Encyclopocalypse Dispatch #22
Ariel Powers-Schaub redefines "Torture Porn" with Millennial Nasties! New addition to our SRS Cinema Series! Stanley Stepanic Brings Vampires to the Jazz Era! Announcing our first Children's Book!
I’m recovering from a LONG travel day yesterday as I’ve come back from Idaho. I took my son to the Simplot Games with a few other boys on his track team. They did amazing, I’m so proud of all their hard work! Glad to be back in Southern California, though. Hopefully this hot cup of coffee will help me adjust from some major jet lag.
While I was traveling I had some time to get A LOT done for Encyclopocalypse.
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NEW TITLE ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Part Mart
By Bret Nelson
Release Date: May 7, 2024
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Body horror…for kids!
Coming in May, it's our first children's book!
Each night as she pulled off her socks before sleep,
Millicent Clark turned away from her feet.
They both were too wide, like they came from great apes.
She’d never seen human feet come in these shapes.
Then...
She saw a sign at the end of her street
that promised a fix for her off-putting feet.
“The Part Mart,” it said, “is a place you can go
to swap out the parts that make you feel low.”
And so begins a series of visits with Doctor Parts. And on her journey, Millicent learns that she's more than just pieces. That improvements come with a cost.
Written by Bret Nelson (Manborg, Murder Garden) and illustrated by Pete Mitchell, The Part Mart is a story with an edge about accepting yourself for who you really are.
Millennial Nasties
By Ariel Powers-Schaub
Release Date: September 17, 2024
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Ariel Powers-Schaub Redefines the “Torture Porn” and Extreme Horror of the 2000s in her book Millennial Nasties: Analyzing a Decade of Brutal Horror Film Violence!
Torture porn, shock-for-shock’s sake, violence that doesn’t serve the plot, and characters you hate - what was going on in the 2000s in horror cinema? And why were audiences hungry for it? In Millennial Nasties, writer, podcaster, and film critic Ariel Powers-Schaub takes a critical but appreciative look at an oft-ignored subset of horror.
"I wanted to read analyses of these films I love. But I couldn't find much, so I decided I'd have to write it!" says author Ariel Powers-Schaub.
Millennial Nasties dissects the English-language horror films of the 2000s and the cultural events they were responding to. Processing tragedy and war throughout the world, keeping pace with films from other countries, and swinging wildly away from the safe horror of the 1990s, the 2000s brought grisly kills and shocking gore to cinema audiences and home viewers. Films once dismissed as torture porn, their nasty slasher friends, and the remakes of this era have found a new home, and that home is a subgenre called Millennial Nasties.
“Ariel’s approach to the 2000s era of ‘Extreme’ horror hooked us immediately. Her ability to dive deep into the culture and societal influences that birthed this subgenre is something rare in genre nonfiction, and Millennial Nasties delivers!” says Sean Duregger, Managing Editor of Encyclopocalypse Publications.
A Vamp There Was
By Stanley Stepanic
Release Date: September 3, 2024
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Stanley Stepanic brings a mash-up of fiction and nonfiction with his book A Vamp There Was.
In 1920s Fredericksburg, Virginia, young country boy Middy Groves sets out on his own, working at a pickle factory and searching for a place for himself in a constantly changing town uncertain of its identity.
One day Middy finds himself drawn to a mysterious city girl with bobbed hair and eyes that seem to shine in the darkness from under her brimmed hat. Like some angel fallen from Heaven, he never seems to fully draw her attention, though she always leaves him with the strange phrase "You're too good for me."
Uncertain of her meaning, and slightly emboldened, Middy finds the girl in and out of his life, woven into the pastiche of a city stuck in the past yet thrown into the future. Where does she come from? Who is she? More importantly, why do the men she draws in with her beauty eventually fall to ruin?
When Middy learns the truth he finds the price of vengeance and the depths some men are willing allow themselves to go.
A Vamp There Was blurs fact and fiction through the lens of historical events and life in Fredericksburg in the 1920s. Complimenting the novella is an essay and biographies concerning the character type known as the vampire, or "vamp" for short, that first arose in American popular culture eventually becoming a true phenomenon by the 1910s through actress Theda Bara's depiction of the "vampire" in the 1915 film A Fool There Was.
Author Stanley Stepanic is a professor at the University of Virginia who teaches a popular course on vampires.
Amityville Death Toilet
By Brian G. Berry
Release Date: March 26, 2024
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Save some $$ and grab the Brian Berry Bundle!
A Special Mass Market Size Edition of the Official Novelization SRS Cinema's Amityville Death Toilet!
Gregg G. Allin has a semi-successful podcast exploring paranormal events. When Amityville is overrun with a spate of toilet murders leading back to the haunted house of yesteryear, Gregg wastes no time flying into town to get some answers. With Amityville's Mayor Dump demanding answers and an end to the killings, Gregg is perplexed because this Amityville house doesn't seem to be that scary. Looks are very deceiving, and, after a toilet in the house mutilates Sebastian the caretaker, Gregg is forced to act. What ensues is a battle like no other where Gregg is pushed to the very limits of hell and beyond in an effort to save the town...and the world!
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NEW RELEASES
Blue Sunshine
By Stanley Stepanic
Release Date: February 27, 2024
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Working from Jeff Lieberman's original draft for BLUE SUNSHINE, which was actually set in 1970s New York, Ken Johnson’s novel reflects the grittiness and social turmoil of the times.
It started off as a great party—just eight of them in a ski-lodge in upstate New York. But then the last guest, Frannie, arrived. There was something wrong with Frannie’s hair. And something very wrong with his eyes. And what he did to three of the girls was too hideous for description...
That was just the start. After that, things began to happen all over New York—ugly things: psychosis, insanity, murder—and no-one could find an explanation. The police were helpless—because they didn’t know that behind all the grisly happenings lay a single, uncontrollable horror. A horror called BLUE SUNSHINE...
BLUE SUNSHINE is the Edgar Lansbury/Joseph Beruh Production starring Alice Ghostley, Zalman King, Deborah Winters and Mark Goddard based on an original screenplay by Jeff Lieberman.
That’s all I have for you today. We are working on so much more, so get ready for some fun announcements in the coming weeks.
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Until next time,
Sean Duregger
Managing Editor, Encyclopocalypse Publications
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Very excited for Millennial Nasties and Amityville Death Toilet