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? Millennial Nasties takes a critical but appreciative look at an oft-ignored subset of horror. This book 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.

Foreword by Zoë Rose Smith, founder and owner of Zobo With A Shotgun and EIC of Ghouls Magazine.

From the best-selling author of Courage Under Fire, comes an unforgettable journey into the raw, untamed heart of America's dark underbelly.

The Ballad of Billy Badass follows the life of an enigmatic drifter caught in the relentless currents of fate and violence. Spanning decades, from the sweltering heat of a Michigan summer to the blood-soaked jungles of Vietnam. Delve deep into the psyche of a man who was made by his scars, and whose rebellion against the world only hardens as he moves from small-time hustles to something altogether more dangerous.

As haunting as it is electrifying, The Ballad of Billy Badass captures the spirit of a bygone era-a world of violent redemption, and the raw fight for survival.

Written in a bold, experimental style, The Ballad of Billy Badass is a love letter to the silent anti-heroes of classic cinema. Patrick Sheane Duncan crafts a gripping ode to the renegades of old-those who walked the razor's edge between law and lawlessness.

Will Shaw doesn't have much time. Something evil is targeting the children on the Cherokee reservation. A dark and sinister wraith called a raven mocker, its powers are vast and its motives unknown. Will must find a way to destroy this seemingly indestructible foe while a secret society of skinwalkers called The Spirit Council believes him to be the one responsible.

Will is a black jaguar skinner, tasked to unravel the nefarious plot. He's also determined to settle the score with Janae Jones. The last time he saw her she tried to kill him. Still, he can't help being in love with her. They will be caught in the heart of an epic showdown between good and evil as the dark wraith hunts for a special child of prophecy in order to steal his soul. Will can't let that happen. It's going to be a messy battle.

Nobody knows exactly how many generations have passed since the catastrophic Event, leaving most of North America a wasteland roamed by the deformed, the doomed and the damned. But far beneath the poisoned terrain, an inhuman species of subterranean colonists has a plan to repopulate the planet. Their oily black fur glistens in the darkness. Their telepathic communication argues the details. Their long thick tails and razor-sharp incisors twitch with anticipation. And for a roughneck salvage team who has accepted a warlord's lucrative offer to raid an abandoned city, what appeared to be an easy score is now a gore-spattered battle for survival that may breed the ultimate horror.

From Brad Carter - whose killer shark, horny Bigfoot, butchered hooker and zombie apocalypse novelizations include CRUEL JAWS, NIGHT OF THE DEMON, MARDI GRAS MASSACRE and VIRUS: HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD -comes this viscera-sprayed saga inspired by an original screenplay by Claudio Fragasso, Rossella Drudi and Bruno Mattei that became the basis for Mattei's notorious trash classic RATS: NIGHT OF TERROR.

Deep within the African jungle nation of Daroka, Marsh Industries' biochemical research facility is developing a classified serum known as the HOPE Project. But in the lab's

Antares Module, where human test subjects are kept in locked cells, something has gone horrifically wrong. The dead are alive. Aggressive. Hungry for flesh. And the infection is spreading. Now a team of heavily armed American mercenaries, a French female journalist, and a group of unsuspecting missionaries have all entered the plague zone. In a third world hellhole already engulfed by political unrest and corporate greed, can anyone survive a rapidly decomposing nightmare of uncontainable viral carnage?

From Brad Carter - whose shark chomping, dick ripping, whore gore and vermin mating novelizations include CRUEL JAWS, NIGHT OF THE DEMON, MARDI GRAS MASSACRE and RATS: NIGHT OF TERROR - comes this guts-splattered apocalypse epic inspired by the original mega-budget screenplay vision of Claudio Fragasso & Rossella Drudi that eventually became the low-budget basis for Bruno Mattei's zombie trash classic HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD.

Only their sick sexual hang-ups could bring young newlyweds Danny and Shirley Carpenter to the house at 9 Devil Lane. For it is here, in this musty old mansion, that the necromancer Madame Heles and her sensual assistant Tanya perform their strange rites of the erotic occult. There will be those who serve, those who must be serviced, and when the clock strikes midnight, the dark ceremony of carnal desire can officially begin. But will this nightmare of ecstasy unleash the ultimate torrent of lewd hungers or reveal the most depraved secrets of all?

First published in 1972, The Only House follows the central plot and characters of Wood's adult feature NECROMANIA: A TALE OF WEIRD LOVE! with jaw-dropping detours into additional sordid scenarios. It is a literary odyssey of feverish melodrama, pink angora sweaters, and perversely delectable filth that could come only from the mind of Edward D. Wood, Jr.

This book was made in collaboration with Severin Films.