Throat Sprockets

<p>In a fading old porno theater in a town called Friendship a mild-mannered young advertising writer watches a movie called<em> Throat Sprockets </em>and is never the same again. As he becomes increasingly obsessed with the film it infects him with a new erotic aesthetic that finds expression through his advertising work spreading its vampiric influence on a local national and eventually international level. As his old life crumbles and a new one begins to take shape he sets out on a quest to discover the secrets of the film's creation and the identity of its mysterious creator.</p><p>Tim Lucas's genre-defying cult classic was featured in Stephen Jones and Kim Newman's <em>Horror: 100 Best Books </em>series and chosen by<em> Rue Morgue</em> as one of the Best Alt Horror Novels. This special 30th Anniversary Edition includes an introduction by Tananarive Due and a brand-new novella-length penultimate chapter filling in the past three decades of the protagonist's misadventure.</p><p><em>Throat Sprockets</em> a dark brilliant crow in the literary sky is terrifying and euphoric both in its portrayal of obsession. Lucas is a first-rate writer. - Alexander Theroux</p><p>To read <em>Throat Sprockets</em> is to understand that every vampire story before now has missed the mark. - <em>Cosmopolitan</em></p><p>Genuinely kinky and perverse and smart. - Bret Easton Ellis</p><p>Witty and thoughtful and consistently surprising and above all deeply unsettling. - Ramsey Campbell</p><p>A chic and darkly humorous study of sexual obsession ... a witty reworking of the Dracula myth starched stiff with irony ... a stylish provocative debut novel. -<em> The Times</em></p><p>A brilliant novel. - <em>Maxim</em></p><p>Be warned: this is no ordinary novel. I searched my bookshelves for apt comparisons and soon realized that I could only invent them: <em>Dracula </em>rewritten by J.G. Ballard<em> Last Year at Marienbad</em> directed by Mario Bava.... Here at last is what readers have been waiting for: a new and very dark vision ... This is the most original and unnerving first novel that I've read in years. Stunning. - Douglas E. Winter</p><p></p>