Amelia Beamer – författare

Kate and Michael are roommates living in the Oakland hills, working at the same Trader Joes supermarket. A night of drunken revelry changes their lives forever, but not in the way that anyone would expect. A slow-spreading plague of zombie-ism breaks out at their house party, spreading amongst their circle of friends, and simultaneously through the Bay Area. This zombie plague—an STD of sorts—is spread through sex and kissing, turning its victims into mindless, horny, voracious killers. Thrust into extremes by this slow- motion tragedy, Kate and Michael are forced to confront the choices they''ve made in their lives, and their fears of commitment, while trying to stay alive and reunite in the one place in the Bay Area that''s likely to be safe and secure from the zombie hoards: Alcatraz.

Welcome to the cool side of the 1950s, where the fast cars and revved-up movie monsters peel out in the night. Where outlaw vixens and jukebox tramps square off with razorblades and lead pipes. Where rockers rock, cool cats strut, and hot rods roar. Where you howl to the moon as the tiki drums pound and the electric guitar shrieks and that spit-and-holler jamboree ain’t gonna stop for a long, long time . . . maybe never.

This is the ’50s where ghost shows still travel the back roads of the south, and rockabilly has a hold on the nation’s youth; where lucky hearts tell the tale, and maybe that fella in the Shriners’ fez ain’t so square after all. Where exist noir detectives of the supernatural, tattoo artists of another kind, Hollywood fix-it men, and a punk kid with grasshopper arms under his chain-studded jacket and an icy stare on his face.

This is the ’50s of Pop the Clutch: Thrilling Tales of Rockabilly, Monsters, and Hot Rod Horror. This is your ticket to the dark side of American kitsch . . . the fun and frightful side!

Table of Contents includes:

“The Golden Girls of Fall” by Seanan McGuire“Sea Lords of the Columbia” by Weston Ochse“Tremble” by Kasey Lansdale and Joe R. Lansdale“The Demon of the Track” by Gary Phillips“Outlawed Ink” by Jason Starr“We Might Be Giants” by Nancy Holder“Universal Monster” by Duane Swierczynski“Draggers” by David J. Schow“The Starlite Drive-In” by John M. Floyd“Dr. Morbismo’s InsaniTERRORium Horror Show” by Lisa Morton“Hot Babe” by Bill Pronzini“The Prom Tree” by Yvonne Navarro“I’m with the Band” by Steve Perry“Mystery Train: An Arcane Investigation” by Max Allan Collins and Matthew V. Clemens“Lab Experiment Turf War” by Jeff Strand  “The She-Creature” by Amelia Beamer“Fish out of Water” by Will Viharo“I Was a Teenage Shroom Fiend” by Brian Hodge