Published: Nov. 18, 2010
Words: 67,298 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781452499222

Short description

Living After Midnight contains 6 horror and dark-fantasy tales (63,000 words' worth) inspired by hard rock and heavy metal. Here's the set list: “Spooky Tooth” by Randy Chandler, “Iron Maiden” by Matthew Fryer, “Black Sabbath” by Steven L. Shrewsbury, “Judas Priest” by David T. Wilbanks, “Motorhead” by Kent Gowran, and “Slayer” by L.L. Soares.

Extended description

Q: What happens when heavy music inspires dark fiction?

A: "Heavy metal horror heaven" (Jim McLeod, Ginger Nuts of Horror) and "one of the things that make having an e-reader worthwhile" (KentAllard, Dead in the South).

The concept behind Living After Midnight: Hard and Heavy Stories is simple: six authors came up with six stories (63,000 words) of horror and dark fantasy inspired by the music of their favorite hard rock and heavy metal bands. From the music of Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Slayer, Spooky Tooth, Motorhead, and (of course) Judas Priest come exciting tales of werewolves, zombies, ghosts, wizards, demons, serial killers--and giant snakes! You don't have to like the music to enjoy these stories. They are mythic and modern, British and American, long and short--hard and heavy--all on their own.

"Any die-hard metal fan will absolutely devour this well-edited, well-written anthology." -- Hellnotes

"A bevy of loud stories perfect for those of us who've wrecked our ears.. (Read more) Q: What happens when heavy music inspires dark fiction?

A: "Heavy metal horror heaven" (Jim McLeod, Ginger Nuts of Horror) and "one of the things that make having an e-reader worthwhile" (KentAllard, Dead in the South).

The concept behind Living After Midnight: Hard and Heavy Stories is simple: six authors came up with six stories (63,000 words) of horror and dark fantasy inspired by the music of their favorite hard rock and heavy metal bands. From the music of Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Slayer, Spooky Tooth, Motorhead, and (of course) Judas Priest come exciting tales of werewolves, zombies, ghosts, wizards, demons, serial killers--and giant snakes! You don't have to like the music to enjoy these stories. They are mythic and modern, British and American, long and short--hard and heavy--all on their own.

"Any die-hard metal fan will absolutely devour this well-edited, well-written anthology." -- Hellnotes

"A bevy of loud stories perfect for those of us who've wrecked our ears on a lifetime misspent listening to the heaviest of heavy metal... They read like classics." -- Joe Donn Martin, author of Too Poor for Texas

"A good variety pack of scary stories... a wide assortment of horror with a supernatural bent... I plowed through this book inside of a few hours -- it was an easy read, and a satisfying one as well." -- Patrick D'Orazio, author of Comes the Dark
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Tags

fiction, horror, anthology, short stories, dark fantasy, slayer, heavy metal, rock bands, novellas, black sabbath, judas priest, hard rock, spooky tooth, iron maiden, motorhead

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Review by: jim mcleod on Jan. 13, 2011 :
There are two things in life, outside of the family, guaranteed to bring a smile to my face. Good heavy Metal, and good horror stories. Can you imagine the smile on my face when I cracked open this collection short and not so short stories each inspired by a heavy artist.

David T Wilibanks has assembled one hell of a squad for this heavy metal horror heaven.




Spooky Tooth by Randy Chandler,

Iron Maiden by Matthew Fryer,

Black Sabbath by Steven L. Shrewsbury,

Judas Priest by David T. Wilbanks,

Motorhead by Kent Gowran,

Slayer by L.L. Soares.

The hit rate is damn near perfect, each of these tales are are highly deserving of inclusion in a book of this calibre. It must be said though that the tales themselves are only inspired by the bands names and do not actually have anything to do with their namesakes, just in case you are one of those odd people that don't like metal.

My favourites of the collection, and trust me it was hard to sewlet just three.

Black Sabbath, are example of what a how zombie stories should be written. There are more dangerous things in a world over run by zombies than the zombies. I also liked the fact the zombies due to natural rotting would no longer be a problem, given enough time.

Spooky Tooth by Randy Chandler, having never read anything by Chandler before, it was fun discovering a new author with which to feed my book reading addiction. Spooky Tooth, is a excellent twist on the werewolf story.

And finally Motorhead by Kent Gowran. In an ideal world Kent would be a lot more prolific and a lot more famous. A tale of a gas station robbery gone wrong, with a giant snake, is a hard fast paced balls to the wall story. With the final line being just perfect.

In future if I see Kent's name in a table of contents, then you get bet your last dollar I'll but that book.

On a side note it was a pleasure to see that each "page" of the book corresponded to a "page on the e-reader. I hate it when you turn a page and it goes from 1 to 1-2 then 2.

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(reviewed within a month of purchase)

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