The World of Scary Video Games - A Study in Videoludic Horror

As for film and literature, the horror genre has been very popular in the video game. The World of Scary Video Games provides a comprehensive overview of the videoludic horror, dealing with the games labelled as "survival horror" as well as the mainstream and independent works associated with the genre. It examines the ways in which video games have elicited horror, terror and fear since Haunted House (1981). Bernard Perron combines an historical account with a theoretical approach in order to offer a broad history of the genre, outline its formal singularities and explore its principal issues. It studies the most important games and game series, from Haunted House ( 1981) to Alone in the Dark (1992- ), Resident Evil (1996-present), Silent Hill (1999-present), Fatal Frame (2001-present), Dead Space (2008-2013), Amnesia: the Dark Descent (2010), and The Evil Within (2014). Accessibly written, The World of Scary Video Games helps the reader to trace the history of an important genre of the video game.>

About the author

Bernard Perron is Full Professor of Cinema and Video Game at the University of Montreal, Canada. He has written Silent Hill: The Terror Engine (2012) in the Landmark Video Games book series he is co-editing. He has edited Horror Video Games: Essays on the Fusion of Fear and Play (2009). Among others, he has also co-edited The Video Game Theory Reader I (2003), The Routledge Companion to Video Games Studies (2014), and Video Games and the Mind: Essays on Cognition, Affect and Emotions (2016).

Product details

• Authors: Bernard Perron, Bernard (University of Montreal Perron, Professor Bernard (University of Montreal Perron
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781501316203
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-1620-3
• No. of pages: 488
• Series: Approaches to Digital Game Studies; Approaches to Digital Game Stu; Approaches to Digital Game Studies
• Subjects: Guides; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, MATHEMATICS / Game Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, game theory, Violence in society, Violence and abuse in society