Pop-up Book of Phobias FROM THE PUBLISHER
Fear of heights, fear of spiders, fear of flying, fear of death—everyone is afraid of something. And these pop-ups place you in the hot seat—whether it's the dentist's chair as the drill comes spinning toward you; looking over the edge of a skyscraper whose sheer face plummets thousands of feet to the sidewalk far below; or the window seat of a plane as the oxygen mask deploys, your drink spills, and the horizon line shifts to an angle that is suddenly, terribly wrong . . .
Brought to life by outrageously macabre artwork and startlingly innovative pop-ups, The Pop-up Book of Phobias is an engineering marvel and cult classic in the making—an offbeat holiday treasure sure to become this season's most talked-about gift book.Fear of heights, fear of spiders, fear of flying, fear of death—everyone is afraid of something. And these pop-ups place you in the hot seat—whether it's the dentist's chair as the drill comes spinning toward you; looking over the edge of a skyscraper whose sheer face plummets thousands of feet to the sidewalk far below; or the window seat of a plane as the oxygen mask deploys, your drink spills, and the horizon line shifts to an angle that is suddenly, terribly wrong . . .
Fear of heights, fear of spiders, fear of flying, fear of death—everyone is afraid of something. And these pop-ups place you in the hot seat—whether it's the dentist's chair as the drill comes spinning toward you; looking over the edge of a skyscraper whose sheer face plummets thousands of feet to the sidewalk far below; or the window seat of a plane as the oxygen mask deploys, your drink spills, and the horizon line shifts to an angle that issuddenly, terribly wrong . . .
Brought to life by outrageously macabre artwork and startlingly innovative pop-ups, The Pop-up Book of Phobias is an engineering marvel and cult classic in the making—an offbeat holiday treasure sure to become this season's most talked-about gift book.
SYNOPSIS
Fear of heights, fear of spiders, fear of flying, fear of death—everyone is afraid of something. And these pop-ups place you in the hot seat—whether it's the dentist's chair as the drill comes spinning toward you; looking over the edge of a skyscraper whose sheer face plummets thousands of feet to the sidewalk far below; or the window seat of a plane as the oxygen mask deploys, your drink spills, and the horizon line shifts to an angle that is suddenly, terribly wrong . . .
Brought to life by outrageously macabre artwork and startlingly innovative pop-ups, The Pop-up Book of Phobias is an engineering marvel and cult classic in the making—an offbeat holiday treasure sure to become this season's most talked-about gift book.
FROM THE CRITICS
Paper
For the special maladjusted someone in your life, The Pop-up Book of Phobias depicts 10 common irrational fears. Balvis Rubess's illustrations are appropriately sinister (no fuzzy caterpillars here), and Matthew Reinhart, a paper sculptor, is clearly at the cutting edge of pop-up technology: An airplane tray table comes loose as an oxygen mask drops down and the farmlands outside the window start to spin (aerophobia, fear of flying); you look up from the bottom of a grave at a shoveful of dirt about to land on your face (necrophobia, fear of death). Valium not included.
Magazine Staff People
It's one thing to read about what frightens you. Now imagine seeing it—a dentist, perhaps, with drill extended—made real in 3-D. Ooooh, scary. But funny too, which is the point of these cleverly conceived, brilliantly executed displays of neurotic horrors.
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