In Dominion, victory is within your grasp – literally. As a deck building game, your resources, victory points, and capabilities all reside in your hand of cards. Your deck is your Dominion. “It starts out a small sad collection of Estates and Coppers, but you hope by the end of the game it will be brimming with Gold, Provinces, and the inhabitants and structures of your castle and kingdom.” — (From the Dominion rule book). Each turn, players have the opportunity to improve their deck by playing action cards and buying new cards. The trick is finding the right balance between each type of card in your hand and hoping it works in your favor when the game ends. At that time, the player with the most victory points is the victor!
From the publisher:
You are a monarch, like your parents before you, a ruler of a small pleasant kingdom of rivers and evergreens. Unlike your parents, however, you have hopes and dreams! You want a bigger and more pleasant kingdom, with more rivers and a wider variety of trees. You want a Dominion!In all directions lie fiefs, freeholds, fiefdoms. All are small bits of land, controlled by petty lords and verging on anarchy. You will bring civilization to these people, uniting them under your banner.But wait! It must be something in the air; several other monarchs have had the exact same idea. You must race to get as much of the unclaimed land as possible, fending them off along the way. To do this you will hire minions, construct buildings, spruce up your castle, and fill the coffers of your treasury. Your parents wouldn’t be proud, but your grandparents, on your mother’s side, would be delighted.
— Rio Grande Games
Many thanks to UNT Gamers for gifting this title to the UNT Media Library!
If you like Dominion, you may also enjoy these titles, also available at UNT Media Library:
Zombies are very much overdone, but when something gets it right, it’s downright satisfying. Each decision you make opens and closes a full tree of effects. The ripples of your decisions are immediately felt by the members in your party. It’s all real heavy stuff, but I swear it’s fun! Telltale Games have made their name on this brand of point and click adventuring, but this is probably their best effort thus far. The Media Library has the game on both PS4 and Xbox One.
Camp Crystal Lake. It sounds like a pleasant enough place. Clear waters. Fresh nature air. A nice campfire with some s’mores and ghost stories. But if you’re a camp counselor, please, for the love of all things, keep an eye on the flailing kid in the water who clearly can’t swim. His mom is going to be very very very upset. This film spawned a litter of sequels, a good/bad video game for the NES that had some top notch music, and an iconic villain who loves to “Ch, Ch, Ch, Ha, Ha, Ha” before they kill you. The Media Library has the original HERE and you can find the rest of the sequels on our catalog HERE.
What’s scarier than the amount of Buffy the Vampire Slayer we have in our collection is the titular vampire slayer herself.
“I’m the thing that monsters have nightmares about.”
Who is this Buffy anyway? And why is she so scary?
“I’m like a superhero or something.”
Buffy is like a superhero. At first, she may seem like just a girl in high school, but she is actually one of a long line of “Chosen Ones”: young girls who are chosen to rid the world of vampires and other evil ilk. They are ruthless in this charge: highly skilled, highly trained, and unyielding.
Well, except Buffy fell in love with a vampire (or two). (And this is loooong before that whole Bella-Edward thing too… You can tell because of how 90s the promotional photos are.)
Love is eternal. Kind of.
Together with the help of her Watcher and her Scooby Gang, Buffy kicked butt on television for seven seasons, but the story continues in the form of graphic novels. The show has everything you could ever want for Halloween Season: vampires (of course), ghouls, zombies, and demons of all varieties. Then there’s the really scary stuff, like reliving high school and looking back on questionable fashion choices.
If, after seven whole seasons, you still haven’t had enough, we have the eighth season as a motion comic, and Willis Library has the graphic novels available too. If you want, you can also go back and watch the original movie as well, with Kristy Swanson as a different Buffy, or you can, as most Buffy fans, ignore it. It’s not really part of the canon.
Be sure to check out the specifically Halloween episodes (Season 2 Episode 6: “Halloween”, Season 4 Episode 4: “Fear, Itself”, and Season 6 Episode 6: “All the Way”) and watch for a post all about Halloween episodes from a bunch of different shows later this month!
