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The Dead Man #12
Midnight Special
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DINNER AT THE BROOKLYN MORGUE is more than just a seventies zombie flick. It’s also a cursed movie. A trail of violence and murder has followed the film’s re-release across the country and Matt Cahill is determined to find out why...and put an end to the madness. His quest takes him to L.A., where he infiltrates the inner circle of the Tarantino-like director who’s behind the rediscovery of this piece of cinematic horror and is either a tool of Mr. Dark…or the evil entity’s most formidable enemy. The truth comes out in a night of unmitigated terror that will either put an end to Mr. Dark’s reign of evil…or mark a blood-soaked new beginning…
DINNER AT THE BROOKLYN MORGUE is more than just a seventies zombie flick. It’s also a cursed movie. A trail of violence and murder has followed the film’s re-release across the country and Matt Cahill is determined to find out why...and put an end to the madness. His quest takes him to L.A., where he infiltrates the inner circle of the Tarantino-like director who’s behind the rediscovery of this piece of cinematic horror and is either a tool of Mr. Dark…or the evil entity’s most formidable enemy. The truth comes out in a night of unmitigated terror that will either put an end to Mr. Dark’s reign of evil…or mark a blood-soaked new beginning…
- GenresHorror
121 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 26, 2012
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About the author
Phoef Sutton
20 books127 followersPhoef Sutton started as an actor and playwright in college; he was lucky enough to go to a small liberal arts college in Virginia, James Madison University, which encouraged student playwrights. Phoef was one of the only undergraduates to win the Norman Lear Award for Comedy Playwriting. After graduation, Phoef had plays produced at various regional theaters around the country, had his award winning play BURIAL CUSTOMS selected for publication by the Theatre Communications Group and was awarded a National Endowment for Arts Playwrights Fellowship.
After marrying and moving to Los Angeles, Phoef started his career at the NBC television show CHEERS. He stayed with the show for eight years, working his way up from staff writer to executive producer, winning two Emmys and a Writer’s Guild Award. A greater training ground for a writer could not be imagined.
After CHEERS, Phoef has produced and created a number of television shows and consulted on others, including NEWS RADIO and BOSTON LEGAL. He is honored to have won a Peabody Award, a GLAAD award and a Television Academy Honors award for this work on BOSTON LEGAL. Recently, he has worked on critically acclaimed series TERRIERS for FX and THE SOUL MAN for TV Land, DEFIANCE for SyFy Channel and ALPHA HOUSE for Amazon.
He has directed a short film – a suspense tale called ‘TIL DEATH. ‘TIL DEATH has been shown and various film festivals around the world and received prizes at the Garden State Festival and WorldFest in Houston, Texas.
Phoef has also worked for many years as a screenwriter and script doctor. MRS. WINTERBOURNE, directed by Richard Benjamin was an adaptation of a novel by one of his favorite authors, Cornell Woolrich. THE FAN, directed by Tony Scott and starring Robert DeNiro was an adaptation of the novel by Peter Abrahams.
Phoef is a published novelist – FIFTEEN MINUTES TO LIVE, a romantic-thriller; DEAD MAN: THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL, a horror novel and its sequel DEAD MAN REBORN.
2015 is a promising year for Phoef, with the debut of his collaborations with Janet Evanovich, WICKED CHARMS and publication of his hard-boiled crime novel CRUSH.
Phoef lives in South Pasadena, California with his wife Dawn and his daughters Skylar and Celia.
After marrying and moving to Los Angeles, Phoef started his career at the NBC television show CHEERS. He stayed with the show for eight years, working his way up from staff writer to executive producer, winning two Emmys and a Writer’s Guild Award. A greater training ground for a writer could not be imagined.
After CHEERS, Phoef has produced and created a number of television shows and consulted on others, including NEWS RADIO and BOSTON LEGAL. He is honored to have won a Peabody Award, a GLAAD award and a Television Academy Honors award for this work on BOSTON LEGAL. Recently, he has worked on critically acclaimed series TERRIERS for FX and THE SOUL MAN for TV Land, DEFIANCE for SyFy Channel and ALPHA HOUSE for Amazon.
