Greenberg & Partridge - It Came From the Drive-In

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Martin H Greenberg & Norman Partridge (eds.) - It Came From the Drive-In (DAW 1996)

Norman Partridge - Introduction: Or, Here’s Where Your Ticket Gets Torn

Edward Bryant - Talkin’ Trailer Trash
Sean A. Moore - 10585
Jay R. Bonansinga - Big Bust at Herbert Hoover High
Norman Partridge - ’59 Frankenstein
Rex Miller - Tuesday Weld, Sunday Services
Dan Perez - Die, Baby, Die, Die, Die!
Tia Travis - The Yellers of Their Eyes
Gregory Nicoll - Underground Atlanta
Ed Gorman - The Morning of August 18th
Nancy A. Collins - The Thing From Lovers’ Lane
Steve Rasnic - Jungle J.D.
Gary Jonas - The Blood on Satan’s Harley
Nina Kiriki Hoffman - I Was a Teenage Boycrazy Blob
Wayne Allen Sallee - Bullets Can’t Stop It
Randy Fox - Race with the Devil
Adam-Troy Castro - The Good, the Bad, and the Danged
Robert Devereaux - The Slobbering Tongue that Ate the Frightfully Huge Woman
Karl Edward Wagner - Plan 10 from Inner Space

Blurb:
Science fiction, horror, and the truly unbelievable--it's all here in an original collection that captures that almost gone and highly romanticized era - the Age of the Drive-In Movie. Includes 18 tales that will have readers choking on their popcorn with laughter or fear.

Still haven't hit on a copy, but this looks like one of the more interesting of the all-originals, both in term of theme and contributors. Would be glad of a summary of Karl E. Wagner's contribution. It has to be some kind of Ed Wood horror story?

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Martin H Greenberg & Norman Partridge (eds.) - It Came From the Drive-In (ibooks.inc 2004: originally DAW, 1996)

Richard Corben

Blurb:
SCIENCE FICTION, HORROR, AND THE TRULY UNBELIEVABLE!

It's all here in a collection that captures that almost gone and highly romanticized era: the Age of the Drive-In Movie. Fogged-up windshields, bad speaker systems, snack foods galore—it was all
part of the drive-in experience.
And let‘s not forget the movies themselves. From the low-budget. badly acted to the subllmely ridiculous—with an occasional top-run film thrown in — it was the heyday of the B— movie.
Return now to that amazing era with such remarkable tales as: “The Blood on Satan's Harley,” "The Thing From Lover‘s Lane," "Plan 10 From Inner Space, " "'59 Frankenstein, " and 14 other imagination-grabbing mini-sagas.

Second edition. Groovy cover art a bonus. Five stories in. Could make head nor tale of Ed Bryant's opening vignette, but the others have been fun.

Nancy A. Collins - The Thing From Lovers’ Lane: It roamed at night ... to slake its monstrous thirst for beauty! When homecoming Queen Carol Ann is brutally raped on Goat's Hill, suspicion falls on her boyfriend, Billy Mahan, official local JD and no good punk. Old Gooney, the malodorous hermit of Misty Valley, knows different: "Just because the boy greases his hair back, wears a leather jacket, and likes to drag race doesn't make him a criminal." Besides, Gooney knows the culprit ain't of this earth. Thirty-one years back, Shug-Niggurath, the Black Goat of the Woods, shredded his Pappy and raped Maw so bad the boy had to shoot her lest she birth its thousand-and-first abominable offspring. Reads like a novelisation of the loopiest Cthulhu Mythos b-movie never to hit the screen.

Jay R. Bonansinga - Big Bust at Herbert Hoover High: Unleashed ... uninhibited .... a testosteronic terror born of cross-your-heart engineering! Horny, globes-obsessed Arnie Skaggs drives Betty-Lou up to the Nuclear testing site on Mount Ferriman for some serious fooling around. Just when Arnie finally persuades Miss Bizzel to remove her bra, the ground subsides beneath them. Welcome to the night of the walking tit-head.

Nina Kiriki Hoffman - I Was a Teenage Boycrazy Blob: Growing ... uninhibited .... a test-tube terror with a hunger that knew no bounds! Lonesome teen Patty LeFevre's extra-curricular phemeral experiment in the science lab goes disastrously awry when she upsets a tray of acid during a lightening storm.

Randy Fox - Race with the Devil: He was a be-bop-a-loser ... until she gave his woman love! The one rocker who never sold out hits the afterlife, where the leader of the Els motor-sickle gang challenges him to a game of chicken. Will Catman Gene finally get the hot leather babe and ride off into the sunset?

