With more than 20 books to his credit, Joe R. Lansdale is a champion Mojo storyteller known for his offbeat, witty, and often gruesome stories and novels. In addition to his prose career, Lansdale has turned his pen to comics, writing issues of Conan, Batman, The Spirit, and the Fantastic Four. In his long career, Lansdale has won umpty-ump awards, including five Bram Stoker horror awards, a British Fantasy Award, the American Mystery Award, the Horror Critics Award, the Booklist Editor’s Award, and the New York Times Notable Book honor. Lansdale is also a member of the Martial Arts Hall of Fame, and runs his own Shen Chuan martial arts school.
The Complete Drive-In
Friday night at the Orbit Drive-in: a circus of noise, sex, teenage hormones, B-movie blood, and popcorn. On a cool, crisp summer night, with the Texas stars shining down like rattlesnake eyes, movie-goers for the All-Night Horror Show are trapped in the drive-in by a demonic-looking comet. Then the fun begins. If the movie-goers try to leave, their bodies dissolve into goo. Cowboys are reduced to tears. Lovers quarrel. Bikini-clad women let their stomachs’ sag, having lost the ambition to hold them in. The world outside the six monstrous screens fades to black while the movie-goers spiral into base humanity, resorting to fighting, murdering, crucifying, and cannibalizing to survive. Part dark comedy part horror show, Lansdale's cult Drive-In books are as shocking and entertaining today as they were twenty years ago.
This volume contains all three Drive-In books in one volume, along with an introduction by Don Coscarelli and illustrations from the Coscarelli movie that was never made.