permanently!
It’s the total end man!