Tim Lucas: Throat Sprockets, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Throat Sprockets
- Publisher:
- Valancourt Books, 07/2025
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781960241276
- Item number:
- 12255816
- Volume:
- 280 Pages
- Weight:
- 281 g
- Format:
- 203 x 127 mm
- Thickness:
- 16 mm
- Release date:
- 22.7.2025
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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Price |
|---|---|
| Buch, Gebunden, Englisch | EUR 48.25* |
Blurb
In a fading old porno theater in a town called Friendship, a mild-mannered young advertising writer watches a movie called Throat Sprockets and is never the same again. As he becomes increasingly obsessed with the film, it infects him with a new erotic aesthetic that finds expression through his advertising work, spreading its vampiric influence on a local, national, and eventually international level. As his old life crumbles and a new one begins to take shape, he sets out on a quest to discover the secrets of the film's creation and the identity of its mysterious creator. Tim Lucas's genre-defying cult classic was featured in Stephen Jones and Kim Newman's Horror: 100 Best Books series and chosen by Rue Morgue as one of the Best Alt Horror Novels. This special 30th Anniversary Edition includes an introduction by Tananarive Due and a brand-new, novella-length penultimate chapter, filling in the past three decades of the protagonist's misadventure. "Throat Sprockets, a dark, brilliant crow in the literary sky, is terrifying and euphoric both in its portrayal of obsession. Lucas is a first-rate writer." - Alexander Theroux "To read Throat Sprockets is to understand that every vampire story before now has missed the mark." - Cosmopolitan "Genuinely kinky and perverse and smart." - Bret Easton Ellis "Witty and thoughtful and consistently surprising and above all deeply unsettling." - Ramsey Campbell "A chic and darkly humorous study of sexual obsession ... a witty reworking of the Dracula myth starched stiff with irony ... a stylish, provocative debut novel." - The Times "A brilliant novel." - Maxim "Be warned: this is no ordinary novel. I searched my bookshelves for apt comparisons, and soon realized that I could only invent them: Dracula rewritten by J. G. Ballard, Last Year at Marienbad directed by Mario Bava.... Here, at last, is what readers have been waiting for: a new, and very dark vision ... This is the most original and unnerving first novel that I've read in years. Stunning." - Douglas E. Winter