| Gil's All Fright Diner | |
| Author: | A. Lee Martinez |
| Cover Artist: | Jeff Soto |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Urban fantasy, comic fantasy, horror |
| Publisher: | Tor Books |
| Release Date: | April 28, 2005 |
| Media Type: | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages: | 272 (hardcover edition) |
| Isbn: | 0-7653-1143-7 |
| Isbn Note: | (hardcover edition) (trade paperback edition) |
| Dewey: | 813/.6 22 |
| Congress: | PS3613.A78638 G55 2005 |
| Oclc: | 57391965 |
Gil's All Fright Diner is an urban fantasy novel by A. Lee Martinez first published in 2005.
In the backwoods southern town of Rockwood, a vampire and a werewolf in a run-down old truck come across Gil's All Night Diner, a 24-hour restaurant in the middle of nowhere. Nearly out of gas, they stop in at the diner only to discover it is the target of zombie attacks, hauntings, and occult activity.
The manager of the diner, Loretta, offers them a job helping her out around the diner, and maybe helping solve her zombie problem. They accept.
There are multiple references to the Necronomicon from the works of H. P. Lovecraft.
By December 2009, DreamWorks Animation had set screenwriters Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris to write a film adaptation of the book, with Barry Sonnenfeld attached to direct it.[1] In 2011, Martinez was working with DreamWorks on a project based on an original idea, and not on Gil's All Fright Diner.[2] In March 2013, Martinez expressed uncertainty for any film adaptation: "Your guess is as good as mine. It's all a matter of convincing someone with the clout necessary to make it happen".[3]