The anthology Silver Scream is back in print for the first time in 32 years! Originally published by Dark Harvest in 1988, Silver Scream ranks as one of the, if not the, best horror anthologies every published. Robert McCammon’s “Night Calls the Green Falcon” was first published in Silver Scream.
Cimarron Street Books is please to bring SILVER SCREAM back into print for the first time in over 30 years!
Please take your seat for the midnight show …
They’re all here from the heyday of splatterpunk, in the first and best anthology of cinema horror—the ultimate haunted theatre of the imagination, showcasing grindhouses, 3-for-1 fleapits, porn castles, werewolf-circuit drive-ins, snuff movies, peep shows, fly-by-night video rental shacks, has-been actors, never-was ingenues, Tinseltown burnouts, film cults, immortal stars, film school dorks, media mutants, and even that bastard little brother, television …
Here’s what Cimarron Street Books publisher John Scoleri posted to Facebook about the book:
I first encountered SILVER SCREAM (in hardcover and paperback) while I was working for B. Dalton in 1988. It was my introduction to the work of David J. Schow, who as editor didn’t actually have any fiction in the book—but he wrote the most compelling afterword to an anthology that I had ever read. I was an instant fan.
The list of contributing authors included many or biggest names in the horror field at the time: Clive Barker, Robert Bloch, Edward Bryant, Ramsey Campbell, Ray Garton, Joe R. Lansdale, RC Matheson, Robert McCammon, John Skipp, Craig Spector, Karl Edward Wagner, Chet Williamson, F Paul Wilson… along with great stories by several writers I was discovering for the first time: Mark Arnold, Steven Boyett, John M. Ford, Mick Garris, Jay Sheckley, and Douglas E. Winter.
It has been a dream come true to help bring this book back into print after more than 30 years. It wouldn’t have happened without the perseverance of David J. Schow and the support of each and every one of the contributing writers. Whether you remember it from back in the day, or missed out on it the first time around, I can assure you SILVER SCREAM still holds up, and is deserving of its billing as the “greatest original anthology of the 1980s.”
The trade paperback book can be ordered from Amazon US, Amazon UK, and Amazon CA.
Enjoy!
Audiobook publisher Spoken Realms is releasing an audiobook version of Silver Shamrock Publishing‘s Midnight in the Graveyard. The 2019 anthology included a reprint of Robert McCammon’s short story “Haunted World,” along with twenty-four other stories by other authors. This is the first audio adaptation of “Haunted World.”
