Midnight Graffiti

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Among those I found to be particularly unreadable: "The Domino Man," "Salvation," and most of all, "Rant" by Nancy A.

I had never heard of the publication "Midnight Graffiti" before, but I wish more publications like it existed now. The final story, "Dark Embrace," comes from (mercifully silent) co-editor James Van Hise and is an adroit, if somewhat predictable, story of a boy who is forced to mature with cruel haste. His award-winning short story "The River Styx Runs Upstream" is easily one of my favorite short stories, ever. Horror is the only medium that regularly succeeds in relating the momunmental strangness of the world in an accessible, cathartic manner.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. All text (except quotes) is the property of Will Errickson and should not be reproduced in whole or in part without permission from the author. A good number of the stories rely too heavily on Reagan/Bush-era shock factor, which is horribly dated and uninteresting in 2018. After that, the remainder is really bad: very short tales “Cattletruck” by Cliff Burns and “Salvation” by Lawrence Person are both rather pointless and lame while striving to be meaningful and thought-provoking, and Joe Lansdale’s attempt at comedy with “Bob the Dinosaur Goes to Disneyland” falls flat.

Here it was, tangible proof that not only do I kick ass, but have been kicking ass since back in ‘the day’. Under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, King has written the books The Running Man, The Regulators, Thinner, The Long Walk, Roadwork, Rage, and It.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Midnight Graffiti (Warner Books, Oct 1992) is an engaging anthology from the now-defunct magazine of the same name from the late '80s.

W. JETER, and JOHN SHIRLEY all bring you original tales from the farthest corners of the imagination that until now could only be found in the horror-haunted pages of .

Eight issues were published in total, seven between 1988-1992, with the final Winter 1994/1995 issue (''Midnight Graffiti Special'') appearing several years later.Could I possibly be any more slick, digging the ‘cutting edge’ of contemporary fare while my foolish, conformist peers wasted their time scrutinizing some 100-year old, irrelevant piece of shit? Some stories though, were a bit tough to get through and I found myself grinding through them to get to the next one. It turns out that the cover illustration is actually by some total fraud named Martin Cannon, just some unfortunate slob without an original style of his own, proving he’s capable of producing something as derivative as possible of the style of Giger, sans talent. It's a fascinating look at horror, how it's changed over the years due to society, and why we're so entranced by horror novels/movies.