Attack From the '80s

Modern technology has brought some new twists and turns to horror. Found footage, cell phone-based viruses, literal ghosts in the machines but maybe it's time for a throwback. It's time for some new tales of slumber party horrors, VCR monsters, and problems that can't be solved with a smart phone. We want tales of unstoppable monsters, sewer-dwelling creatures, looming threats of cold-war chaos. Give us fear under the neon lights of an arcade, people fighting for their lives against the backdrop of a hot city night and a cheesy sax solo. Take us back to a time when latchkey kids had to fend for themselves and the only thing left to stop an unspeakable horror was a plucky band of high school kids. Make it bloody. Make it gnarly. Make it 80s!



Featuring over 20 Bram Stoker Award winning and Best Selling Authors such as Joe R. Lansdale, Kasey Lansdale, Weston Ochse, Lisa Morton, Grady Hendrix, Tim Waggoner, Christina Sng, Stephanie M. Wytovich, Jess Landry, Vince Liaguno, F. Paul Wilson, John Skipp, Linda D Addison and many more.

"Reading Attack from the '80s brings on a nostalgia tinged with blood. It's like being impaled on a time machine and dragged through sickly houses haunted by serial killers, spooky fairgrounds where kids vanish, woodlands stalked by unnameable beasts ... and it is wonderful. I'm in my teens again, and the horrors are more terrifying than ever." -Tim Lebbon, author of Eden



"Attack from the '80s sends us rollicking back into the pop culture madness of that genre, and does it with creeps, fun, and great storytelling from today's top horror writers!" -Jonathan Maberry, NY Times bestselling author of Ink and Rot & Ruin



"Deliriously, deliciously gruesome, Attack from the '80s is a treat for horror fans looking for the hard stuff. An all-star lineup of writers inspired by that gnarliest of decades. Rad!" -David Wellington, Marvel Zombies, Monster Island



Table of ContentsIntroduction by Mick Garris

Top Guns of the Frontier by Weston Ochse

Snapshot by Joe R. Lansdale and Kasey Lansdale

The Devil in the Details by Ben Monroe

Return of the Reanimated Nightmare by Linda Addison

Taking the Night Train by Thomas F. Monteleone

Catastrophe Queens by Jess Landry

Your Picture Here by John Skipp

Permanent Damage by Lee Murray

Slashbacks by Tim Waggoner

Munchies by Lucy A. Snyder

Ten Miles of Bad Road by Stephen Graham Jones

Epoch, Rewound by Vince A. Liaguno

Demonic Denizens by Cullen Bunn

The White Room by Rena Mason

Ghetto Blaster by Jeff Strand

Haddonfield, New Jersey 1980 by Cindy O'Quinn

When He Was Fab by F. Paul Wilson

Welcome to Hell by Christina Sng

Perspective: Journal of a 1980s Mad Man by Mort Castle

Mother Knows Best by Stephanie M. Wytovich

Stranger Danger by Grady Hendrix

The Garden of Dr. Moreau by Lisa Morton