Now also free @
B&N (also
UK).
I'll add that the 1st of the full-length books is out,
Cult Horror Movies: Discover the 33 Best Scary, Suspenseful, Gory, and Monstrous Cinema Classics, which I bought via
Kobo last week (pre-discounted to $4.99 and further couponable!) and I can give it a definite recommend.
There's a good range of stuff from the very well-known (e.g.
Psycho and
Night of the Living Dead), to the rather obscure (e.g.
I Married A Monster From Outer Space and
Martin, an early George Romero work about a maybe-vampire), to foreign film classics (e.g.
Godzilla and
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari), and the essays which I've read thus far have been very informative and interesting and insightful regarding not just the stuff in the actual films, but also what influenced or went into the making of them (e.g. for
An American Werewolf in London, he also talks a bit about the impact of other then-popular werewolf depictions in novels such as Gary Brandner's
The Howling, which IIRC we've received as a KDP Select freebie in the past) and also how they were received by audiences and critics at the time.
It turns out that these are mostly excerpted from Peary's classic "Cult Movies" books from the 80s and 90s (
Wikipedia entry), moderately updated (there's a mention of the Twilight film franchise), and he himself was a apparently a key figure in popularizing the notion of cult cinema.
Even though horror is really not my thing, I really liked this volume, enough that I've decided I'm definitely picking up the two others upcoming (for Crime and Midnight movies, which are much more the sort of stuff I'd actually watch), and I'm intrigued enough by his comments on some of the more suspense/sfnal-tilted films included in the Horror volume that I might actually go look some of them up.