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352 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published June 19, 1997
"His name was Bear and you didn't ponder why he was called that. He was six-five, ugly as disease, had red-brown hair and a beard that mercifully consumed most of his face. All that was clearly visible were some nasty blue eyes and a snout that was garage to some troublesome nose hairs thick enough to use for piano wire...What could be seen of his lips reminded me of those rubber worms fishermen use, and I wouldn't have been surprised to see shiny silver hooks poking out of them, or to discover that the whole of Bear had been made from decaying meat, wire and the contents of a tackle box and a Crisco can." (pp. 10-11)
Dove sono le stelle? Perché chi si avvicina ai confini del drive-in muoreorribilmente? E chi può avere interesse a tenere in ostaggio una follaistupidita, imbarbarita, inferocita, costretta oltretutto a vedereininterrottamente "La notte dei morti viventi"? E la paura dilaga, anche al diqua degli schermi giganti su cui scorrono le immagini. Mentre in un primomomento a coloro che tentavano la fuga dal drive-in era riservata una fineorrenda, ora le cose sembrano andare diversamente: pare ci sia qualchetemerario che possa varcare la soglia impenetrabile oltre la quale si vedesolo il buio assoluto...