{"product_id":"love-never-dies-isbn-9780807024959","title":"Love Never Dies","description":"\u003cb\u003eA romance editor looks for love where you’d least expect it—and discovers what our favorite horror films can tell us about sex, society, and ourselves\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf \u003ci\u003eSinners\u003c\/i\u003e and the 1999 cult classic \u003ci\u003eThe Mummy\u003c\/i\u003e taught Emma Cole anything in the year she spent bingeing scary movies, it’s that we love to swoon, sweat, and scream. We seem to crave the uncanny and the transgressive. Emma would know: Her day job as a Harlequin book editor revolves around steamy stories that ruffle feathers and rip bodices. In \u003ci\u003eLove Never Dies\u003c\/i\u003e, she shows how our favorite horror films flirt with familiar tropes and themes to give us romantic subplots that are just as spine-tingling.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmma takes readers behind the scenes of films like Tod Browning’s \u003ci\u003eDracula\u003c\/i\u003e and Josh Ruben’s \u003ci\u003eHeart Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e, exploring how and why movies blur the lines of horror and romance. The books dives into\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The “Dark Moment” and how it signals an HEA (Happily Ever After)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Why \u003ci\u003enot \u003c\/i\u003ehaving a lover (spoiler alert) saved Jamie Lee Curtis’s Laurie Strode in \u003ci\u003eHalloween\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eRosemary’s Baby\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eInterview with the Vampire\u003c\/i\u003e, and Gothic horror’s comeback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e How romance, especially monster romance, is often a stand-in for uncomfortable truths \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom vampires and monsters to slashers and psychological thrillers, \u003ci\u003eLove Never Dies \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the enthralling nature of horror romance films that are full of heart. It’s just that sometimes, those hearts are on the outside.“Emma Cole has assembled a macabre catalogue of films for your next date night. \u003ci\u003eLove Never Dies\u003c\/i\u003e is a bloody love letter to those horrors that have drenched the silver screen over the decades. The Happily Ever After here for dear readers is a comprehensive list of grisly films that pluck on our heartstrings . . . only to rip the whole organ out and hold it up to the movie projector’s light.”\u003cbr\u003e—Clay McLeod Chapman, author of \u003ci\u003eDevil Inside\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmma Cole\u003c\/b\u003e is an editor at Harlequin and a horror film enthusiast, having studied film and communications at the University of Windsor before completing the Book \u0026amp; Magazine Publishing program at Centennial College and working at several publishers in the editorial department. She has written about film and genre for \u003ci\u003eGamut Magazine, Night Tide, Film East\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eReactor\u003c\/i\u003e, and she volunteers as the Notes and Queries editor for the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Popular Romance Studies\u003c\/i\u003e. Emma lives in Ontario with her family and shelves upon shelves of movies. You can find her at various places on the internet as @EditrixEmma.","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48532166148325,"sku":"NP9780807024959","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/love-never-dies-isbn-9780807024959","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}