Nestled in the foothills of West Virginia, Ron Earl Phillips lives with his wife, a daughter, a German Shepherd, and one too many cats.
A title can evoke a tone and expectation, but when David Niall Wilson is the author those expectations are going to bend. This lean 180 page novella was pitched as Tarantino meets Smokey and the Bandit. Closing Time at the Sunny-Side-Up is a fast-paced page turner that appreciates the over-the-top cinema of the 70s and 90s both. We hope you’ll enjoy!
Quentin Tarantino meets Smokey & The Bandit in this noir, science-fiction thriller. Sometimes, people just need killing. When Sam West wanders into the Sunny-Side-Up Diner hoping for a last slice of Mort’s world-class pie, and one last look at a waitress named Delilah, he has no idea he’s about to become the instrument of a great, karmic cleansing. The only thing crazier than the seemingly inevitable trail of bodies following Sam and Delilah south is the fact that – as State Police and local sheriffs begin to investigate – they find no evidence. Nothing. And the missing bodies are just the start, as an unlikely band of companions are drawn together in a scientific experiment more in line with the TV Series Fringe than anything in reality, with the threat of alien probes, local law enforcement, and rednecks around every corner.
“David Niall Wilson has done it again with Closing Time at the Sunny-Side-Up with a rollicking, crazy, horrific but endlessly entertaining and amusing story. I just wanted to find this nutty band of cutthroats and join them in this murderous energy-crisis-solving killing spree.”
—Michael DiMercurio, author of Ambush of the Dragon
“Welcome to the Sunny Side Up Diner, where waitress Delilah decides she’s had enough. After counting her tips for the day, she makes a fatal decision that sends her careening across south Texas with a band of criminals, scorching a trail of terror at every stop they make. Fasten your seatbelts readers, and hop into one of the fastest reads you’re bound to crack this year.”
—Michael Laimo, author of Missed Connection and Deep in the Darkness
“David Niall Wilson’s Closing Time at the Sunny-Side-Up is a fast-paced, exhilarating story of the road, with depraved murderers, weird scientists, and dedicated lawmen, all entangled in overlapping webs of intrigue. I’ve read many, many works by Mr. Wilson, and I put this one way up at the top of the list.”
—Stephen Mark Rainey, author of The House at Black Tooth Pond
David Niall Wilson is a USA Today bestselling, multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author of more than forty novels and collections. He is a former president of the Horror Writers Association and CEO and founder of Crossroad Press Publishing. His novels include This is My Blood, Deep Blue, Sins of the Flash, and Many More. His most recent published works are the collection The Devil’s in the Flaws & Other Dark Truths, and the novellas When you Leave I Disappear. David lives in way-out-yonder NC with his wife Patricia, 13 cats, and a chinchilla named Pook-Daddy.
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