Portals to other worlds and dimensions of unspeakable horror have opened up all over the city of Arkham and monsters are escaping out into the streets. It’s the 1920s and people around the town are disappearing, going insane, and getting not just murdered — dismembered. A few town members are resolved to find out what’s going on and put a stop to it.
Based on the lore of H. P. Lovecraft, Arkham Horror is a cooperative game — unless you’re playing by yourself, because you totally can (It’s for 1-6 players). If you’re not able to close all of the portals in time, you go face-to-face against one of the Ancient Ones… and there’s a good chance you just lose right away because they’re THE ANCIENT ONES! And they’ll make you lose your mind! Or devour you. Or worse.
Couple the game with this contemporary silent film based on another classic from H. P. Lovecraft:
Your pulse starts racing. Your body heats up. It feels like you’re about to burst into flames. Your bones twist and crack and stretch painfully. Fur sprouts painfully from your skin from head to toe. What’s that noise? It’s a piercing howl… and it’s coming from you! You are… a werewolf!
That’s what happens when you’re running around the Yorkshire moors with your buddy after the locals warned you about it, and they weren’t exactly subtle.
An American Werewolf in London is a classic creature feature with Oscar-winning movie effects and awesome makeup. It’s as funny as it is gorey and spooky.
If you’d like to check out a few more wolfy creature features, we have a few more titles for you to enjoy:
Time travel turns to horror in this Spanish film. Timecrimes was filmed in Spain, during a time period where Guillermo del Toro’s infamous Spanish horror films reigned and thus helped its own popularity. Known for its low budget but complex concept and dark humor, this film’s twists and turns discusses the complexity of attempting to amend lies in love affair with more lies and dark actions.
House (ハウス) is a 1977 Japanese horror film by Nobuhiko Obayashi. It was originally scripted after the movie Jaws (1975) had just come out. Film-makers were inspired to make similar films after Jaw’s great reception. I would not say, though, that House is anything like Jaws. It involves a young girl who after learning that she will be sharing the summer with her father’s new girlfriend, she invites some friends to join her at her aunt’s house instead. With a sick aunt, a bloodthirsty cat, and evil spirits lurking around, the girls find that it might have been better to stay at home. Obayashi wanted the film to focus on the perception and imagination of the child. He therefore used multiple special effects that were purposely made to look fake or created by a child.
Suspiria (Latin for “sighs”) is a 1977 Italian horror film about an American student enrolled in a German dance academy. A series of bizarre incidents and brutal murders puts the academy in chaos. This film is a critically acclaimed for many reasons. For one, the score was composed by a progressive rock band Goblin, and versions of Goblins music was recreated for years to come. Another reason for its popularity is it’s style in cinematography and coloring. For example, its design emphasized vivid colors, particularly red, creating a deliberately unrealistic, nightmarish setting. It was one of the final feature films to be processed in Technicolor.
A girl walks home alone at night- Iranian- DVD 16034
The first Iranian Vampire Western ever made. The film made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014, based on the short film director Ana Lily Amirpour wrote and directed by the same title. The film follows the lonesome footsteps of a vampire known as “the girl” who sleeks through the night in the Iranian ghost town known as “Bad City” …occasionally surfing the streets on her skate board and listening to ’80s Euro-Pop. The film takes place in a fictional Iranian setting or “Bad City”, though actually filmed in California. A joyful mash up of genre, archetype, and iconography, its prolific influences span spaghetti westerns, graphic novels, horror films and the Iranian New Wave.
Why, yes… it IS indeed a small world after all! But please – no singing. And in this tiny world there are 14 different fantasy races, including dwarves, wizards, giants, and orcs! Each player gets to pick a fantasy race as well as a special power, such as Heroic, Berserk, or Alchemist. With a good combination and a bit of luck, players conquer a whole bunch of regions on the board and amass victory coins!
Since the world is soooooo small, each player’s civilization will reach a point where it just cannot go any further. There’s no more room! At that point, a player will put that particular civilization in decline, but don’t worry! That’s not the end of the game! Players then get to choose a new fantasy race and super power combo and keep going! The player with the most victory coins when all the turns are over is the winner!
