Contemporary British Horror: reviewed and going cheap (£7.50)!

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My first book, Contemporary British Horror Cinema, is going cheap over at Edinburgh University Press. You can pick up one of the last few hardback editions for £7.50 each. This is anticipation of the paperback edition coming out at the beginning of next year (which will retail at around £20).

But is it worth £7.50? Barry Forshaw over at crimetime.co.uk seems to like it! Read his recent review below. Thanks Barry!
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• "I have to declare an interest: Johnny Walker's compellingly well researched study of the contemporary British horror film industry affords me a namecheck – one which is not necessarily critical, but suggests that I (like so many other writers on the genre) have a focus on British Gothic Cinema in my book of that title, with not a great deal of attention to current, edgier films. Johnny Walker is absolutely right, of course, and that imbalance is recalculated with this pleasingly fact-laden study, which draws together many strands — from commercial to the creative — which affect the contemporary industry (such as it is – in an ever more parlous state). The book is essential reading for any aficionado of the genre ..."