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eaturing 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 ... Read more

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QUIRKY AND CREEPY ANTHOLOGY
The premise of Midnight Premiere is pretty simple...What if situations in horror films happened in real life? These 18 original tales are brought to you by some of the top horror writers working today including: Jack Ketchum, Ed Gorman, Tom Piccirilli, Thomas F. Monteleone, and John Shirley. However in a bit of a twist, other stories are provided by those who've come to know working in horror films either in front of, or behind the camera. These include scream queen Linnea Quigley, character actor William Smith, screenwriter/director Mick Garris, and Kyra Schon, best known to horror fans as Karen Cooper, the young zombie from Night of the Living Dead who killed her parents.

Ketchum's "Elusive" is a take on recent films like "The Ring" as a man's quest to see a new horror film continues to be interrupted by strange coincidences. When a friend tells him there's a man who could be his double in the film who dies a horrible death, he's more determined than ever to see the film...might not be the best decision!

"Everything Must Go" by Ray Garton, is one of the best stories in the book. A couple travel down a backwoods country road to an out of the way garage sale. While his wife looks over the merchandise, the husband cannot help but notice all of the abandoned cars on the property...and all the personal possessions being sold...and the smell of barbeque in the air.

In Piccirilli's "Shadder" a disgraced film director named Parks travels back to his country home, planning on selling his half of the family estate, even if it means displacing his brother's family. But it seems the crows talk to Parks' nephews, just as they did to him when he was a boy, and the crows have other ideas.

"Arlene Schabowski of the Dead" is the story by Kyra Schon along with writer McLaughlin. This is a clever story about a zombie film that was made many years ago by a bunch of friends. There was a little girl in that movie who played a zombie that killed and ate her parents. But after the film stopped rolling, that little girl wandered off the set, still a black & white zombie living in a world of colors.

"Humps in the Field" by William Smith written with Del Howison is beautiful ode the almost extinct drive-in movie theater. You'll never look at a drive-in the same way after reading this story.

Midnight Premiere is filled with intelligent, yet quirky tales of traditional horror themes. It is real life imitating art at its terrifying best.

REVIEWED BY TIM JANSON

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great short fiction you'll want to read til the end
I loved this book. Once i picked it up i didn't put it down until it was finished. I'm going to read this one a few times before it makes it to the shelf i believe.

good service
The book that I purchased arrived on time if not a little earlier than expected and in good condition

essential reading
This is the strongest collections of horror stories I've read in years-- out of 21 short stories, there are perhaps two that are less than great, "A Stain Upon Her Honor" by John Ames and "Horror Story" by Whitley Strieber.This is all the more remarkable because all the stories are new.What I liked best is that the stories don't rely on gore for their effect, but get their chills from the twisted psychology of the characters or situations.A must-read for any horror fan.

Why is it the best books are always the hardest to find...
This book (actually all 4 volumes of the Borderlands anthology series edited by Thomas F. Monteleone) is unconditionally one of the best anthologies in the genre... although initially attracted by the cover art (dark and subtley psychotic), this (these) book(s) is (are)this schizophrenic fiction is wearing off on me) the one I just can't seem to put away for very long... the one I simply can't bear to lend out for fear of never regaining it for one more read, one more trip into the darker recesses of the human psyche, the farther, dimmer reaches of surreality, as administered by the hands of some of the most talented writers in contemporary dark fiction - especially considering the fact that this series is seemingly out of print now (2001).So much more than a simple cross-section of current horror / dark fantasy, the works contained within Borderlands defy simple categorization, utterly devoid of tired stereotypes and cliches.These stories will make you shudder, they will make you think, they may even occasionallymake you laugh, but they will most definitely make you question reality and your own sanity... they will go beyond (most) everything else that has come before.Buy this book (and any other in the Monteleone-edited Borderlands series that you can get your hands on), borrow it, steal it, beg the publisher to reprint it... do whatever you have to do to add this collection of literary gems to your experience of dark fiction.Along with the perennial Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, this is the most essential collection that the field of horror / dark fantasy has to offer. ... Read more

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Six new stories and interviews with Brite and Robert Weinberg. ... Read more

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SPECIAL SIGNED AND NUMBERED EDITION. LIMITED to 500 copies. Blue boards with embossed silver gilt lettering. Frontispiece drawing by Gahan Wilson. Foreward by Kealan Patrick Burke, Introduction by Hank Wagner. This anthology presents a gathering of stories by todays best known authors including F. Paul Wilson, Peter Straub, Stephen King, Thomas F. Monteleone, Douglas E. Winter, Bentley Little, Kim Newman, Craig Shaw Gardner, Steven Spruill, Chet Williamson, Joe R. Lansdale, Scott Edelman, Paul Finch, Bill Pronzini, Kathryn Ptacek, William Relling Jr., Al Sarrantonio, David B. Silva, Steve Rasnic Tem, David Niall Wilson, Darren O. Godfrey, Gary A. Braunbeck, P.D. Cacek, Thomas Smith, Wendy Webb, Hank Wagner, T. Liam McDonald, Gahan Wilson, and Charles L. Grant. SIGNED BY 30 CONTRIBUTORS including Stephen King ... Read more

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CONTENTS: ~ ~~ ~ Second Creation [Gordon Eklund]; They've Got Some Hungry Women There [Pig Wyal]; A Creature of Accident [Thomas F. Monteleone]; That's the Spirit [H. L. Gold]; When Two or Three Are Gathered [Charles Grant]; Good Servants Are Hard to Find These Days [Grant Carrington] ... Read more