You Know They Got a Hell of a Band (short story)

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"You Know They Got a Hell of a Band" is a horror short story by Stephen King about a couple who stumble upon a sinister small town populated by the undead spirits of famous rock musicians.

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instanceOf horror fiction
short story
adaptation Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King (TV series episode) NERFINISHED
adaptationReleaseYear 2006
adaptationType television episode
author Stephen King
centralConflict couple trapped in town of undead rock musicians
collectionPublicationYear 1993
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
featuresFictionalCharacter Buddy Holly (fictionalized spirit) NERFINISHED
Elvis Presley (fictionalized spirit) NERFINISHED
Janis Joplin (fictionalized spirit) NERFINISHED
Jimi Hendrix (fictionalized spirit) NERFINISHED
Roy Orbison (fictionalized spirit) NERFINISHED
firstPublicationYear 1992
firstPublishedIn Shock Rock NERFINISHED
firstPublishedInType anthology GENERATED
genre horror
supernatural fiction
hasMediaType print
television (adaptation)
hasPageCountRange approximately 30–40 pages (in collection editions)
includedInCollection Nightmares & Dreamscapes NERFINISHED
includedInGenreCategory American horror short stories
short fiction by Stephen King
language English
literaryForm prose
narrativePerspective third-person narration
notableFor depicting afterlife town of dead rock stars
partOf Stephen King bibliography NERFINISHED
protagonist Clark NERFINISHED
Mary NERFINISHED
publisherOfFirstBookCollection Viking Press NERFINISHED
setting Oregon NERFINISHED
fictional town of Rock and Roll Heaven
theme celebrity worship
death
entrapment
timePeriodOfSetting late 20th century
titleOrigin lyric allusion to rock-and-roll culture

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