Before you is a house. A large house. A house of creaky floors. A house of long corridors. A house of rooms drowned in shadow. A house of dust caked carpets and candle smoke stains, stretching along the walls like grimey fingers. A house that no living thing should ever enter. Yet here you are. You and the stale wind. You and the miles from civilization. You and a house that moans, a house that towers so high that glimmers from the windows look like stars in the night.

And there, before you, is a strange hole. There is a book in the strange hole. It is cold to the touch. Do you open the book? Do you open the door? Are you brave enough? Welcome to… MANSION.

A collaboration between Fangamer and Lost in Cult, this new anthology, The Horror, will examine the foundational hits, cult classics, indie nightmares and obscure curiosities of gaming. The first volume is MANSION, which concerns itself with creepy castles, unkind estates and cursed digital architecture. Will you enter?


Works

The Horror: MANSION

Specifications

  • 270+ Pages

  • Casebound hardcover

  • 210 X 297 (A4)

  • Hardback section sewn book with striped green head and tail bands

  • Black edge printing

  • Glow-in-the-dark cover title

Featured Writers

MANSION features over 200 pages of frights from some of the best artists and writers in gaming. Including: Siren Head creator Trevor Henderson, Citizen Sleeper creator Gareth Damien Martin, Plastiboo, ThorHighHeels, Jenn Frank, Pippin Barr, David Wolinsky, Gita Jackson, Connor Willumsen, Bloodberry Tart, Mike Drucker, Ashley Esqueda, Cameron Kunzelman and more.

Classic Scares

Horror starts from the foundations up. The blueprints that have given us horror games. The inspirations behind our modern nightmares. This volume contains interviews, essays and histories of classics like Resident Evil, Mystery House, Alone in the Dark, The 7th Guest, Clock Tower, Anatomy, Rule of Rose, House of the Dead, Haunted House, Sweet Home, Amnesia, Koudelka, D, Haunting Ground, Scratches and much, much more.

Indie Frights

Additionally, MANSION will feature art and galleries from, and inspired by, all the games that go bump in the night. On top of the classics and the unsung, MANSION will also feature a series of profiles on recent independent horror games and the creators behind them such as Fear and Hunger, World of Horror, Faith, Iron Lung, Alisa and more. 

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