Horror Video Games

Bernard Perron is a professor of film and game studies at the University of Montreal. He has edited, co-edited and written many essays and books on film and video game theories as well as on horror films and horror video games.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments     Foreword: A Little Light in the DarknessCLIVE BARKER      Introduction: Gaming After DarkBERNARD PERRON      APPROACHING THE GENREMatch Made in Hell: The Inevitable Success of the Horror Genre in Video GamesRICHARD ROUSE III      Games of Fear: A Multi-Faceted Historical Account of the Horror Genre in Video GamesCARL THERRIEN      Gothic Bloodlines in Survival Horror GamingLAURIE N. TAYLOR      Storytelling in Survival Horror Video GamesEWAN KIRKLAND      Shock, Horror: First-Person Gaming, Horror, and the Art of Ludic ManipulationDAN PINCHBECK      Haunting Backgrounds: Transnationality and Intermediality in Japanese Survival Horror Video GamesMARTIN PICARD      The Survival Horror: The Extended Body GenreBERNARD PERRON      ENCOUNTERING THE GAMESPlunged Alone into Darkness: Evolution in the Staging of Fear in the Alone in the Dark SeriesGUILLAUME ROUX-GIRARD      Patterns of Obscurity: Gothic Setting and Light in Resident Evil 4 and Silent Hill      SIMON NIEDENTHAL      Hair-Raising Entertainment: Emotions, Sound, and Structure in Silent Hill 2 and Fatal FrameINGER EKMAN and PETRI LANKOSKI      Complete Horror in Fatal FrameMICHAEL NITSCHE      Gaming’s Hauntology: Dead Media in Dead Rising, Siren and Michigan: Report from HellCHRISTIAN MCCREA      The Rules of Horror: Procedural Adaptation in Clock Tower, Resident Evil, and Dead RisingMATTHEW WEISE      Reanimating H.P. Lovecraft: The Ludic Paradox of Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the EarthTANYA KRZYWINSKA      About the Contributors      Index