Reviews for The King is dead

The average rating for The King is dead based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-04-13 00:00:00 Arik Williams The King is Dead: Tales of Elvis Postmortem is an elegy to one of the most long lasting and influential musicians of our age, Elvis Aron Presley. Each story comes from a place of love and adoration, albeit drunken, degenerate love and the sort of adoration which leads to your house being raided by the police where they discover a hidden shrine in a back room filled with pictures with no eyes, messages scrawled in unknown fluids and unidentifiable remains wrapped in lace and dribbled in candle wax. From alternate histories where Elvis didn't truly die, or died before his time, and tales of bizarre cults attempting to bring about Elvis's spiritual return, to touching accounts of funeral home preparations and essays by rockers still living today, the book explored everything Elvis was, is, could have been and may one day be. I picked the book up solely for Joe R. Lansdale's 'Bubba Ho-Tep' in which an elderly Elvis who traded lives with an impersonator years ago teams up with a black JFK to fight the soul sucking Mummy preying on other residents of their nursing home, yet the collection surprised me with the depth and breadth of the countless other stories written by people who seem to have both a fascination and adoration for a man now dead some 40+ years.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-12-25 00:00:00 Karlheinz Will Only read Harlan Ellison's story, but it was great.