Product Description: The definitive book for fans of monster movies, slasher films, and cult classics. Would you dare to come face-to-face with the most terrifying vampires, monsters, zombies, and psychos of all time? They and their movies are all here in this lavishly (and terrifyingly) illustrated volume of the greatest, scariest, and most influential fright films...read more

Product Description: Travel where no man has gone before with this decade-by-decade progression of science-fiction classics. From the classic, low-budget space exploration Flash Gordon tales of the Saturday matinee serials, to the slick CGI-realized world of The Matrix, science-fiction films have long been pushing the boundaries of the visually and dramatically fantastic—turning the known world on its head, playing with the laws of physics, and all the while holding their audience spellbound...read more

X-Men: The Characters and Their Universe tells the story of this unique band of Marvel comics’ heroes from their creation in 1963 to the present as one of the globe’s hottest franchises. This colorful, lavishly illustrated volume also traces how the characters have been adapted into the media of television and film, including the groundbreaking 1992 animated series and blockbuster feature films, including X-Men III: The Last Stand.

Product Description: From the 1920s through the 1950s, Universal Studios was Hollywood’s number one studio for horror pictures, haunting movie theaters worldwide with Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon, among others. Universal Studios Monsters: A Legacy of Horror explores all of these enduring characters, chronicling both the mythology behind the films and offering behind-the-scenes insights into how the films were created...read more

Presents a history of Hanna-Barbera and discusses such shows as the 'Flintstones', 'Jetsons,' 'Top, Cat,' and 'Scooby-Doo, Where are You!'

Product Description: A collection of stories about Amelia Watson, the second wife of Dr. John H. Watson, the friend and chronicler of Sherlock Holmes.

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A comic book fan shares his love of the giants of comics in a loving chronicle of one of the great comic book labels, tracing its influence across six decades and detailing the adventures of such larger-than-life heroes as Captain America, Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, and the X-Men, in a lavish history, complemented by some three hundred full-color illustrations.

Product Description: The redoubtable Amelia Watson - the second wife of Dr. John H. Watson of Baker Street fame - returns for thirteen light-hearted adventures whose puzzles would tax the ingenuity of the master himself! Whether soaring over England in a hot air balloon; sailing the seas on board ship; journeying to Scotland on behalf of His Majesty himself; becoming enmeshed in a Royal conspiracy at Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show; or following the clues of an ancient treasure hunt through the streets of Edwardian London, Amelia Watson is never far from a mystery, and never fails to solve the most baffling of conundrums...read more