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Jonathan Rigby’s English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema is the first book to trace the rise and fall of the Gothic genre from its nineteenth century beginnings to the present day, encompassing the lost films of the silent era, the Karloff and Lugosi chillers of the 1930s, the lurid classics from Hammer’s house of horro and the explicit shockers of the 1970s.

This collection of Pedro Almodovar’s most critically acclaimed films is an ideal way to get your Spanish cinema collection started. The films in the collection are:

Bad Education (La Mala Educacion)

In the early 60’s two boys, Ignacio and Enrique, discover love, movies and fear in a Catholic school. Father Manolo, the school principal, plays a big part in these discoveries. The three characters’ lives cross paths twice again, in the late 70’s and in 1980, with stunning and deadly consequences.

Talk To Her (Hable Con Ella)

Lydia and Alicia, a bullfighter and a young ballet dancer, are both in comas. Two men, Benigno and Marco, are brought together by the shared bond of caring for them. The lives of the four characters will flow in all directions, past, present and future, dragging all of them towards an unsuspected destiny.

All About My Mother (TodoSobreMi Madre)

Manuela has just lost her son, Esteban, in a car accident. Esteban’s number one obsession in life was to meet his father who had left Manuela before he was born. As a kind of pentinence Manuela goes in search of him only to find that his new name is Lola.

Live Flesh (Carne Tremula)

A fatal coincidence brings three men and a woman together in a room; two cops, a young reveller and a beautiful woman who eventually make things worse. They meet again two years laterbut their respective roles will never be the same.

Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down (Atame!)

Ricky is released from a mental hospital, and knows exactly what he wants to do. He hunts down Marina, a porn film star, who he wants as his wife. She is reluctant, so he ties her up… Will this approach endear him to her?

Much praised and much missed after its premature cancellation, Firefly is the first SF TV series to be conceived by Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy and cocreator of Angel. Set five centuries in the future, it is a show where the mysterious personal pasts of the crew of the tramp spaceship Serenity continually surface. In fact, it’s a Western in space where the losers in a Civil War are heading out to a barren frontier. Mal Reynolds is a man embittered by the war, yet whose love of his comrades perpetually dents his cynicism - even in the 14 episodes that exist we see him warm to the bubbly young mechanic Kaylee, the preacher Book, the idealistic doctor Simon, even to the often demented River, Simon’s sister, the psychic result of malign experiments.

Firefly is also about adult emotional relationships, for example Kaylee’s crush on Simon, the happy marriage of Mal’s second officer Zoe and the pilot Wash, the disastrous erotic stalemate between Mal and the courtesan Inara. Individual episodes deal with capers going vaguely wrong, or threats narrowly circumvented; character and plot arcs were starting to emerge when the show was cancelled.

From the very first episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer and throughout the course of its run of almost a decade, the show set the standard for quality television entertainment. Picking up where the relatively disappointing film left off, the show followed Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) on her quest to rid the world of vampires, demons, and various other evil beings. A small band of friends were there to help her out, which included the vampire convert Angel (David Boreanaz), vampire and ambivalent love interest Spike (James Marsters), popular girl Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter), regular guy Xander (Nicholas Brendon), and everyone’s favourite intellectual Willow (Alyson Hannigan).

This collection includes all seven seasons of the show and over 100 hours of vampire bashing, allowing fans to trace the evolution of Buffy’s relationships, fashion sense, and success at battling her true demon: her strong desire to be normal.