Midnight Premiere - Hardcover

Tom Piccirilli; Thomas F. Monteleone; Al Sarrantonio; T. M. Wright; Ed. Gorman; Linnea Quigley; Jack Ketchum; Lisa Morton; Ray Garton

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1587671468 ISBN 13: 9781587671463

Publisher: Cemetery Dance Publications, 2007

Synopsis

eaturing Jack Ketchum, Gary Braunbeck, Thomas F. Monteleone, Ray Garton, Brian Hodge, Ed Gorman, Al Sarrantonio, Mick Garris, and many others, these eighteen original tales celebrate Hollywood and the horror movie-going experience with affection, devotion, and fear. In Midnight Premiere you'll discover how many of these authors have worked in film as screenwriters, actors, and directors and put their particular experiences to use in showing you the dark underside of the Hollyweird dream and the LaLa Land facade.

The opening credits are about to roll.

Prepare yourself for the shocking and the illuminating, the strange and the fanciful...the real and the lies of celluloid that may well mean more to you than the truth.

And remember

All the many screaming folks they torment up on the big screen and across these pages...?

The leering mad smiles, yowling creatures, and the brandishing of sharp weapons...?

All the havoc and mayhem and anguish and horrors...?

They do it because they LOVE you.

Join a cast including Mick Garris (director of Stephen King's THE STAND and DESPERATION), Patrick Lussier (director of WHITE NOISE: THE LIGHT, DRACULA 2000), William Smith (actor in hundreds of classic B-films including RUN ANGEL RUN and GRAVE OF THE VAMPIRE), Kyra Schon (zombie-girl extraordinaire from NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD), the number one scream queen of all time Linnea Quigley, and many others as they return to the

About this title

From Booklist:

The authors of these 18 horror-movie horror stories include plenty who work in the horror-movie industry, not all of them as scripters. B-movie-queen Linnea Quigley teams with writer and former standup comic Michael McCarty to warn us about the gods of FX in "The Wizard of Ooze." Film editor-director Patrick Lussier's "Vision" is cautionary, too, but about boy-genius directors. With prolific short-form-writer Mark McLaughlin's help, Kyra M. Schon, who as a little girl wielded a garden trowel on mommy in the original Night of the Living Dead, wickedly exploits her unforgettable performance in "Arlene Schabowski of the Undead." Full-time writers contribute the very best tales, such as Gary A. Braunbeck's "Onlookers," based on one of the most famous art films ever; Brian Hodge's thought-provoking reply to Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ, "The Passion of the Beast"; and crime-novelist Ed Gorman's sad, moving coming-of-age story, "Scream Queen." But really, there isn't a single unrewarding entry, especially for fans of the most fiendish kind of Twilight Zone ending. Ray Olson
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Review:

The most successful contributions blur the boundaries between cinema and verité: Gary Braunbeck's opener, "Onlookers," is a shiver-inducing tale of observations that create reality; Jack Ketchum's "Elusive" makes a common question deeply disturbing; and Ray Garton's "Everything Must Go" is a heart-pounding, heartbreaking story about knowing when to believe your eyes. --Publishers Weekly

Midnight Premiere is a superb anthology, one whose faults as well as its strengths give it value. Highly recommended. --Horror World

While 'theme' anthologies still have their detractors, it's clear that a well-balanced volume like Midnight Premiere can and does showcase great writing and entertainment, slip in a little social commentary, and wrap it all up in a humorous Alan Clark cover painting. What's not to like? --Chizine

About this edition

• Publisher: Cemetery Dance Publications
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1587671468
• ISBN 13: 9781587671463
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 360