David James Keaton - Free Library Land Online - Memoir

HEAD CLEANER final text

Fri, 11 Oct 1991 14:25:32 +0200

Dirty Boulevard

Thu, 11 Oct 2018 14:25:33 +0300

Inspired by the outcasts, outlaws, and other outré inhabitants of rock legend Lou Reed's songbook, Dirty Boulevard traffics in crime fiction that's sometimes velvety and sometimes vicious, but always, absolutely, rock & roll. Inside, you'll find stories from the fire escapes to the underground, stories filled with metal machine music, stories for gender-bending, rule-breaking, mind-blasting midnight revelries and drunken, dangerous, dark nights of the heart.

Upcoming genre stars like Alison Gaylin team up with crime fiction legends such as Reed Farrel Coleman, along with Cate Holahan, Gabino Iglesias, Tony McMillen, and many of the most exciting new names in crime and horror fiction, who teach us that a perfect day is often anything but, that the power of positive drinking is a destructive force rarely contained, and that knock-down-drag-out drag queens are probably way tougher than you.

She Was Found in a Guitar Case

Thu, 16 Dec 2021 09:31:48 +0200

"A CULT CLASSIC WAITING ON ITS CULT."
—William Boyle, author of City of Margins

Recently fired from his job, Dave sets out on a manic, misguided quest for answers up the food chain of law enforcement corruption and down the increasingly bizarre Florida coastline. Battling cops, biker gangs, backwoods Bigfoot hunters, and getting tangled in tourist traps (both figurative and literal), he eventually stumbles onto a conspiracy involving body cameras, love locks, and a grand psychological experiment which may reveal the revolving doors and invisible walls of the nation's prison system.

Head Cleaner

Sat, 18 Mar 2023 15:51:46 +0200

HEAD CLEANER is a hugely original blend of thriller, science fiction, and horror that takes our love of nostalgia to task for its morbid obsessions with dead media and dead-end jobs: Clerks meets Black Mirror (with a little Groundhog Day and Russian Doll thrown in for good measure):

The last Blockbuster video store in the United States is hanging on by a thread. And after a crazy night attempting to track down a lost VCR rental to collect the record-setting and internet-famous late fee, three employees, idealistic Eva, cinephile Jerry, and their tyrannical manager Randy, discover that this machine may actually have the power to change the endings of popular films, which, depending on the historical basis of the film, might also be changing the real world around them.
Or could this just be an elaborate, increasingly deadly prank?
When they begin receiving videotapes and voicemails seemingly depicting their deaths, Eva, Jerry, and...

Zee Bee & Bee

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:42:32 +0200

Review

"Keaton combines smart, subversive high-mindedness with flat-out genre thrills like no one working today, and Zee Bee & Bee pulls off that balance about as well as you could hope for. It works just as well as an odd, slightly silly, weirdly romantic horror comedy, a heartfelt love letter to the width and breadth of zombie culture, and a wild and witty deconstruction of everything that's come before it."
-David Tallerman - Writing On The Moon "_Zee Bee & Bee (a.k.a. Propeller Hats for the Dead)_ by David James Keaton offers an insightful riff on trend horror and contemporary pop culture very much akin that of early-'90s Wes Craven."
-Michael Compton - Fangoria Magazine "Unfortunately, I just couldn't get into the writing style."
-Sarah Jahier - Fatally Yours "David James Keaton gnaws his tongue-in-cheek to a bloody stump in Zee Bee & Bee, a slick stream-of-consciousness (consciousness? zombies?) tale. On its surface, the snarky narrative seems almost too clever, but read beyond the obvious genre affection and surprisingly heart-felt details of everyday life and you come away with a strange nostalgia and fear for a self-absorbed culture's obsession with their next slice of entertainment."
-Walt Hicks - Page Horrific "There is some pretty clever dialogue that horror fans will appreciate though."
-Sarah Jahier - Fatally Yours

"Calling all zombiephiles (is that a word? who better to ask?) This is one zombie experience you don't want to wait until you're dead to have. Get your "Z" Love on. D.J.K. is the Zombie Man."
-Randy Chandler - author of Daemon of the Dark Wood and Dime Detective__

"B-B-B-Bollocks!"
-King George VI

Product Description

Told from the perspective of the sluggish employee of a "Zombie Bed & Breakfast" tourist trap, this horrific love letter (and middle finger) to the zombie capital of the world, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, chronicles the daily workings of a staged zombie assault and rehearsal of an apocalyptic scenario. The question of whether the cast are really attacking hotel guests, who is dead, alive, or just annoying as hell will be answered in a satisfyingly gruesome manner, sparked by an undead love triangle and a tipping point of post-modern, pop-culture references. Author David James Keaton first attempted to finance and run a Zombie Bed & Breakfast similar to the tragedy depicted here. However, this misguided get-rich quick scheme ended in disaster. Read this thinly veiled, fictionalized account of one tiny apocalypse, and do not let those poor souls dine in vain.

Hard Sentences: Crime Fiction Inspired by Alcatraz

Tue, 14 Nov 2017 11:19:25 +0200

Inside these walls, you'll find 19 stories detailing the cold, strange history of The Rock, nightmares real and imagined, including the deadly, acid-induced legacy of Whitey Bulger, Al Capone's final days, as well as dark tales of Robert "Birdman" Stroud, Creepy Karpis, and other less-notorious but equally memorable prisoners. Re-live the Civil War incarnation of Alcatraz, sample the prison's famous mess hall menu, and discover specters of the '70s Native American occupation who still haunt the crumbling halls. Read previously unreleased transcripts outlining wild plans and long-buried secrets. Experience the day-to-day routine of Alcatraz families, which included 80 children, who tried to go about life as as usual on the island, every day playing within earshot of murderers. Learn what it takes to squeeze through the bars of a cell and why a man is sometimes better off simply serving his sentence. And find out what really happened in June of 1962 when Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers escaped the prison, only to disappear forever.
Over 5,000 tourists travel to Alcatraz every day, drawn to the lonely clang of those steel doors, trying to catch glimpses of the shadows of those 1,500 former prisoners.
Now you can take this experience home and read about it in solitude rather than solitary!

The Last Projector

Fri, 14 Nov 2014 11:42:32 +0200