AN ANTHOLOGY OF HORROR INSPIRED BY 1980'S SCHLOCK!
An anthology of short stories based upon/inspired by and in loving homage to all of those great gorefest movies and books of the 1980's (not necessarily based in that era, although some do ride that wave of nostalgia!), the golden age when horror well and truly came kicking, screaming and spraying blood, gore & body parts out from the shadows...
It was the decade that brought us everything in the cinema and on VHS from the Italian 'nasties' to Elm Street, The Lost Boys, Hellraiser, The Thing, Day of the Dead, Reanimator, Return of the Living Dead, My Bloody Valentine, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Cannibal Holocaust….and superlative directors such as David Cronenburg, John Waters, Roger Corman and - of course - Clive Barker.
All of this was, naturally, reflected in the books we devoured - Guy N Smith, Clive Barker's Books of Blood, James Herbert, Jack Ketchum, Gary Brandner and Richard Laymon, to name but a mere handfiul.
This exemplrary 80's themed/inspired tales of terror has been adjudicated and compiled by one Mr Bret McCormick, himself a writer, producer and director of many a schlock classic, including Bio-Tech Warrior, Time Tracers, The Abomination, Ozone: The Attack of the Redneck Mutants and the inimitable Repligator.
So, you get the picture - within this weighty tome, we have the darkest splatter, most horrific gruesomeness and stomach-churning detail, all wrapped up in a gripping stories, played out by the strongest of characters - all of which will keep even the hardiest of souls wide awake and trembling in the wee hours.
Sometimes cheesy, always gory, 80s horror holds a special place in my dark little heart. The stories in this anthology pay homage to the books and movies of those glorious days.
There is a bit of Sci-Fi thrown in the mix when a nerd gets a chance to live out his dreams in a computer-generated world, but of course, it soon turns nightmarish.
There is a classic horror feel in a story about a student who attends a free movie screening in exchange for providing feedback, in a creepy theater that he never should have entered.
Witches, ghosts, curses, mutants and even a chainsaw massacre provide hours of shock, disgust, and chills.
If you like your horror on the campy, humorous, and graphic side this is for you.
4 out of 5 stars
My thanks to HellBound Books
Featuring stories from:
Todd Sullivan, Timothy C Hobbs, Mark Thomas, Andrew Post, James B. Pepe, Thomas Vaughn, Edward Karpp, Jaap Boekestein, Lisa Alfano, L.C.Holt, John Adam Gosham, Brandon Cracraft, M. Earl Smith, Sarah Cannavo, James Gardner, Bret McCormick, and James H Longmore.
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