What’s in APOCRYPHA?
Over the weekend, I told you all about Apocrypha. If you missed that, click here. Today, I’m happy to post the final table of contents.
As you can see, the miscellany is split into four sections — unpublished works (excerpts from novels that predated The Rising, for example); previously uncollected early works (such as the articles I wrote for a UFO magazine early in my career); pitches for things that never got off the ground (yes, at one point I was asked to pitch for the Terminator series); and things I wrote as a kid. Some of these you’ve probably heard of, such as Love and Worms and Cabin Fever (the latter of which turned into a very different novel called The Rising). Others (such as the fact that A Gathering of Crows was originally a serial killer novel) will undoubtedly be a surprise. This is not a book for the casual reader, but I’m confident that hardcore fans will love it. I’ll finish the book this week, and then it’s off to the pre-readers (who have suddenly gotten very busy again).
APOCRYPHA – TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
PART ONE: EPHEMERA
Love and Worms – Excerpt
The Rising – Original Ending
City of the Dead – Original First Chapter
Untitled Meeble Novel – Excerpt
Cabin Fever – Excerpt
The Sleep of Reason – Excerpt
A Gathering of Crows (serial killer version) – Excerpt
History of the World, Part One
Backstabber
Do You Remember Where We Parked?
The Bridge Over the River Kal-Ti – Fragment
On the Road – Fragment
Down Under (rat version) – Fragment
Untitled Crime Novel – Fragment
PART TWO: RARITIES
All Things Zombie
Last Exit for the Lost
The Living Dead
Looking Glass – Chapter Three
The Crane House – Chapter One
Oh, the Horror #5
Oh, the Horror #6 – Excerpt
Keene’s Korner
Lights Over Lubbock
Flying Saucers Invade Nation’s Capitol
Military Captures Saucers on Film
The Ancient Age of Flying Saucers
Fifty Years Before Roswell
Radioactive Lizards, Birds, Bats, and Butterflies
PART THREE: ABORTIONS
The Tunnel
Red Station
Dark Waters
Vanishing Point
Thunderbird
Day of Terror
Neanderzombie – Movie Treatment
Fodder – Movie Treatment
The Rising – Series Synopsis
Devil-Slayer: Personal Demons
Devil-Slayer: Personal Demons – Script Excerpt
Devil-Slayer 2
Battlestar Galactica: Terror of the Ovions
Re-Animator: Spring Break Innsmouth
Red Sonja: Queen of the Damned
Terminator: Terminator Rex
Booster Gold
Animal Man
Brother Power, the Geek
Guardian
Manhunter
Manhunter 2
Phantom Stranger
Ragman
Vigilante
PART FOUR: JUVENILIA
The Quest
Space ‘n Ace, Episode 1
Untitled Fast Times at Ridgemont High Pastiche
Satan’s Mist
Graveyard Shift
