Midnight Premiere

by Tom Piccirilli (Editor), Thomas F. Monteleone, Al Sarrantonio

Featuring Jack Ketchum, Gary Braunbeck, Thomas F. Monteleone, Ray Garton, Brian Hodge, Ed Gorman, Al Sarrantonio, Mick Garris, and many others, these eighteen original tales celebrate Hollywood and the horror movie-going experience with affection, devotion, and fear. In Midnight Premiere you'll discover how many of these authors have worked in film as screenwriters, actors, and directors and put their particular experiences to use in showing you the dark underside of the Hollyweird dream and the LaLa Land facade.

The opening credits are about to roll.

Prepare yourself for the shocking and the illuminating, the strange and the fanciful...the real and the lies of celluloid that may well mean more to you than the truth.

And remember

All the many screaming folks they torment up on the big screen and across these pages...?

The leering mad smiles, yowling creatures, and the brandishing of sharp weapons...?

All the havoc and mayhem and anguish and horrors...?

They do it because they LOVE you.

Join a cast including Mick Garris (director of Stephen King's THE STAND and DESPERATION), Patrick Lussier (director of WHITE NOISE: THE LIGHT, DRACULA 2000), William Smith (actor in hundreds of classic B-films including RUN ANGEL RUN and GRAVE OF THE VAMPIRE), Kyra Schon (zombie-girl extraordinaire from NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD), the number one scream queen of all time Linnea Quigley, and many others as they return to the

Genres: Horror

353 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 2006

About the author

Thomas Piccirilli (May 27, 1965 – July 11, 2015) was an American novelist and short story writer.

Piccirilli sold over 150 stories in the mystery, thriller, horror, erotica, and science fiction fields. He was a two-time winner of the International Thriller Writers Award for "Best Paperback Original" (2008, 2010). He was a four-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award. He was also a finalist for the 2009 Edgar Allan Poe Award given by the Mystery Writers of America, a final nominee for the Fantasy Award, and the winner of the first Bram Stoker Award given in the category of "Best Poetry Collection".

Reviews

[Craig · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a good collection of stories, but not a great one. I wanted to like it much more than I actually did, probably at least partially due to the limited edition status and hefty price. It's a loosely-themed anthology about horror movies. I enjoyed the Ray Garton, the Thomas F. Monteleone, and a collaboration between Mark McLaughlin and Kyra M. Schon very much. My favorite was the Gary A. Braunbeck lead-off story. I actually thought all of the entries were worth reading (except for the silly one with the too-long title), but doubt that I'll remember much about the others for very long. The Alan Clark cover is great.

[Kurt Reichenbaugh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Anthology combining movies and horror, collecting stories by Jack Ketchum, Ray Garton, Ed Gorman and T.M. Wright, to name a few. I ordered this when it first came out by Cemetary Dance and took my own sweet time with it ever since. Also includes a good story by Mark McLaughlin and Kyra M. Schon. "Kyra who?" one might ask. Kyra M. Schon, the little zombie-girl in the basement with the garden trowel in George Romero's Night of the Living Dead. Cool stories all-in-all. My favorites include Ray Garton's "Everything Must Go" about a couple who makes that fateful detour on a country road, and Ed Gorman's "Scream Queen" about...well who doesn't have a favorite Scream Queen? Recommended to fans of short horror stories. Gripes: I'm docking a star because, once again, the women writers seem to have been left out here. What kind of horror party is that? Also, it would have been interesting to get a more international flair in here. Some of us like movies with subtitles.

[Garry Hastelow · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not what I was expecting, although I'm not really sure what I was expecting with this collection of short stories, if you are interested in the movie industry and film making then you might find this more engaging than I did. There were a few short stories that I enjoyed, my favourite being "Everything Must Go" by Ray Garton (will definitely be checking out more of his work) but mostly I was unimpressed.

[Donald · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is signed by Tom Piccirilli and limited to 1500 copies. It is a themed collection of eighteen short stories by the likes of Jack Ketchum, Thomas F. Monteleone, Ray Garton and Al Sarrantonio to name just a few.

The theme is the film industry so there are stories covering everything from drive-in theaters to movie stars, and some of them are quite good.

Merged review:

Mine is a signed limited edition (1500 copies).

This is a collection of eighteen stories with Hollywood as a theme. I really love a good short story and all of these fit the bill.