It's settled and accepted. "Snake Plissken Against the Vampires: Escape from Pueblo de Sangre" will be featured in Raffaele Pezzella/Eighth Tower Publishing's Dark Fiction #5.
This latest volume is a John Carpenter salute. Since Escape from New York is my favorite Carpenter movie, and Vampires is one of the director's most underrated gems, I decided to cross the mythologies. To boot, Snake is rather a pulp-fiction styled (anti)hero, and I do favor such character fiction, along with horror and weird (post-apocalyptic) westerns, so it felt right to take this alternate-reality, mashup route.
I also pulled elements from Mike McQuay's Escape from New York novelization, as well as Snake's Marvel, CrossGen and BOOM! comic-book extensions. On the Vampires end, I insinuated Jack Crow, the tough, Vatican-employed protagonist of John Steakley's novel, portrayed by James Woods in Carpenter's rugged adaptation, even though he doesn't physically enter the journey. (It's his spirt, his intent, that thrives.)
But that's not all. "Pueblo de Sangre" harbors nuggets of Richard Matheson's I Am Legend and George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead and The Crazies, which Carpenter alludes to in his initial Plissken outing. There are even extrapolated references to Escape From L.A. and They Live buried in my adventure, for those sharp enough to discern them.
I'm anxious to see what Dark Fiction #5's other contributors have conjured to honor Carpenter. His filmography offers so much to chose from, the variance of which should make the latest Eighth Tower anthology one of the series' most interesting. Stay tuned for updates.
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