Lansdale & Coscarelli: The Magic Continues

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.

Unsure if the adaptation refers to the first Drive-In book (1988) - or, Joe Lansdale’s Dead In The West (1986) which Don Coscarelli once optioned, only to end up adapting Bubba Ho-Tep (trivia time: both Dead In The West and Bubba take place in the town of Mud Creek, Texas - and Dead’s main character is a man of the cloth called: Jebediah!).

For those eager for more Lansdale/Coscarelli weirdfoolery, the book hits shelves both wooden and virtual on May the 1st.