Videogames and Horror

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Videogames and Horror is written by Dawn Stobbart and published by University of Wales Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1786834383 (ISBN 10) and 9781786834386 (ISBN 13).

Videogames are full of horrors – and of horror, a facet of the media that has been largely overlooked by the academic community in terms of lengthy studies in the fast-growing field of videogame scholarship. This book engages with the research of prominent scholars across the humanities to explore the presence, role and function of horror in videogames, and in doing so it demonstrates how videogames enter discussion on horror and offer a unique, radical space that horror is particularly suited to fill. The topics covered include the construction of stories in videogames, the role of the monster and, of course, how death is treated as a learning tool and as a facet of horror.