Will his information help Creighton nail the psycho before he kills again? 'The Watchman' has been a Green Falcon fan from childhood and always kept the pledge - 'Do right'. The big breakthrough comes via the furtive street scavenger 'The Watchman', who collects the detritus of the city and files and index's it in his basement.

McCammon - Night Calls The Green Falcon:Ĭreighton 'Cray Flint' Boomershine, 'forties serial star now all but forgotten, arthritic and reduced to mopping floors in Burger King, gets his superhero costume out of mothballs and teams up with go-go dancer Gracie and street-suss Ques when his kindly young neighbour is murdered by the Fliptop Killer. The lead characters, aspiring movie star Dale Snyder and his pathetic lover, Dottie, are believable drug f**k ups, and the sense of doom pervading the story makes the ending inevitable, yet for all that you're expecting it, it's still shocking when it arrives. John Skipp - Film At Eleven: Reminiscent of Karl Wagner's equally unpleasant More Sinned Against from the same collection with a touch of Hollywood Boulevard thrown in at the end. Lansdale's dedication reads: For Lew Shiner. Eventually they pull up outside a house in the middle of nowhere where, fatally, two fat guys in Hawaiian shirts, Vinnie and Pork, are entertaining their redneck pals with home made snuff-porn movies. Now Scott is black, but he's also the best player on the Mud Creek Wildcats so they grudgingly rescue him. Shortly afterward they see a guy from school, Scott, running from the Wild Tree Boys. For a chuckle they chain it to the rear bumper and drag it.

So he and the equally drunk Farto drive around bored out of their skulls. Lansdale - The Night They Missed The Horror Show: Leonard doesn't want to go to the drive-in because they're showing Night Of The Living Dead and the hero is a black guy. Wagner seemed to be an honorary splat-head). with their modern, pulpy horror stories (Karl E. The main thing these consistently entertaining and often mega-gory collections had in common was the high quota of 'Splatterpunks' - Schow, Ray Garton, Nancy Collins, Skipp & Spector, Joe Lansdale, Roberta Lannes, Mike Garris, etc.

SILVER SCREAM proudly presents the best that terror has to offer.Īs far as I'm concerned, the late 'eighties were a mini-golden age for US anthologies featuring (mostly) original stories, what with the likes of Book Of The Dead, Shock Rock, the early Hot Blood's and Silver Scream. Winter - Splatter: A Cautionary Taleįrom the broken down picture palaces to glorious neon drive-ins, from the has-been stars of yesterday to the ambitious, rapacious would-be stars of tomorrow, from the tinsel and glitter. McCammon - Night Calls The Green Falconĭouglas E. Lansdale - Night They Missed The Horror ShowĬhet Williamson - Return Of The Neon Fireball

Silver Scream by David J. Schow