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From Hollywood B-movies to Hollywood classics, A Night at the Movies invents what "might have happened" in these Saturday afternoon matinees. Mad scientists, vampires, cowboys, dance-men, Chaplin, and Bogart, all flit across Robert Coover's riotously funny screen, doing things and uttering lines that are as shocking to them as they are funny to the reader. As Coover's Program announces, you will get Coming Attractions, The Weekly Serial, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, and more, but turned upside-down and inside-out. "Robert Coover has made literary art out of a total immersion in the movies. He isn't merely recycling old movie plots or drawing on the glamorous atmosphere of Hollywood. Rather, what he's doing is enlarging his literary technique by forcing it to assimilate cinematic conventions and to approximate filmic style. . . . Vivacious and entertaining." (Edmund White, New York Times Book Review 2-1-87) "Brazenly witty." (John Clute, Times Literary Supplement) "Vintage Hollywood nostalgia, pure and potent, unsullied and safe, like sex in some back row of the cinema of the mind . . . a brilliantly malicious tribute to the mesmeric powers of film." (Lorna Sage, The Observer) "As thrilling as a striking dream." (Publishers Weekly 10-31-86) "All our darkest wants, fears, dreams and myths are here in that magnificent celluloid palace no VCR will ever replace. . . . Coover's molded sentences and dire sentiences awe me." (James R. Frakes, Cleveland Plain Dealer 3-87)