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Karl E. Wagner - Plan 10 From Inner Space: From the tomb of the past they came ... a hellborn army bent on atomic destruction. According to legendary speed pulpster 'Kent Allard,' very few copies exist of Plan 10 From Inner Space, Roger Corman's Ed Wood rip-off. The movie was scripted by a precocious pizza delivery boy named Karl Edward Wagner, who went on to man the fryer in an East London fish & chips shop. Wagner's story treatment revolves around a complex Nazi plot to revive the cryptogenetically frozen Adolf Hitler, steal an atom bomb, and unleash giant prehistoric mutant spider-crab and lobster on mankind. At close of WWII, Nazi scientists fled to a secret base deep beneath the South Pole, there to develop flying saucers and mind-control technology in preparation for another stab at entire world domination. To this effect, Fräulein Oberführer Elsie von Kampf, whip-happy "She werewolf of the S.S.," orders her zombie army to abduct Denton High cheerleader Mary Ann, daughter of Professor Weiss, the famous nuclear scientist (a mutant crab makes short work of her date). Mary Ann is soon indoctrinated and duly kidnaps her father who, brainwashed, passes on sensitive A-bomb secrets. Were it not for the heroic intervention of Johnny Decade, misunderstood juvenile delinquent - well, it doesn't bear thinking about! Great bad dialogue, plenty of angora sweater action, and a nerve-shredding man versus monsters finale in a vault. The story that had me hoping I'd one day get my hands on a copy of this book doesn't disappoint.

Gary Jonas - The Blood on Satan's Harley: A hellrider of the Apocalypse, he burned rubber on the blackest patch of highway where demons dwell!. A headless vigilante rides in Onkowa, Oklahoma, after midnight, decapitating any biker brave or stupid enough to trespass on his territory. Joe Crane, motor-sickle hoodlum, is sworn to take him down for beheading his best buddy.

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Hi Kev, great notes as always. The plot outline for "Blood on Satan's Harley" sounds reminiscent of an actual episode of the early 1990s series She-Wolf of London, one of my occasional not so guilty pleasures.

That book would be fun for reading on my electronic device on one of my bus trips. It sounds rather scarce however since it took a decade before you were able to score a copy.

cheers, Steve

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Jan 27, 2019 16:17:06 GMT helrunar said:

Hi Kev, great notes as always. The plot outline for "Blood on Satan's Harley" sounds reminiscent of an actual episode of the early 1990s series She-Wolf of London, one of my occasional not so guilty pleasures.

That book would be fun for reading on my electronic device on one of my bus trips. It sounds rather scarce however since it took a decade before you were able to score a copy.

cheers, Steve

The original might prove difficult to find cheap as I gather DAW's are collectable, but the reprint was reissued again in 2011. Doesn't seem to have made it to ebook yet.

Edward Bryant - Talkin' Trailer Trash: On gigantic wings they flew ... freedom riders for a nuclear age! The big bugs could easily overthrow mankind but are prepared to let old grievances lie in return for equal rights and due respect. Don't call them "Chiggers," they are insect-Americans. Underwhelming opener. Reads like 'Ebony & Ivory: the giant-spider makeover' - with exploding 'choppers.

Sean A. Moore - 10585: Its home ... outer space! Its mission ... to enslave an unsuspecting world! It's destination ... Earth!. Colorado, 195-. A radio-active meteorite unleashes a multi-tendrilled blue blob on the audience at the Devil's Thumb Drive-In. Can Matt, the High School football hero, save his nerdy, 10-year-old invalid kid brother Cliff from the zombifying menace? Does he even want to seeing as how the legless little creep was responsible for Dad's death?

Plan 10 from Inner Space , Nancy Collins' The Dunwich Horror sequel, and Nina Kiriki Hoffman's tribute to The Blob have been my fave raves to date. KEW's Johnny Decade (the James Dean of Denton High) is brilliant. The school toughs reckon he must have killed Mary Ann because "... you're an intellectual, which means you're a dirty Commie and a pansy." "No, I'm a disturbed and alienated teenager, barely able to control my inner rage."

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Dan Perez - Die, Baby, Die, Die, Die!: 1,400 pounds of alien fury ... with a black leather soul!. The Stink Bugz, meanest of Lipperton's teen gangs, recruit a fifth member - a giant praying mantis from outer space armed with a cosmic ray gun. After reducing rival outfit the Duckasses to cinders, the Bugz descend on the school dance ...

Proper vicious, rotten to the core Juvies's this lot, no namby pamby "poor misunderstood crazy mixed up kids" about 'em. The National Guard blame it on "Rock 'n roll and them cheap paperback novels."

Gregory Nicoll - Underground Atlanta: The South will rise again ... tonight!: Fast forward to the late 'sixties ("You should hear how good that new Curtis Mayfield 8-track sounds on these speakers."). The Civil War centennial has been and gone, but for Beady eyes, Toothless and their albino comrades, it is business as usual. The rebels oversee a subterranean mushroom plantation, only breaking surface to abduct new slaves. When an escapee raises the alarm, Detectives Randy Ray Williamson and partner Tamara Greir descend the tunnel to a land where time stood still.

