Ahead of the release of Clown in a Cornfield 4 this summer, we've got an exclusive look at the upcoming reissue of Bram Stoker Award-winning author Adam Cesare's 2013 horror novel Video Night.
Here at Fango we've been hugeVideo Night fans since day one, with John Skipp previously calling the book a “greased torpedo, compulsively readable as it rockets through your brain“, and praising the at-the-time newcomer Cesare as a writer with “the greatest encyclopedic gorehound know-how, blistering cinematic pace, unquenchable love of both fiction and film, and hell-bent will to entertain” (we've always had an eye for talent, what can we say!)
The new revised “author preferred” edition of Video Night comes with a foreword by fellow horror literary legend Stephen Graham Jones (My Heart is a Chainsaw, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter), and cover art by Matt Ryan Tobin and Union Square art director Patrick Sullivan.
Set in 1988, Video Night follows two best friends—one departing for college, one destined for bad boy townie life— who decide to have a final video night before their friendship changes forever:
Billy and Tom’s plan is perfect. They've got pizza and beer, and Tom even managed to convince his girlfriend, Darcy, to bring a friend, Billy's neighbor and crush, Rachel. But what they don't know is that there's an invasion underway. Across the street, Rachel's sister, Rhonda, was one of the first to turn. A slithering, chitinous evil has overtaken her body and mind, and she'll do anything to spread the alien infection. Blood, sex, rock and roll, invaders from outer space, and tender perspectives on teen male friendship: Video Night is one cult classic that has it all!
The reissue of Video Night hits shelves on September 29 in paperback, ebook, and audiobook from Union Square & Co., and can be pre-order from retailers including Amazon, and Cesare's local bookstore Children's Book World, where readers can grab a signed and personalized copy. Check out the full cover below:
