Me, I'm biding my time, waiting to see what replaces Facebook.
Because the generations marching up behind today's population of iPhone addicts will want something all their own, instead of being obligated to use the devices and practices of their uncool older siblings, or their even more uncool parents.
Many people fail to remember how loudly the publishing industry was screaming and crying about publish-on-demand (POD) books. Those fools. Look at them now.
They ignored the prime directive of evolution: adapt to survive.
1994: The heyday of the Fangoria convention. The year The Crow came out.
In the meantime I was able to lend John Farris some spiritual payback, first in the form of sponsoring his first website, then by editing a collection of his short stories (Elvisland, coming soon from Crossroad Press), and finally by adapting his story "I Scream. You Scream. We All Scream for Ice Cream." into an episode of Masters of Horror, thereby providing the first screen credit John had enjoyed since 1978.
Flash forward, flash back as you please, but remember the lessons.
Just think how silly all this will seem in 2025, if we're still around.
— DJS
31 July 2012
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Shaft
Sedalia
A Week in the Unlife
Kamikaze Butterflies
Beggar's Banquet, with Summer Sausage
Pitt Night at the Lewistone Boneyard
Jerry's Kids Meet Wormboy
Life Partner
Last Call for the Sons of Shock
Where the Heart Was
Sand Sculpture
Bad Guy Hats
Perps