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Shock Rock Reviews:
DELICIOUSLY SCARY!
2008-08-04 - This whole cd is very scary, but I especially love Bill Mumy's story "The Black '59." He reads this story in a way that only Bill can! I also got the book "Comic Prose" and read it before I heard Bill's interpretation. Good read and good listen! I love Bill reading on audio because he puts such enthusiasm into each sentence making you really get drawn into the storyline. No one can read an audio reading like Bill can! This cd is a must! It is deliciously scary, indeed! I like to pull it out and listen to it during thunder storms when the power is out. HAHAHA! Now, that's a good time...a real good time!


There is Always an Empty Seat on the Whammy Bar Express to the Downstairs Eternal...
2005-09-29 - "Shock Rock" defied expectations as a surprisingly above-average collection. Nonetheless, several of these tales belong in the accursed hellhole of the bargain bin: "Voodoo Child" by Graham Masterson is uneventful; "You Know they Got a Hell of a Band" by Stephen King is deadly dull; the colloboration between Billy Mummy and Peter David, "The Black '59", is unimaginative. The largest disappointment is John Byrne's "Hide in Plain Sight", an amateurish sex romp with an obvious conclusion that reads like it was written by a 14-year-old boy with a hard-on. JOHN BYRNE!! THE GUY WHO DREW THE FANTASTIC FOUR--SUPERMAN--X MEN!! WHAT THE HECKFIRE, BYRNIE!?! The last two tales in the collection, "Flaming Telepaths" and "Addicted to Love", are two great stories that bring down the curtain. "Bunky" is a caffeinated sugar-high that takes a couple reads to comprehend, but it is a worthy contribution. METALLICA DIED WITH CLIFF!!!


Scary but unimaginative
2001-07-17 - Good horror books on audio are hard to come by so when I came across this title I bought it right away. The stories in this collection are scary, and some will down right give you the creeps but as you listen on, you start to notice that each story is more or less like the last just altered a bit and given a new title. Simply put there are too many "the dead come back" stories in this anthology for my liking. Horror stories can be so much more. How about a Psycho or haunted song or haunted music store even. there was none of that. There were a lot of dead rockers coming back to kill or avenge and again some of the stories were truly frightening. My rating is actually 3.5 stars but it would have easily gotten 5 if there was more variety to it. It is read by various readers including Joan Jett which in my personal opinion should stick to singing. Her flat delivery does nothing for me. I'm glad the stories weren't sugar coated and that there were swear words abound. Drugs and sex of course were mentioned often though all were heterocentric, more variety there would have been nice as well. Overall, a good audio production I would recommended and it does come with a bonus cassette filled with rock songs.

The best of rock n"roll and horror combined !
1999-07-18 - This is an excellent book combining the best of rock and horror fiction. See my review of Shock Rock 2, a continuation of this fine anthology.

Blood n' Guts & Rock n' Roll
1998-10-14 - As a connoisseur of horror in general and horror fiction anthologies in specific, I have to say that this collection is one of the finest available. The intro by the father of shock rock himself, Alice Cooper, gets the book off to a roaring start. The stories that follow do not disappoint, ( a hallmark of editor Jeff Gelb's other anthology work), and makes this a must have for anyone who enjoys rock n' roll, and horror. Mr. Gelb, a second volume please?