Underland Press Books
Title: The Complete Drive-InAuthor: Joe R. Lansdale Published: 05/01/2010 Format: Trade Paperback Page Count: 400 Dimensions: 6X9 ISBN: 978-0-9802260-4-1 Price: $16.95 $14.95 |
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. “The Drive-In has that rare combination: fear and laughter. It is a quick read that will have readers alternately chuckling and shivering. And as one must expect from Lansdale. It is utterly tasteless.” – Rocky Mountain News, Mark Graham “It’s a perfectly bizarro and wonderful Uncle Joe who addresses us from across a smoky campfire and tells us this tale of perfectly ordinary guys caught up in a nightmare conceit of satire, violence, bravery, sardonic compassion, cannibalism, crucifixion, and wry common sense.” – Mile High Comics, Edward Bryant |
Title: The Complete Drive-In