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The book takes place in the 1980s punk subculture of New York City.While riding the subway, a young street punk named Rudy Pasko is attacked and turned by an old vampire. Drunk off his new power, Rudy takes to the nightlife and goes on a murder spree, but his actions lead to the formation of a posse composed of several local messengers, artists, and working class citizens who devise a plan to ...
Melton, J. Gordon. (1999) The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead. Visible Ink Press. Montague Summers (1928) The Vampire: His Kith and Kin, (book reprinted with alternate title: Vampires and Vampirism ISBN 0-486-43996-8). Chapter 5 - "The Vampire in Literature" is reprinted in Clive Bloom (2007) Gothic Horror: 108–126. Basingstoke ...
It is the first book in the Twilight series, and introduces seventeen-year-old Isabella "Bella" Swan, who moves from Phoenix, Arizona, to Forks, Washington. She is endangered after falling in love with Edward Cullen, a 103-year-old vampire frozen in his 17-year-old body. Additional novels in the series are New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn.
Dan Schneider from International Writers Magazine: Book Review wrote: Despite having vampires in it, [the novel] is not a novel on vampires, nor even a horror nor sci-fi novel at all, in the deepest sense. Instead, it is perhaps the greatest novel written on human loneliness. It far surpasses Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe in that regard.
New Orleans is also the backdrop of author Anne Rice’s bestselling book “Interview with the Vampire,” a novel Laycock says had a huge influence on vampire subculture after its release in 1976.
5. