It's October 1st, which means that Medallion Press' Trade Paperback edition of Fear Zone editor Gregory Lamberson's horror novel Johnny Gruesome is finally available in bookstores across North America! You can't be a regular reader of the Zone and be unaware that ye-old-editor has highjacked this site from time to time for his own nefarious needs, but now that Johnny Gruesome and CHEAP SCARES! Low Budget Horror Filmmakers Share Their Secrets are both available, the end of the hype machine is almost in sight and journalistic integrity can rear its noble head again.

Read Norman Rubenstein's review of Bad Moon Books' Limited Edition HC of JOHNNY GRUESOME here.

Read the on-line Johnny Gruesome comics, winner of the New York City Horror Film Festival's Best Comic Book, here.

Sample songs from the GRUESOME rock CD here.

Check out The Johnny Gruesome Death Mask here.

Watch the GRUESOME Music Video, starring Misty Mundae, here.

Watch the Book Trailer here.

And watch the documentary, JOHNNY GRUESOME: MEETING HIS MAKER, here.

BLURBS:

"If you like your horror fast and nasty, then take a ride with Johnny Gruesome. Gruesome is a loving and intelligent tribute to the classic splatter films that set the pace for modern horror. With sharp writing and an eye for detail. Lamberson masterfully brings a nightmare to life. Bold and trashy in all the right ways, Johnny Gruesome is a book (and a villain) you won't soon forget."
-- Lee Thomas, author of PARISH DAMNED and THE DUST of WONDERLAND

"Johnny Gruesome' is a rarity: bright and clever descriptions, an elusive sense of humor, and high-level pacing. I wish I had written it."
-- Herschell Gordon Lewis, The Godfather of Gore: Blood Feast and 2,000 Maniacs

"Sex, drugs, and rock n' roll are back, in the Death Mobile drivin', leather jacket-clad corpse of Johnny Gruesome, a man who lives up to his name in every sense of the word. The reader is advised to put some Alice Cooper on high volume, crack open a can of beer and dive right in. Be forewarned, however, this is one ride through the hell of high school and the wince-inducing gore of undead vengeance you may have to take more than once. In Johnny Gruesome, horror has a new hero."
-- Kealan Patrick Burke, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of CURRENCY OF SOULS, THE TURTLE BOY, and THE HIDES.

"Johnny Gruesome has a frightening sense of detail that makes it all the more horrific -- it's a gruesome ride that you can't stop reading."
-- Gunnar Hansen, "Leatherface" in the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre

"Any way you slice things, it just doesn't get any more gruesome than this. Greg Lamberson's Johnny Gruesome is a rotting fetid romp of a novel that shows you a little of life post-mortem for your average teenage headbanger. A B-movie nightmare recreated with loving fan-boy zeal, I give it an "F" for fun, freaky and foul fucked-up funk."
-- Steve Vernon Author of HARD ROADS Gray Friar Press

"Greg Lamberson's Johnny Gruesome is edgy, violent, supernaturally cool and the new undead king of quick-and-dirty horror. Johnny Gruesome spins the zombie genre into a fresh and ballsy hard-rock direction that just kills!"
-- Jonathan Maberry, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of GHOST ROAD BLUES and DEAD MAN'S SONG

"Johnny Gruesome has the potential to become an iconic horror character in the mold of such genre heavyweights as Freddy Krueger and Jason Vorhees. With a cinematic eye (what else can you expect from the man who directed such films as Slime City and Undying Love?), Gregory Lamberson gives us what could have been a great B- movie about revenge from beyond the grave, but which instead has been fleshed out and given richer life in the form of a novel. The result is a fun, compelling read with characters we care about."
-- L. L. Soares

"Gregory Lamberson's Johnny Gruesome isn't just your old run of the mill zombie tale. It's a smokin' hot, sexy, rockin' zombie adventure!"
-- Angeline Hawkes, Bram Stoker Award nominated author of THE COMMANDMENTS

SIGNINGS:

Saturday, October 4th
12 PM - 2 PM
Barnes & Noble
4401 Transit Road
Clarence, NY 14221

Wednesday, October 8th
7PM - 9 PM
Talking Leaves Bookstore
3158 Main Street
Buffalo, NY
Reading & Signing

Friday, October 10th
7 PM
Titles Bookstore, McMasters University
Hamilton, Ontario
Ghost Walk, reading, lecture
http://titles.mcmaster.ca

Saturday, Oct. 11th
12 PM - 2 PM
Borders
Eastern Hills Mall
Buffalo, NY 14221
Live appearance by Johnny Gruesome!

Saturday, Oct. 18th
1 PM - 3 PM
Barnes & Noble
5909 Peach Street
Erie, PA 16509
Promoted by the Eerie Horror Film Festival

Wednesday, October 22nd'
Fort Erie Public Library
Fort Erie, Canada

-same night-

Wednesday October 22nd
Coles Bookstore
Coles - Niagara Sq. S.C.
7555 Montrose Road,
Niagara Falls, Ontario L2H 2E9
Canada

Friday, Oct. 24th
7 PM - 9 PM
Barnes & Noble
Pittsford Plaza
3349 Monroe Avenue
Rochester, NY 14618

Oct. 25th & 26th
It's Alive Zombiefest (convention)
Monroeville Mall, PA
10 AM - 9:30 PM Saturday
Noon - 6 PM Sunday

Oct. 29th
Pelham Public Library in Canada
7 PM
With Derek Clendening
Elaine Anderson
Pelham Public Library
43 Pelham Town Square
Box 830
Fonthill, ON L0S 1E0
905.892.6443
http://www.pelhamlibrary.on.ca
http://www.pelhamlibrary.blogspot.com

Thursday, October 30th
Talking Leaves Books Elmwood
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
951 Elmwood Avenue
Signing only

Friday, October 31st
The Book Corner
(tentative time, 6P M - 9 PM)
1801 Main Street
Live music
Niagara Falls, NY 14305

Saturday, Nov. 1st
Time TBD
The Book Nook
D & F Plaza
Fredonia, NY

Saturday, Nov. 8th
Barnes & Noble
Time TBD
Clay Store
3956 Route 31
Liverpool, NY 13090


Sat, Nov. 15th
Barnes & Noble
131 Colonie Centre
Albany, NY 12205
Marisa

Wednesday, Nov. 19th
Talking Leaves Books Main Street
7:003158 Main Street
Buffalo, NY
7 PM - 9:00 PM
Signing CHEAP SCARES! and JOHNNY GRUESOME

Saturday, Nov. 22nd
2 PM -
Dark Delicacies
4213 W. Burbank
Burbank, Ca