80s Death Mixtape: A Horror Anthology
The Butchered Writers
TBW Press (August 4, 2025)
Reviewed by Nora B. Peevy

Neon colors, leg warmers, windbreakers, jelly bracelets, and the era of big hair and New Wave and heavy metal that ushered in the all the artists we know and love today – the 80s. Remember Walkmans and mixed tapes? The Butchered Writers Presents: 80s Death Mixtape: A Horror Anthology. Inside these pages you will find mummies, vampires, 80s hairdos that go wrong, and mixed tapes that mess with their radio winners for starters.

Go ahead. Open your favorite 80s snack if it’s still around. (Mine would be Cool Ranch Doritos and Coke.) You’re going to want to keep the light on because not all of these stories come in happy neon colors. But you’ll want to read this tome from front to back because the nostalgia and the horror will hit just the right pleasure centers in your brain. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, but most of all, you’ll scream.