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For Immediate Release:
DARKNESS RISES OVER
CALIFORNIA
The Rolling Darkness Revue back on the road
October 15th – October 31st 2005
Bookstores that normally welcome customers
with armchairs, coffee, and an atmosphere of quiet reflection will be enticing
readers with something quite different this Halloween season when they play host
to a touring group of writers whose avowed intent is to shiver readers’ spines.
The Rolling Darkness Revue, a traveling fraternity of some of horror
fiction’s premier talents, takes to the road this October to deliver thrills and
chills in celebration of the genre’s favorite holiday.
Launched last year to enthusiastic reviews and rapidly swelling audiences, the
Rolling Darkness Revue is a multi-media experience which incorporates
theatrical lighting and live music to provide much more than the usual bookstore
reading.
Already gaining brand-name recognition – the Horror Writers Association
invited the RDR to give a “command performance” at their annual conference last
June – the Revue has established itself as an anticipated Halloween event,
receiving glowing notices from the Los Angeles Times and the syndicated NPR show
Fine Print.
Joining founder members Glen Hirshberg and Peter Atkins this year are guest
stars Michael Blumlein, Nancy Holder, Robert Masello, Robert Morrish, and Tamara
Thorne, along with a rotating cast of musicians.
October 15th – Mystery & Imagination, Glendale,
CA
(Atkins,
Hirshberg, Holder, Masello)
October 22nd – Lou’s Records, San Diego, CA (an
outdoor event)
(Atkins,
Hirshberg, Holder)
October 28th – The Capitola Book Café, Santa
Cruz, CA
(Atkins,
Blumlein, Hirshberg, Morrish)
October 29th – Borderlands Books, San
Francisco, CA
(Atkins,
Blumlein, Hirshberg)
October 31st – Mystery & Imagination, Glendale,
CA
(Atkins,
Hirshberg, Masello, Thorne)
Who Are These People?
Glen Hirshberg: Award-winning author of The Two Sams and The
Snowman’s Children. “A writer to watch and treasure.” – Peter Straub.
“Stories that are as unsettling as they are scary, as disturbing as they are
profound.” – Los Angeles Times.
Peter Atkins: Author of Morningstar and Big Thunder and the
movies Wishmaster and Hellraiser II-IV. “Atkins is a brilliant
supplier of shudders and splendors” – Clive Barker. “Writes with elegance, wit,
and awe-inspiring surprises” – The Times (London).
Nancy Holder: USA Today bestselling author of 200 short stories
and 78 novels. Co-editor of Outsiders, an anthology featuring Neil Gaiman,
Poppy Z Brite, and others. Her latest novel is Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
Queen of the Slayers.
Robert Masello: Prize-winning journalist, TV writer (Charmed,
Sliders, Poltergeist: The Legacy) and best-selling author of 16 books, most
recently the supernatural thriller Vigil – “As terrifying as The Omen
or The Exorcist!” – Jeffrey Long.
Michael Blumlein: Author of The Movement of Mountains and X,Y.
Twice nominated for the World Fantasy Award and twice for the Bram Stoker
Award. X,Y has recently been filmed. His latest novel is The Healer.
Robert Morrish: Editor of Cemetery Dance magazine and former
editor of The Scream Factory. His short fiction has appeared in more
than 20 anthologies, including Horrors!, Shivers, and Cold
Flesh.
Tamara Thorne: Ghost-chasing author of Haunted, Thunder Road,
Moonfall, and many more paranormal thrillers. “One of the best tellers
of dark fantasy tall-tales” – Cemetery Dance.
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