Greg Kihn, Author Tor Books $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-86045-5
Like the horror B-movies of the 1950s to which it pays heartfelt homage, this first novel from erstwhile rock star Kihn is a wild and wacky romp on the far fringe of tastefulness. Kihn fondly caricatures Hollywood schlockmeisters such as Roger...
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Greg Kihn, Author Forge $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-86756-0
Ex-rocker and current L.A. deejay Kihn brings back the resourceful hero of Horror Show for another goofily entertaining movie-and-rock romp, this one set in 1967. B-movie director Landis Woodley hasn't made a picture in 10 years when Sol Kravitz...
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Greg Kihn, Author Forge $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-87246-5
A decade past the late '60s setting of Big Rock Beat, former rock star and radio DJ Kihn continues the tale of Beau Young, ex-hippie rock guitarist. This time Beau explores the smoky world of blues music. The year is 1977 and now, as sideman to...
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Greg Kihn, Author Forge $21.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-86046-2
Although the mythical Banshee--the traditional Celtic angel of death--gets this would-be thriller off to a seductive start, San Francisco radio host Kihn (Horror Show) weighs his tale down with clunky prose and eventually allows an initially...
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Greg Kihn. Premier Digital Publishing (Canadian Manda Group, Canadian dist.; Ingram, U.S. dist.), $17.99 trade paper (306p) ISBN 978-1-62467-094-7
Liverpudlian Bobby "Dust Bin Bob" Dingle's carefully scavenged collection of R&B singles, procured from visiting Merchant Marines, provides an escape from his loutish step-brothers, two thugs destined for jail or worse. The records also provide a...
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Greg Kihn. Open Road, $23.99 trade paper (300p) ISBN 978-1-62467-269-9
Billed as a mystery, Kihn’s sequel to 2013’s Rubber Soul amounts to a rock-and-roll travelogue with a focus on the final tumultuous months in the life of Brian Jones, the founder of the Rolling Stones, leading up to his death in 1969. London antique
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