I wrote a little something for the Diabolique website.
While living in France, and after having directed a British TV episode that resulted in him being surrounded by a yard full of chickens that went insane and dropped dead, director Samuel Fuller decided to write Brainquake, a bonkers pulp novel about a Mob bag man who finds himself on the run with a deadly dame.
“When he needed a little extra scratch, or maybe it was just because he was feeling inspired, he wrote Brainquake, a fever dream pulp novel that begins with a baby apparently murdering someone and includes, among other things, a former French Resistance fighter tormented in his dreams by the disembodied jaundiced head of Charles De Gaulle, screaming at him for being a coward.”
-----Keith Allison is the chief Bacchanologist at Teleport City.
#1 by Fuzzy on August 11, 2019 - 5:30 pm
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Hmm… I’m going to have to check this out. Stories set in a particular time period, but seeming to exist in a liminal space between that and another time (even if it’s not as overt as it seems to be here, from your description) always fascinate me, and knowing what went into the writing of it makes me even more curious.