The Last Motel was my first novel and was originally published in 2002 as a super-limited edition by Wild Roses Production. The only problem is that one night at the Lodgepole Pine Motel can be a lifetime. Their stories are all different, but their plans are all the same: Stay the night at the Lodgepole Pine Motel and leave the next morning.

In one explosive night, these people’s lives will change forever. Strangers with seemingly little in common with one another, are inextricably linked through a series of macabre events. (Biting Dog Publications edition – Out of Print) With that in mind, here is the IMDB page for the ‘movie’ THE LAST MOTEL: THE LAST MOTEL (1981) The latest edition of The Last Motel perfectly captures the atmosphere of those beloved grindhouse classics.Even if the movie never really existed, I hope you’ll still have fun with the book. Did it work? Probably not as much as I had hoped, but some people were convinced the trailer and production stills were real and searched in vain for a copy of the long-lost ‘movie’. All in the hope of fooling people into thinking there really was a movie released in 1981 called ‘The Last Motel’. We even filmed a mock trailer and shot some photos to create lobby cards and a behind-the-scenes stills gallery. Matthew Revert and I wrote and recorded a soundtrack. We created a back-story for the ‘production’ and an IMDB entry. So, we created a cool-looking cover, reminiscent of the classic low-budget posters from the b-grade horror movies of the ’80s. We decided to create the new edition as if it was a movie tie-in to some old – and largely forgotten – Ozploitation flick from the early ’80s.

We thought that we should have fun with it. When the rights reverted back to me in 2009 I approached the good people at LegumeMan Books about publishing a new edition. The book was published in 2005 by Biting Dog Publications and garnered some good reviews and a lot of die-hard fans.

When I wrote The Last Motel in 2002, my aim was to pay tribute to the horror movies I grew up watching and helped shape my love of all things horror the grungy low-budget exploitation flicks of the ’70s and early ’80s such as Last House on the Left, Motel Hell and the early Friday the 13th movies. But one night can last a lifetime at… The Last Motel. Who will live to see the dawn, and who will learn that this is one motel where checking in can be murder? They only wanted to stay one night. Madge Fraiser is the kindly old owner of the rustic mountain hideaway, which, during one long night, will become awash with blood, as the guests are stalked one by one by a sadistic killer. The Lodgepole Pine Motel is the setting for nerve-wracking terror when a group of unsuspecting travellers find themselves trapped in a nightmare of violence and mayhem.

The Last Motel by Brett McBean