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Lost sequel to Wes Craven’s SHOCKER! Read the 1992 Treatment that Recently Resurfaced

Folks have been hounding me about Shocker II now and again, and I finally came across it in a file cabinet from the bowels of my parent's garage! The 38-page treatment director WES CRAVEN got me to write in 1992 as a sequel to his film SHOCKER, starring Mitch Pileggi as Horace Pinker.  I and my agent at the time were going back and forth with Craven’s assistant about novelizations which led to the director’s interest in my published work at the time and he wanted to see where I took his characters if I wrote the story.  I didn’t have a story.  I was poking around for novelization deals because Halloween IV really worked for me.  So, in light of this interest, I set to work and wrote a detailed treatment .  I was very excited about it, and I read it now and I wish I could just wave a magic wand and see it made.  The original Shocker was fun….it seemed obvious Craven was attempting a new brand of Freddy-like villain to market, and the television channel chase….well, you kinda have to be stoned to truly appreciate it….and it had a massive promotional campaign.  When I saw it in the theaters around 1989/1990, I thought it was entertaining but a bit hokey.  But when Wes Craven wants to see what you can do with it in a sequel…..well, I just HAD to! Reading it now, it’s chock full of the style and elements my own work is known for, and I think it’d be a damned shame if I returned this jewel back to the file cabinets, so I decided to share it with all my horror friends, my writing friends, and all my horror writing friends.

 

And I’m giving it away for free.  Even though I wrote it, it’s based on Craven’s characters & situations, so I can’t make a profit.  But as free fan fiction, I can certainly show it off.  It’s available to download in most ebook formats at the online store of the horror book publishing company I run, Black Bed Sheet Books, in its ebook section (see link at bottom of note).

 

 

All I ask from those enthusiastic horror fans who’d love to download and read it is this: 

 

please “LIKE” Black Bed Sheet Books on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Black-Bed-Sheet-Books/49733235679 

 

......and while you’re at the Black Bed Sheet Book Store downloading your copy (see link below), please consider giving our authors and their astoundingly kickass books a read.  We have print books, instantly downloadable ebooks available in all formats, and they’re all mostly HORROR, baby!  After you’ve liked us on Facebook, and you download and read Shocker II, I’d also love your feedback.  So feel free to post your responses.

 

Go here for SHOCKER II:

http://blackbedsheet.goshopper.net/c/89257/ebooks.htm

 

Inspiration & Horror, Baby,---Nicholas Grabowsky

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