Tobe Hooper’s book Midnight Movie: A Novel hits shelves next week

Any horror fan will instantly recognize Tobe Hooper as the director behind such classics as THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE and POLTERGEIST. He has written a few screenplays in his day, but did you know that the filmmaker also penned a novel?

The book, co-written by Alan Goldsher, is entitled MIDNIGHT MOVIE: A NOVEL. It will be released on July 12 via Three Rivers Press. It runs 320 pages and will be available in paperback and Kindle. The cover art is pictured below. Here’s a bit more about the story:

The good news: Director Tobe Hooper has been invited to speak at a screening of Destiny Express, a movie he wrote and directed as a teenager, but that hasn’t seen the light of day in decades. And Hooper’s fans are ecstatic.

The bad news: Destiny Express proves to be a killer . . . literally. As the death toll mounts, Tobe embarks on a desperate journey to understand the film’s thirty-year-old origins—and put an end to the strange epidemic his creation has set in motion.

Featuring the terror, humor, and sly documentary style Hooper devotees remember from such classics as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Midnight Movie is vintage Tobe Hooper, again demonstrating the director’s place as one of the godfathers of modern horror.

Pre-order MIDNIGHT MOVIE: A NOVEL on paperback HERE or Kindle HERE.