A Life in the Cinema - Mick Garris

Written by Mick Garris
Read by Joe R. Lansdale, Mick Garris, Steven Weber, Matt Frewer, Miguel Ferrer
Format: MP3
Unabridged

Introduction by Stephen King, afterword by Tobe Hooper, cover art by Clive Barker. For this special audio version, the introduction and afterword are by Joe R. Lansdale, and the stories are read by Garris mainstays Matt Frewer, Miguel Ferrer, Steven Weber, and the author himself.

A Life in the Cinema is the first book from award-winning filmmaker Mick Garris. It is a collection of eight prickly tales that reach under the skin of real life and reel life to take you places you never realized you wanted to go.

The title story “A Life in the Cinema” and its sequel “Starfucker”, are set in the author’s hometown of Hollywood and provide a yellow-jaundiced look at a world you only thought was glamorous.

As Stephen King, in his introduction, says: “Here is a real Hollywood insider writing about the real inside world of filmmaking: the good, the bad, and the cheesy. These stories are both erotic and cynical, but they are, above all, well and fiercely told - when he’s yarning about the tarnished tinsel underbelly of the town he knows (and clearly loves) the best, Mick Garris writes like a combination of Robert Bloch and James Ellroy, hard-boiled noir with a ghastly little prink of the devil’s own pitchfork.”

Not all of the stories are Hollywood-based: Garris includes tales of a grandmother who is just as loving in death as she was in life, a geriatric trailer park with a randy secret, wistful and impossible love with a twist, the wrong kind of baby love, and a deathly brush with fame.

So, welcome to a dark side of Hollywood you’ve never seen before…