Bücher von Bryan Smith

This poem was written several years ago and was placed in a file to await an illustrator. Consider the joy when I realized my own daughter, Heather Layne Lewis (nee Smith), would be the very best person to fulfill this need. Her illustrations convey my ideas as if it were me wielding the brush.

"Let me unequivocally state that Bryan Smith creates the most fantastic, sick, demented and twisted characters in horror fiction today." -Famous Monsters of Filmland "I look forward to spending a weekend with a new Bryan Smith book the way I used to look forward to spending a weekend with a new Richard Laymon novel. In my view, there isn't higher praise than that."--Brian Keene, author of The Rising."Holy. Shit." -Horror Drive-InThe road to hell is paved with angels and demons. Brain worms and dead prostitutes. Serial killers and frustrated writers. Zombies and Rock 'n Roll. And once you start down this path, there is no going back.Collecting thirteen tales of shock and terror from Bryan Smith, Highways to Hell is a non-stop road-trip of cruelty, pain, and death. Grab a seat, Smith has such sights to show you.

Sex, Death, and Heavy Metal!If you're a teenage metal head The Southern Illinois Music Reeducation Center is not the place you want to go. The center specializes in "de-metaling" - a treatment to cure teens of their metal loving, devil worshiping ways. A program that subjects its prisoners to sexual abuse, torture, and brain-washing. But tonight things get much worse. Tonight the flesh-eating zombies come . . . Rock and Roll Reform School Zombies is Bryan Smith's tribute to Return of the Living Dead and The Decline of Western Civilization Part 2: the Metal Years

"Smith promises unimaginable brutality, bile-inducing fear, and unfathomable despair; and then delivers monumentally." -Horror Web "A feast of good old-fashioned horror." -Brian Keene, author of Ghoul They are The Dark Ones. The name began as a self-deprecating joke, but it stuck and now it's a source of pride. They're the one who don't fit in. The misfits who drink and smoke too much and stay out all hours of the night. Everyone knows they're trouble. On the outskirts of Ransom, TN is an abandoned, boarded-up house. Something evil happened there long ago. The evil has been contained there ever since, locked down tight in the basement-until the night The Dark Ones set it free...