My Ex, the Antichrist
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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Publisher Description
From rising star of horror Craig DiLouie comes a twisted tale of love, heartbreak, and the apocalypse. We all have bad exes. Lily Lawlor's just happens to be the Antichrist.
"DiLouie brings his sharp mix of heart and horror to the end of the world with this clever story about rock and roll, relationships, and destiny." ― Peter Clines, New York Times bestselling author
1998: Lily Lawlor and Drake Morgan form a punk band. Drake inspires faith in some. Fear in others. Lily is a believer.
2010: At the height of her stardom, Lily walks into a police station and confesses to a murder.
Now: The band has refused to talk to the press about their riotous past, Lily’s confession, or anything else. It's been over a decade, but Lily has finally agreed to an interview. And the band is following her lead.
What follows is a story of prophecy, death, and apocalypse. A story about love found and love lost. A story about the antichrist. Maybe it’s all true. Maybe none if it is.
Either way, this is their story. And they’re sticking to it.
"One hell of a performance! DiLouie once again proves he is a master of the epistolary genre." ― Lee Murray, five-time Bram Stoker award-winning author
"Reading My Ex, the Antichrist is like letting Behind the Music take you to hell and back." ― Andy Marino, author of The Swarm
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Outré even by the standards of supernatural horror fiction, DiLouie's ostentatious, 1990s-set latest (after How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive) proposes that the Antichrist is the front man for a Pennsylvania art band and that the apocalypse he threatens can only be averted through the intervention of a punk pop group headed by his ex-girlfriend. Presented as an oral history, the tale unfolds through interviews mostly with members of the Shivers, a small-town ensemble whose seductive live shows, led by guitarists Lily Lawless and her charismatic partner, Drake Morgan, compel attendees to riot and kill. After Lily comes to suspect that Drake and his music are unholy and splits from him, Drake—who eventually admits to being less than human—goes on to found the infernal band Universal Priest, setting the stage for a showdown with the Shivers at the Armageddon Battle of the Bands, with the fate of the world on the line. DiLouie seeds the narrative with enough pop theology to undergird its tongue-in-cheek excesses, which include a cabal of rogue clergy wielding rocket launchers and a Universal Priest stage performance that unfolds like a mash-up of The Omen and This Is Spinal Tap. It's a wild ride.
