Derek McCormack

Derek McCormack's most recent novel is The Show That Smells (ECW Press, 2008). His previous novel, The Haunted Hillbilly (ECW Press, 2003) was named a best book of the year by both the Globe & Mail and the Village Voice, and was nominated for a Lambda Award for Best Gay Fiction. He is also the author of Christmas Days (Anansi, 2005), a history of Christmas in Canada. He writes a fashion column for the National Post newspaper. He lives in Toronto.

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Die Scream Die! A Musical Revue

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Thursday, July 2, 2009 - 7:00pm

The Gladstone Hotel, Ballroom

1214 Queen Street West

Cost: PWYC, $7 suggested

Tony Burgess
Derek McCormack
Carl Wilson
Dani Couture
Nathaniel G. Moore

If you’re a fan of blunt-force trauma, you could do no better than the launch of the 17th annual Scream Literary Festival, when horror-lit luminaries Tony Burgess (Pontypool) and Derek McCormack (The Haunted Hillbilly, The Show That Smells) lead an all-singing, all-dancing musical revue like an undead Donny & Marie.

Join their alter egos Count Cormula and, um, Tony Burgess as they lead Scream Mainstage Alumni Dani Couture (Good Meat), Sean Dixon (The Girls Who Saw Everything), Carl Wilson (Let's Talk About Love) and others through a ghoulish extravaganza.

Will Cormula’s vampires prevail? Will Burgess’ zombies emerge victorious? Will the Scream alumni get to read their works amidst the singing and dancing? Will the Eye Magazine Poetry Contest winner prove an innocent onstage victim in all this madness? What does Nathaniel G. Moore have to do with any of this?

Find out in Die Scream Die! The Musical Revue.

Submitted by aaron on June 15, 2009 - 10:12am.