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dantastic's review
3.0
When a recently fired TV host takes the station hostage, Danny Chambers, along with the other viewers, is forced to watch the host's six favorite movies with the police waiting in the wings.
Using a hostage situation at a TV station as a framing device, All-Night Terror is a collection of six horror tales (and four bonus tales in the appendix.) It feels very much like Creepshow or one of any number of anthology horror films that came out in the 1980s.
As with any collection, some of the tales are better than others. Of the ten, Killing Time in the Off-Season, Appraisal, and Bringing Down The Giants were my favorites. Appraisal was genuinely scary. The others were just horror movie style fun.
It's not a game changer but it's a damn fun read. In the Afterword, Adam Cesare mentions that it was written to get people to try his and Matt Serafini's other works. In that, it has succeeded since I'm chomping at the bit to read [b:Video Night|15814694|Video Night|Adam Cesare|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1344750997s/15814694.jpg|21541146]. Three out of five stars.
Using a hostage situation at a TV station as a framing device, All-Night Terror is a collection of six horror tales (and four bonus tales in the appendix.) It feels very much like Creepshow or one of any number of anthology horror films that came out in the 1980s.
As with any collection, some of the tales are better than others. Of the ten, Killing Time in the Off-Season, Appraisal, and Bringing Down The Giants were my favorites. Appraisal was genuinely scary. The others were just horror movie style fun.
It's not a game changer but it's a damn fun read. In the Afterword, Adam Cesare mentions that it was written to get people to try his and Matt Serafini's other works. In that, it has succeeded since I'm chomping at the bit to read [b:Video Night|15814694|Video Night|Adam Cesare|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1344750997s/15814694.jpg|21541146]. Three out of five stars.
lucasm12333's review
4.0
Awesome
Excellent collection of short stories with a cool wrap around story. I can easily picture this being made into an anthology horror film.
Excellent collection of short stories with a cool wrap around story. I can easily picture this being made into an anthology horror film.
mrfrank's review
3.0
ALL-NIGHT TERROR by Adam Cesare and Matt Serafini is a collection of short stories woven around the idea that you are watching a late night horror showcase on TV. The stories within embrace that notion, presenting a bevvy of tried and true late night monsters and chills. Interspersed between the 'movies' are clips of a late night movie host (like Zacherly) gone crazy and bringing you, the audience, the ultimate reality show experience.
None of the stories are credited to either of the authors specifically. I have to assume most of the stories are written by one or the other though there may have been a bit of collaboration on some of the horror show host pieces. In this release of the book, by Sinister Grin Press, the original work has been bolstered with four new stories at the end. All the stories are really good, some better than others. My only criticism would be that the intertwined story of the crazy horror show host ends where the original piece ends and you lose the 'watching television' mood with the added stories at the end. A minor thing to be sure.
ALL-NIGHT TERROR is a must read for anyone who stayed up late, drinking sugary soda and munching on salty, salty snacks, huddled up under your covers watching cheesy horror B-movies that were way better than their budgets would suggest. I am definitely going to seek out Cesare and Serafini's stand alone work. They have the shine.
None of the stories are credited to either of the authors specifically. I have to assume most of the stories are written by one or the other though there may have been a bit of collaboration on some of the horror show host pieces. In this release of the book, by Sinister Grin Press, the original work has been bolstered with four new stories at the end. All the stories are really good, some better than others. My only criticism would be that the intertwined story of the crazy horror show host ends where the original piece ends and you lose the 'watching television' mood with the added stories at the end. A minor thing to be sure.
ALL-NIGHT TERROR is a must read for anyone who stayed up late, drinking sugary soda and munching on salty, salty snacks, huddled up under your covers watching cheesy horror B-movies that were way better than their budgets would suggest. I am definitely going to seek out Cesare and Serafini's stand alone work. They have the shine.
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