University of Michigan Press passed along word that Bernard Perron's book Silent Hill: The Terror Engine will be available in January (Paperback: ISBN 978-0-472-05162-5, Ebook: ISBN 978-0-472-02783-5) for $25.95. Silent Hill: The Terror Engine is is described as a close analysis of the first three Silent Hill games and a general look at the whole series, but told from a player's perspective. Perron situates looks at the history of the horror survival game genre and compares the series with important forerunners susch as Alone in the Dark and Resident Evil. He also details the designer's cinematic and literary influences, and explores its use of imagery, sound, music, game mechanics, fiction, artifacts, and gameplay emotions.

"Not only does Perron analyze the terrain of an important and well-known cross-media franchise that is game-centered, he also does it from a player-centric point of view. This is a book emblematic of a maturation of game studies and will be of interest not just to game scholars but also to those engaging academically with transmedial articulations of the conventions and reinventions of horror." -Tanya Krzywinska, Brunel University, United Kingdom

You can learn more about the book by visiting press.umich.edu .