Science fiction, horror, and the truly unbelievable—
-it’s all here in an original collection that captures the almost gone and highly romanticized era-the Age of the Drive-In Movie. Fogged-up windshields, bad speaker systems, snack foods galore, it was all part of the drive-in experience.
And lets not forget the movies themselves, from the low-budget, badly acted to the sublimely ridiculous—with an occasional top-run film thrown in—it was the heyday of the B-movie.
Return now to that amazing era with such remarkable tales as: “The Blood on Satan’s Harley”, “The Thing From Lovers Lane”, Plan 10 From Inner Space”, “59 Frankenstein”, and 14 other imagination-grabbing mini-sagas.
Contents:
- Introduction: Or, Here’s Where Your Ticket Gets Torn by Norman Partridge
- Talkin’ Trailer Trash by Edward Bryant
- 10585 by Sean A. Moore
- Big Bust at Herbert Hoover High by Jay R. Bonansinga
- ’59 Frankenstein by Norman Partridge
- Tuesday Weld, Sunday Services by Rex Miller
- Die, Baby, Die, Die, Die! by Dan Perez
- The Yellers of Their Eyes by Tia Travis
- Underground Atlanta by Gregory Nicoll
- The Morning of August 18th by Ed Gorman
- The Thing from Lovers’ Lane by Nancy A. Collins
- Jungle J.D. by Steve Rasnic Tem
- The Blood on Satan’s Harley by Gary Jonas
- I Was a Teenage Boycrazy Blob by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
- Bullets Can’t Stop It by Wayne Allen Sallee
- Race with the Devil by Randy Fox
- The Good, the Bad, and the Danged by Adam-Troy Castro
- The Slobbering Tongue that Ate the Frightfully Huge Woman by Robert Devereaux
- Plan 10 from Inner Space by Karl Edward Wagner
"Not since "Mystery Science Theater 3000" have the silly delights of '50s
and '60s B movies been celebrated with as much affection and wry wit as they are
in this assortment of 18 genre spoofs that range from horror to sci-fi to teen biker
to western. Check out these titles: "The Yellers of Their Eyes," "The Thing from
Lover's Lane," "The Blood on Satan's Harley," "I Was a Teenage Boycrazy Blob." I
especially appreciate how surreal most of the stories are: the authors have taken
their memories of those movies experienced through squawky outdoor speakers and
fogged windshields, and warped them into a new dimension where wicked satire creates
monsters even funnier than the originals. Two of these tales were nominated for a 1997
Bram Stoker Award--Robert Devereaux's "The Slobbering Tongue That Ate the Frightfully
Huge Woman" and the late Karl Edward Wagner's "Plan 10 from Inner Space. "
-Amazon.com
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