Looking to start a series? Read the start of five different series ranging from science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Grab something cold to drink, dive in, and find a series to pass the hot days of summer. 1. AabiLynn's Dragon Rite #0: A fantasy sword and sorcery heroic book. Cara, a young slave girl, has one chance at freedom and to find a family that loves her. She must be chosen by a baby dragon and form a bond like no other. Can Cara select a dragon egg and link with the baby dragon within or is she doomed to return to her loveless existence? Crippled from birth, Cara was sold by her father to cover his debt. A slave with no rights, she exists in bleakness and despair. A chance encounter could change all of that for her. 2. Shades of Gray #1 & #2: Dive deep into this dystopian science fiction book series with the first two novels and unravel a mystery plaguing this parallel world. Explore a doomed planet in this dystopian fiction where a female legal assassin ( Life Closer ) known as the Phoenix must partner with a rogue experiment known as the Pandora Project. The Phoenix has discovered that someone murdered her mother and she will stop at nothing to discover their identity and take her revenge. In this post apocalyptic fantasy, Pandora has no memory beyond a year ago and she is hunted by Life Closers, bounty hunters, and killer robots know as Un-Men. Can the Phoenix help her discover her past or will the Phoenix kill Pandora when she no longer needs her help? Pandora is no pushover and a mystery surrounds her very existence. Pandora will either bring about a Twilight that is the first rays of dawn or Pandora will bring about a Twilight that will usher in darkness forever. Apocalyptic science fiction books about the bounds of friendship in the face of adversity and mistrust. In the post-apocalyptic wasteland of Noir, a mega-city half the size of the United States, corporations govern the people and profit is above all. A cyberpunk style world where technology is more advanced in a desperate attempt to save the planet from destruction. 3. Beauty of the Beast #1 The Mystic Rose: Part A: The Flower, The Sword, And The Kiss: A fantasy magical realms action adventure book. Beauty and the Beast with a twist. What if the woman was the one cursed? Pluck, a young girl, saves her prince from a horrible hex but is cursed in his place. She takes on the appearance of a dreaded beast called a Necrom, a cat-like humanoid. Pluck needs the Kiss, the prince's first kiss to end her curse. Can she receive the Kiss or will her dispised appearance only bring her more heartache? Pluck has other things to worry about. She and her prince have shipwrecked in a place where the dreaded Necroms live. Pluck might just need to sacrifice herself to save her prince. 4. Monster of Monsters #1 Part 1 & Part 2: Science fiction horror action adventure book. A neglected young girl, Kein, stumbles across a hidden cave where something monstrous lurks. Desperate for affection and attention, the young girl embraces the monster, believing to have found love and acceptance. The young girl now a woman is lured into a dangerous world where monsters are contestants in a deadly game where desires and wishes can be won in a game that no one has won. Can Kein find the family she so desperately wants or will she be food for the very monsters that she wants to embrace? 5. AaBack's Grimm- Dark Fantasy Fairy Tale #1 Tale Of Two Worlds: The Wizard, The Battle Mage, And The Werewolf & #2 Friends Reunited: The Janus Beast, The Rose Beauty, And The Cursed Duckling: In this epic fantasy fairy tale book, Jane is cursed in the normal world. No one can remember her past five minutes. Jane is pulled into a fairy tale world where the Beast from Beauty and the Beast exists and where everyone remembers her. Has Jane found the perfect home or is the World of Grimm holding something deadly for her?

The Comics Journal, which is renowned for its in-depth interviews, comics criticism, and thought-provoking editorials, features Gary Groth in frank and often hilarious discussion with the satirist and children’s book author Tomi Ungerer. Ungerer talks about the entire trajectory of his life and career: growing up in France during the Nazi occupation, creating controversial work, and being blacklisted by the American Library Association. This issue, the first in its new twice-a-year format, covers the “new mainstream” in American comics ― how the marketplace and overall perception of the medium has drastically shifted since the “graphic novel boom” of the early 2000s and massive hits like Persepolis, Fun Home, and Smile. It also includes sketchbook pages from French-born cartoonist Antoine Cossé’ an introduction to homoerotic gag cartoons out of the U.S. Navy; and Your Black Friend cartoonist Ben Passmore’s examination of comics and gentrification.

Giving deserved attention to nearly 150 neglected films, this book covers early sound era features, serials and documentaries with genre elements of horror, science fiction and fantasy, from major and minor studios and independents. Full credits, synopses, critical analyses and contemporary reviews are provided for The Blue Light, The Cat Creeps, College Scandal, Cosmic Voyage, The Dragon Murder Case, The Haunted Barn, Lost Gods, Murder in the Red Barn, The New Gulliver, Return of the Terror, Seven Footprints to Satan, S.O.S. Iceberg, While the Patient Slept, The White Hell of Pitz Palu and many others.

Focusing on Netflix’s child and family-orientated platform exclusive content, this book offers the first exploration of a controversial genre cycle of dark science fiction, horror, and fantasy television under Netflix’s "Family Watch Together TV" tag. Using a ground-breaking mix of methods including audience research, interface, and textual analysis, the book demonstrates how Netflix is producing dark family telefantasy content that is both reshaping child and family-friendly TV genres and challenging earlier broadcast TV models around child-appropriate family viewing. It illuminates how Netflix encourages family audiences to "watch together" through intergenerational dynamics that work on and offscreen. The chapters in this book explore how this "Netflixication" of family television developed across landmark examples including Stranger Things, A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, and even Squid Game. The book outlines how Netflix is consolidating a new dark family terrain in the streaming sector, which is unsettling older concepts of family viewing, leading to considerable audience and critical confusion around target audiences and viewer expectations. This book will be of particular interest to upper-level undergraduates, graduates, and scholars in the fields of television studies, screen genre studies, childhood studies, and cultural studies.