He has directed a short film – a suspense tale called ‘TIL DEATH. ‘TIL DEATH has been shown and various film festivals around the world and received prizes at the Garden State Festival and WorldFest in Houston, Texas.
Phoef has also worked for many years as a screenwriter and script doctor. MRS. WINTERBOURNE, directed by Richard Benjamin was an adaptation of a novel by one of his favorite authors, Cornell Woolrich. THE FAN, directed by Tony Scott and starring Robert DeNiro was an adaptation of the novel by Peter Abrahams.
Phoef is a published novelist – FIFTEEN MINUTES TO LIVE, a romantic-thriller; DEAD MAN: THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL, a horror novel and its sequel DEAD MAN REBORN.
2015 is a promising year for Phoef, with the debut of his collaborations with Janet Evanovich, WICKED CHARMS and publication of his hard-boiled crime novel CRUSH.
Phoef lives in South Pasadena, California with his wife Dawn and his daughters Skylar and Celia.
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Displaying 1 - 9 of 9 reviews
September 16, 2012
The Dead Man Matt Cahill is pursuing an old seventies movies that seems to bring death at every showing. It's first release in 1974, then taken out of circulation, once in the nineties, and now death was following it on a short circuit of showings. In every case, a single word had been left, usually in blood, in various languages, depending on the ancestry of the killer, that translated as dark!
Matt Cahill's enemy that he'd seen ever since coming back from three months dead in an avalanche, along with the rotting, maggot infested flesh that only he could see in folks about to go crazy.
Matt and his father's ax had been pursuing evil ever since his return to life. Mr. dark always had something new for him.
No different this time.
These keep getting better
Matt Cahill's enemy that he'd seen ever since coming back from three months dead in an avalanche, along with the rotting, maggot infested flesh that only he could see in folks about to go crazy.
Matt and his father's ax had been pursuing evil ever since his return to life. Mr. dark always had something new for him.
No different this time.
These keep getting better
September 25, 2016
This novella was pretty good (and of the 3 in the 3 in 1 book, this is the best to me). This was also the longest novella of the three, which did help as the author was able to flesh out the story more than the others. This one does not deviate from the standard TV series formula which works really well in this series, and you can tell all the writers have their background in TV shows. Matt's trail following Mr. Dark takes him to the world of cinema (B-Movies), and a specific movie that seems to have a curse that further's Mr. Dark's plans...Matt needs to stop this movie from being shown publicly.
January 17, 2013
A solid entry as Matt and his axe end up chasing down a Grindhouse styled "lost film" (a play on an alternate title to a cool Jorge Grau zombie film)...and the damn thing summons violence, mayhem and Mr. Dark.
Sutton's prose is fast and he fleshes out some good characters with minimum exposition while having fun using what would appear to be a zombie Quentin Tarantino and even includes a fun gender swap tagline for "the tall man" with GIRL!
For fans of trashy cinema this entry will be especially fun.
Sutton's prose is fast and he fleshes out some good characters with minimum exposition while having fun using what would appear to be a zombie Quentin Tarantino and even includes a fun gender swap tagline for "the tall man" with GIRL!
For fans of trashy cinema this entry will be especially fun.
August 1, 2013
I have only just begun reading this, but already am awarding this a high grade based on chapter 1. I've always hated inconsiderate movie audiences, and that chapter just made me go, "Yes!"
Ok, done. I enjoyed this one the most.
Ok, done. I enjoyed this one the most.
November 10, 2013
Easily one of the best books in the Dead Man series, told with style and wit and more than a few surprises. Even though Matt Cahill wins in the end, everyone still loses, giving this book a haunting flavor that will linger.
August 4, 2012
Mr. Dark takes a vicious turn toward the mystical, which makes this a fun read. The cult movie references are added treats for any geeks out there.
August 7, 2014
Review coming soon.
August 29, 2016
This Dead Man entry had some really neat and creepy ideas mixed in with the gore, along with a nice line in horror movie homage. Definitely one of the better books in the series
February 28, 2013
everything you want and expect from the Dead Man series
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