Blake is out on a trip with her family and tweets lethargic about it. But what starts as a typical tour has changed quickly into a nightmare when they come across the Circus of the Dead.
First publication: The New Dead
Date: 2010
Author(s): Joe Hill
Nomination(s): No
Movie: No
The books, magazines and/or collections in which these titles are also published:
· The New Dead
· Zombie: An Anthology Of The Undead
· Nightmare Magazine online (link)
· A Carnivàle Of Horror
· Full Throttle
· Midnight Under the Big Top
The book/story is published with these cover(s):
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| Hardcover Subterannean Press 2010 – |
978161664372 Hardcover St. Martin’s Griffin 2010 |
9780312559717 Paperback St. Martin’s Griffin 2010 |
9780749953379 Paperback Piatkus 2012 |
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| 9781848635036 Hardcover PS Publishing 2012 |
9781848635043 Signed Hardcover PS Publishing 2012 |
– All covers Full Throttle – |
9781587677304 Signed Hardcover Cemetery Dance 2020 |
Information about edition(s):
· The New Dead hardcover by Subterranean Press was limited to #250.
· A Carnival of Horror by PS Publishing had a regular hardcover and a signed of #200.
· Midnight Under the Big Top is numbered to 750 and signed by Brian James Freeman, Vincent Chong & Glenn Chadbourne.
The story starts as follows:
What is Twitter? “Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co-workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? . . . Answers must be under 140 characters in length and can be sent via mobile texting, instant message, or the Web.”
—from Twitter.com
TYME2WASTE I’m only trying this because I’m so bored I wish I was dead. Hi Twitter. Want to know what I’m doing? Screaming inside.
8:17 p.m.—28 Feb from Tweetie
TYME2WASTE My, didn’t that sound melodramatic.
8:19 p.m.—28 Feb from Tweetie
TYME2WASTE Lets try this again. Hello Twitterverse. I am Blake and Blake is me. What am I doing? Counting seconds.
8:23 p.m.—28 Feb from Tweetie
TYME2WASTE Only about 50,000 more until we pack up and finish what is hopefully the last family trip of my life.
8:25 p.m.—28 Feb from Tweetie
TYME2WASTE It’s been all downhill since we got to Colorado. And I don’t mean on my snowboard.
8:27 p.m.—28 Feb from Tweetie
Other information:
· The story is written in tweets.
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