Hello? Hello? Can anyone hear us? There are survivors in Austin! I repeat: there are survivors in Austin! Over! If anyone can hear this, we are broadcasting at 1600 kHz from a secure location in downtown Austin. We have reason to suspect that the Nightmare Factory may be the last book club on Earth. As of our last transmission, it has been confirmed that the infected greatly outnumber the living in the greater metropolitan area. For the most part, they stay indoors during the sweltering summer days, either dozing away their nightmarish, cannibalistic urges or reading…always reading…their sinister grimoires. The city isn’t safe at night. The infected slither from their nests and seek out living flesh to bite and rend from the bone. The nature of the virus commands its victims to spread the horrible contagion until every living thing is under its control. However, the Nightmare Factory book club has prepared a stronghold for the uninfected. If there is anyone left alive to receive this signal, we will rendezvous tonight at 8:00 p.m. in the bunker of BookPeople’s cafe to go over our global pandemic survival strategies and discuss The Missing by Sarah Langan, assuming no one has any more pressing business. We hope to see you there. We’re all in this together. Over and out.
In The Missing, Sarah Langan takes the reader on a guided tour of a supernatural armageddon. The opening movements of this epidemic doomsday are inauspicious enough: a few people come down with a mild chest cold, a child goes missing, someone gets devoured by a swarm of raccoons, and a woman is compelled to eat handful after handful of haunted dirt. Nothing too far out of the ordinary. From there, however, the situation spirals out of control until the entire town of Corpus Christi, Maine (and maybe the whole eastern seaboard) is under the spell of an unstoppable, paranormal virus. Join the Nightmare Factory book club tonight at 8:00 p.m. in the BookPeople cafe to talk about The Missing and the end of the world. We’ll be the ones wearing the full-body Hazmat suits.
The Nightmare Factory book club meets on the third Tuesday of every month in BookPeople’s cafe at 8:00 p.m. to discuss literary horror, from the 19th Century trailblazers of weird fiction to the present, postmodern proprietors of existential, bio-shock terror. We never fail to host a rousing roundtable chat, so come down tonight to talk about your favorite moments from this genre or any other. We’re always on the lookout for a new victim…err…friend. Wait. No, “victim” was more accurate.
~Post by Steven
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I have a sinister feeling that these “last-days” writers and movie makers have some information they are not telling us about, in fact I believe they are sworn not to tell us but they feed us with what they are told. Pls could I get full gist of the round-table?
I miss Austin. And I miss BookPeople!