TY - BOOK AU - Perron,Bernard TI - The world of scary video games: a study in videoludic horror T2 - Approaches to digital game studies SN - 9781501316197 (pbk.) : U1 - 794.8 23 PY - 2018/// CY - London PB - Bloomsbury Academic KW - Video games KW - Psychological aspects KW - Horror in mass media KW - Hobbies and Games KW - eflch KW - ukslc N2 - As for film and literature, the horror genre has been very popular in the video game. 'The World of Scary Video Games' provides a comprehensive overview of the videoludic horror, dealing with the games labelled as 'survival horror' as well as the mainstream and independent works associated with the genre. It examines the ways in which video games have elicited horror, terror and fear since 'Haunted House' in 1981 ER -