How to Survive a Horror Movie: All the Skills to Dodge the Kills

The screenwriter and producer behind Stephen King's It shares a hilarious, tongue-in-cheek survival guide that celebrates iconic horror movies both past and present!

Are you reading this in a cornfield, at a summer camp, or in an abandoned mental institution? Have you noticed that everything is poorly lit, or that music surges every time you open a door? If the answer is yes, you're probably trapped in a horror movie. But don't freak out-just read this book! With it you will learn how to overcome every obstacle found in scary films.

From Seth Grahame-Smith, bestselling author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and producer of Stephen King's It, comes a hilarious illustrated survival guide to the rules, clichés, monsters, and deadly mistakes of horror movies. Learn how to identify five types of slashers, escape a haunted house, defeat a killer doll, recognize ghosts, kill the living dead, handle vampires, survive an alien invasion, perform an exorcism, and face plenty of other familiar horror-movie nightmares.

• Learn the hilarious rules for staying alive when you're trapped with slashers, zombies, vampires, ghosts, killer dolls, haunted houses, aliens, witches, demons, and other scary-movie threats
• Get tongue-in-cheek survival tactics for haunted houses, evil objects, cemeteries, the living dead, vampires, alien invasions, supernatural curses, exorcisms, and even Satan himself
• Features spooky illustrations, a list of 100 must-see horror films, and an introduction by Nightmare on Elm Street's Wes Craven
• A funny, illustrated horror parody for slasher fans, movie buffs, Halloween obsessives, horror collectors, and anyone who loves spotting the clichés, rules, and recurring tropes of the genre

Don't be afraid: no vampire, zombie horde, cannibal hillbilly, Japanese vengeance ghost, or other horror movie monster can hurt you-as long as you have this book.