Mine is pitted from all the bites it has deflected. It’s like a clerical collar of metal designed to strangle you and cook your neck at the same time. Our uniforms are not designed for comfort–special Kevlar, too many Velcro pouches of heavy gear–but the worst is the steel collars we wear to avoid getting fanged.

Our own blood was up from the first bag of the day maybe I should tell you about that first. We kicked in the door of the crypt with an aluminum battering ram and did the sweep-and-spread you usually do when trying to cover unknown space. The trade paperback book can be ordered from Amazon US, Amazon UK, and Amazon CA.Thursday, December 15th, 2005 | Filed under Fiction | Posted by David J Schow Whether you remember it from back in the day, or missed out on it the first time around, I can assure you SILVER SCREAM still holds up, and is deserving of its billing as the “greatest original anthology of the 1980s.” Schow and the support of each and every one of the contributing writers. It wouldn’t have happened without the perseverance of David J.

It has been a dream come true to help bring this book back into print after more than 30 years. Ford, Mick Garris, Jay Sheckley, and Douglas E. Lansdale, RC Matheson, Robert McCammon, John Skipp, Craig Spector, Karl Edward Wagner, Chet Williamson, F Paul Wilson… along with great stories by several writers I was discovering for the first time: Mark Arnold, Steven Boyett, John M. The list of contributing authors included many or biggest names in the horror field at the time: Clive Barker, Robert Bloch, Edward Bryant, Ramsey Campbell, Ray Garton, Joe R. Schow, who as editor didn’t actually have any fiction in the book-but he wrote the most compelling afterword to an anthology that I had ever read.

It was my introduction to the work of David J. I first encountered SILVER SCREAM (in hardcover and paperback) while I was working for B. Here’s what Cimarron Street Books publisher John Scoleri posted to Facebook about the book: They’re all here from the heyday of splatterpunk, in the first and best anthology of cinema horror-the ultimate haunted theatre of the imagination, showcasing grindhouses, 3-for-1 fleapits, porn castles, werewolf-circuit drive-ins, snuff movies, peep shows, fly-by-night video rental shacks, has-been actors, never-was ingenues, Tinseltown burnouts, film cults, immortal stars, film school dorks, media mutants, and even that bastard little brother, television … Please take your seat for the midnight show … Robert McCammon’s “Night Calls the Green Falcon” was first published in Silver Scream.Ĭimarron Street Books is please to bring SILVER SCREAM back into print for the first time in over 30 years! The anthology Silver Scream is back in print for the first time in 32 years! Originally published by Dark Harvest in 1988, Silver Scream ranks as one of the, if not the, best horror anthologies every published.

Silver Scream by David J. Schow