Ed Gorman - The Morning of August 18th: With a thunder of engines, they came .... A jarring mood-swing. Homicidal bikers descend on the valley, attack a farm killing husband, wife and little daughter. It's the same every morning of August 18th, which, for the Gulager family, is every morning of their lives. They are doomed to relive their final moments on a loop for all eternity. Groundhog Day for the terminally miserable.

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Steve Rasnic Tem - Jungle J.D.: Born in a concrete world ... trapped in a green hell! After-death experience of Tony, who writes off a stolen car and winds up captured by Nazi war criminals in a South American jungle. Being a teenage delinquent, Tony quickly adapts to the sadistic ways of his new buddies. No shortage of bizarre incident, but didn't quite work for this reader.

Robert Devereaux - The Slobbering Tongue that Ate the Frightfully Huge Woman: She was amazing ... she was colossal ... but size isn't everything! "I call it gargantium. it makes organic matter grow. Don't ever disturb that glass container, or there's no telling what will happen." So instructs Dr. Baxter to his married - but still innocent - young secretary, Sally Holmes, shortly before raping her in the lab. The furious young woman retaliates by dismembering the son of a bitch. Glass container shatters, drenching Mrs. Holmes and Baxter's severed tongue in pink jelly ...

Sally, fast transformed into sexually insatiable fifty foot woman, rampages through the city with what's left of Baxter slavering in pursuit. Considering what's to come, perhaps it as just as well that Giganto, the ten foot cock, is caged throughout.

This anthology strikes me as very much Norman Partridge's baby. I'm guessing Greenberg cops a credit for getting the authors on board?

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Rex Miller - Tuesday Weld, Sunday Service: They came to worship ... at an atom-age shrine!. Years after the human race finally achieved total nuclear genocide, extra-terrestrial archaeologists examine the ruins of an "underground mobile worship facility" where primitives gathered to mate and/ or masturbate at the shrine of Mamie Van Doren ...

Norman Partridge - Frankenstein '59: Chopped 'n channeled ... stitched 'n rivited ... a walking teenage nightmare!. The creature is a composite of body parts salvaged from the Belton High senior "football" team who perished in a school bus accident. Supercilious Dr. Frankenstein refuses to allow the monster to test-drive his hot-rod for fear of discovery, whereupon the temperamental teen lobs him, mutilated, but still living, into a crocodile pit, promptly hits the highway to ... adventure. The editor's gory variation on I Was A Teenage Frankenstein reads like a deadpan tale of the crypt.

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Adam-Troy Castro - The Good, the Bad, and the Danged: With six guns thundering ... they rode the brimstone trail! A shoot out on Boot Hill. When a badass outlaw gang hit the desert town they'd not figured on having Marshal Kane, law man from Hell, to contend with. Didn't anticipate the man-eating tumble-weeds, neither, come to that. Now Rico, the Kid and Janey the town whore are locked in a B-Movie of the Marshal's devising, with Morricone turned up to ear-splitting as the soundtrack.

Wayne Allen Sallee - Bullets Can’t Stop It: A towering terror ... beyond reason, beyond imagination! The BEM room at the virtual drive-in theater, Manteno, Illinois. Just attach goggles, pull on the gloves and you can star in a mash-up of two creature features of your choice. A groovy, perfectly safe head trip. But local black leather hoodlum Devery Truax has a down on autistic kid Clement Wing, who regularly attends the drive-in with a pair of speccy nerds and hot chick Gloria. When Truax tampers with the software, Wing and pals come under attack from the massed ranks of 'fifties B-movie monsters and villains.

Mr. Castro's offering joins personal picks of the collection. Mostly all the stories have been fun. One to go, another weird Western by the looks of it.

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Glad I left Mrs. Norman Partridge's novella 'til last as it sees out the book on a a high.

Tia Travis - The Yellers of Their Eyes: In their veins ... the blood of the beast! In their eyes ... unspeakable hunger! Sand Creek, South Dakota, Summer 1877. The townsfolk come under attack from twenty remote controlled, man-eating jackalope infected with a particularly virulent form of rabies. Dr. Devereaux, the evil genius who cultivated the virus - he controls the herd via the black boxes attached to each of their heads - demands a $100,000 ransom for an antidote. Lieutenant Trev T. Halleran has been on the mad medic's trail since the fiend experimented on his dying pal after the the Battle of Little Big Horn. Halleran persuades the terrified locals to take the fight to Devereaux and his muscle, the Beaudine brothers. A riot of scalped skulls, gnawed bones 'n faces, puke-flavoured foam, and ... and the flies ... omigod! ... the black flies!