Happy Birthday, BELA LUGOSI'S DEAD!

Exactly one year ago today, Crossroad Press published my second novel, BELA LUGOSI'S DEAD. Feel free to celebrate the occasion by voting for BELA LUGOSI'S DEAD in the 20th Annual Rondo Awards! Yes, BELA LUGOSI'S DEAD has been nominated for "Best Classic Horror Fiction" (alongside such novels as THE FINAL GIRL SUPPORT GROUP by Grady Hendrix and MY HEART IS A CHAINSAW by Stephen Graham Jones). Since ANYONE can vote in the Rondo Awards, YOU CAN CAST YOUR VOTE FOR BELA LUGOSI'S DEAD IN 3 EASY STEPS....

1. Copy-and-paste the ballot below into an e-mail.
 
2. Choose BELA LUGOSI'S DEAD in the BEST CLASSIC HORROR FICTION category.
 
3. Then email to David Colton (taraco@aol.com) by midnight on April 17th, 2022.

Don’t forget to include your name in the e-mail!

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BEST CLASSIC HORROR FICTION:
— BELA LUGOSI’S DEAD, by Robert Guffey (Macabre Ink, softcover, 264 pages, $17.99). A search for the lost Lugosi test footage from Frankenstein leads to an impossible choice.

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“Blending intertextual rampage through the horror-movie canon with engrossing noir mystery and a backdrop of Hollywood esoterica, Robert Guffey serves up an intoxicating pulp cocktail that will leave you wanting more. A crepuscular treasure from a fascinating author.”

--ALAN MOORE, author of V FOR VENDETTA and WATCHMEN

“In Robert Guffey's latest and greatest novel, dreams of old movies and nightmares of classic horror rack into sharp focus through the lens of a brave film historian, one determined to squint clearly at fleeting grains of film through the shifting sands of time. Never has the truth of Hollywood been so well revealed through fiction. As a result, BELA LUGOSI'S DEAD delightfully and definitively proves that Bela Lugosi isn't dead.” 

--GARY D. RHODES, author of LUGOSI and TOD BROWNING'S DRACULA

"[H]orror fans will delight in how Guffey cleverly immerses movie monsters in the real world. Film buffs and monster enthusiasts will relish the supernatural characters brought to life in this atmospheric celebration of monster mayhem."

--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

"The sensation [of reading BELA LUGOSI'S DEAD] is like being led deep underground while your flashlight grows dimmer and dimmer, until you’re left in total darkness. That’s when the lights of a subterranean crypt flash on to reveal that you’re not where you expected to be, and where you are is far worse than you could have imagined. The result is an ending that left me chilled and took me a few days to fully process. As shocking as it was, everything was set up from the beginning. I know, I went back and checked, and have to give Guffey credit for pulling off a literary sleight of hand that caught me by surprise. I won’t spoil it with more, except to say that like the frog in water that’s warmed so slowly it doesn’t realize it’s coming to a lethal boil, Guffey’s readers face an equally stunning conclusion."

--TERENCE TAYLOR, NIGHTMARE MAGAZINE