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Head Cleaner

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HEAD CLEANER is a hugely original blend of thriller, science fiction, and horror that takes our love of nostalgia to task for its morbid obsessions with dead media and dead-end jobs:ClerksmeetsBlack Mirror(with a littleGroundhog DayandRussian Dollthrown in for good measure): The last Blockbuster video store in the United States is hanging on by a thread. And after a crazy night attempting to track down a lost VCR rental to collect the record-setting and internet-famous late fee, three employees, idealistic Eva, cinephile Jerry, and their tyrannical manager Randy, discover that this machine may actually have the power to change the endings of popular films, which, depending on the historical basis of the film, might also be changing the real world around them. Or could this just be an elaborate, increasingly deadly prank? When they begin receiving videotapes and voicemails seemingly depicting their deaths, Eva, Jerry, and Randy scramble to keep the VCR from falling into the wrong hands. And as one action-packed evening begins to seemingly repeat itself (or does it?), scores are settled and unwanted confessions begin to fly, until a Final Girl finally unravels a grand psychological experiment orchestrated at the highest levels of a crumbling social media empire.

Author Biography:

David James Keaton is the author of three collections of short stories, includingFISH BITES COP! Stories to Bash Authorities, which was named the 2013 Short Story Collection of the Year byThis Is Horror, andStealing Propeller Hats from the Dead, which received a Starred Review fromPublishers Weekly. He is also the author of three novels,The Last Projector(a thriller),Pig Iron(a western, which has been optioned for film), andShe Was Found in a Guitar Case(a mystery). He is the co-editor, along with Joe Clifford, ofHard Sentences: Crime Fiction Inspired by Alcatraz, and the editor ofDirty Boulevard: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Lou Reed. Heteaches composition and creative writing at Santa Clara University in California and can be found on Twitter @spiderfrogged.
Release date Australia
March 16th, 2023
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations, unspecified
Pages
336
ISBN-13
9781951709945
Product ID
35649553

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