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Video Night

by Adam Cesare

A final movie night as an invasion begins

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A final movie night as an invasion begins

Set in 1988, the novel brings an alien invasion into the plans of two friends preparing to part ways after high school. Their gathering—pizza, beer, and a hoped-for double date—takes on a different urgency as the infection spreads nearby. The setup pairs slasher-horror elements with the changing bond between Billy and Tom, placing friendship and impending adulthood alongside the threat from beyond Earth. The source also signals a mix of rock-and-roll and body-horror imagery within this teen-centered story.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in slasher horror and alien-invasion stories.
  • Those drawn to horror with a late-1980s setting and rock-and-roll elements.
  • Readers seeking stories that connect teen friendship and life changes with horror.

Themes

Alien invasion and infectionTeen friendshipThe transition to adulthoodSlasher horror1980s culture

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Book overview

Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets The Breakfast Club in this thrilling horror novel by the bestselling author of Clown In a Cornfield--now with a new forward by Stephen Graham Jones.

"One of the most talented and engaging voices of horror fiction's newest wave." --Gabino Iglesias, author of The Devil Takes You Home

It's 1988 and two best friends--one departing for college, one destined for bad boy townie life--decide to have a final video night before their friendship changes forever. Billy and Tom's plan is perfect. They've got pizza and beer, and Tom even managed to convince his girlfriend, Darcy, to bring a friend, Billy's neighbor and crush, Rachel. But what they don't know is that there's an invasion underway.

Across the street, Rachel's sister, Rhonda, was one of the first to turn. A slithering, chitinous evil has overtaken her body and mind, and she'll do anything to spread the alien infection. Blood, sex, rock and roll, invaders from outer space, and tender perspectives on teen male friendship: Video Night is one cult classic that has it all!

"The writing moves like a greased torpedo, compulsively readable as it rockets through your brain." --Fangoria

"Hit that first chapter. It'll hook you, and the next time you look up, you'll have swallowed the book. It'll be nesting inside you like a seed, like an egg, like an invasion." --Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author of My Heart Is a Chainsaw
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