From the publisher:
Small World™ is a fun, zany light-hearted civilization game in which 2-5 players vie for conquest and control of a board that is simply too small to accommodate them all!Picking the right combination of fantasy races and unique special powers, players must rush to expand their empires – often at the expense of their weaker neighbors.Yet they must also know when to push their own over-extended civilization into decline to ride a new one to victory.
— Days of Wonder
Many thanks to Days of Wonder for gifting this title to the UNT Media Library!
If you like Small World, you may also enjoy these titles, also available at UNT Media Library:
“You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into… the Twilight Zone.”
The Twilight Zone is creator Rod Serling’s surreal examination of society and the human psyche, but enough has been written about this show so I’ll just say this: Watch it! This show is weird and great, and the amount of familiar faces and names you’ll see is pretty amazing. Also, this:
“Excuse me, I had requested a vegetarian in-flight meal.”
You can find the Media Library’s Twilight Zone collection HERE
Ever wanted to explore a haunted mansion with 5 of your friends? Now’s your chance! But beware, your friends won’t stay friendly for long. Betrayal at House on the Hill is a tabletop game meant to keep you on your toes by unveiling the mansion’s secrets as you progress, but once the haunt starts, you’ll need to navigate yourself away from a traitor in your group. Who will it be? It’ll probably be you, in which case, betraying your friends has never been so fun!
The Media Library has two copies of this game available to checkout. Like, take it out of the library for three days and play it in the comfort of your home, checkout. That’s right! There are limited quantities, you’ll want to come check it out soon before one of your friends checks it out and doesn’t invite you over to play, the traitor.
Zombies are very much overdone, but when something gets it right, it’s downright satisfying. Each decision you make opens and closes a full tree of effects. The ripples of your decisions are immediately felt by the members in your party. It’s all real heavy stuff, but I swear it’s fun! Telltale Games have made their name on this brand of point and click adventuring, but this is probably their best effort thus far. The Media Library has the game on both 
Camp Crystal Lake. It sounds like a pleasant enough place. Clear waters. Fresh nature air. A nice campfire with some s’mores and ghost stories. But if you’re a camp counselor, please, for the love of all things, keep an eye on the flailing kid in the water who clearly can’t swim. His mom is going to be very very very upset. This film spawned a litter of sequels, a good/bad video game for the NES that had some 
That’s what happens when you’re running around the Yorkshire moors with your buddy after the locals warned you about it, and they weren’t exactly subtle.
Time travel turns to horror in this Spanish film. Timecrimes was filmed in Spain, during a time period where Guillermo del Toro’s infamous Spanish horror films reigned and thus helped its own popularity. Known for its low budget but complex concept and dark humor, this film’s twists and turns discusses the complexity of attempting to amend lies in love affair with more lies and dark actions.
House (ハウス) is a 1977 Japanese horror film by Nobuhiko Obayashi. It was originally scripted after the movie Jaws (1975) had just come out. Film-makers were inspired to make similar films after Jaw’s great reception. I would not say, though, that House is anything like Jaws. It involves a young girl who after learning that she will be sharing the summer with her father’s new girlfriend, she invites some friends to join her at her aunt’s house instead. With a sick aunt, a bloodthirsty cat, and evil spirits lurking around, the girls find that it might have been better to stay at home. Obayashi wanted the film to focus on the perception and imagination of the child. He therefore used multiple special effects that were purposely made to look fake or created by a child.
Suspiria (Latin for “sighs”) is a 1977 Italian horror film about an American student enrolled in a German dance academy. A series of bizarre incidents and brutal murders puts the academy in chaos. This film is a critically acclaimed for many reasons. For one, the score was composed by a progressive rock band Goblin, and versions of Goblins music was recreated for years to come. Another reason for its popularity is it’s style in cinematography and coloring. For example, its design emphasized vivid colors, particularly red, creating a deliberately unrealistic, nightmarish setting. It was one of the final feature films to be processed in Technicolor.
“You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into… the Twilight Zone.”
The Twilight Zone is creator Rod Serling’s surreal examination of society and the human psyche, but enough has been written about this show so I’ll just say this: Watch it! This show is weird and great, and the amount of familiar faces and names you’ll see is pretty amazing. Also, this:
Ever wanted to explore a haunted mansion with 5 of your friends? Now’s your chance! But beware, your friends won’t stay friendly for long. 