Bijou of the Dead

by Robert Freese

Absolutely no one living will be admitted once the terror-show has started SEE - The dead rise after an ancient rite of resurrection is performed by a perverted dark mistress of the occult SEE - The seething wave of pure evil pour into the city and lay siege on the patrons inside the lone bijou theater SEE - The living dead fiends, fresh from their earthen graves, attack and ravage the supple flesh of nubile, young girls SEE - The gory battle against the undead: a flesh-ripping, heart-slamming, blood-splashing assault of unrelenting horror

216 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2007

About the author

I got my start writing about movies in different cinema magazines but I always had an interest in fiction. I sold my first short story to Night of the Living Dead co-author John Russo. Since then, I've had over 100 short stories published as well as the novellas The Drive-in that Dripped Blood and The Santa Thing and the novel Bijou of the Dead. Simultaneously, I also wrote for numerous cinema magazines. I've been a staff writer for The Phantom of the Movies' VideoScope magazine for twenty-five years, contributing movie reviews, articles and interviews with various filmmakers. I've also contributed to magazines like Rue Morgue, Femme Fatales, Cult Movies, Scary Monsters and Grindhouse Purgatory, as well as the Italian language Nocturno and the French language Medusa Fanzine, and zines like Drive-in Asylum, Psychoholics Unanimous, Wet Paint, Film Geek and Film Ex, to name but a few. I was on the editorial team that helped put together Sam Sherman's book When Dracula Met Frankenstein. At the begging of 2022 I co-launched with my partner Paul Mcvay the film reference series It Came From Hollywood. Also in early 2022 I got the opportunity to write the movie tie-in to Brett Kelly's sci-fi space adventure Galaxy Warriors. Working from the original script, it combined my love of fiction and cinema. I am currently working on a new novelization. I have had the great opportunity to interview authors Richard Laymon, John Russo, Gary Brandner, Jack Ketchum, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Grady Hendrix, Chris Poggiali and Deborah Goodrich Royce. My interview with Deborah appears in the back of the paperback release of her excellent novel Ruby Falls. (She also answered questions for me about her acting career for VideoScope #118.)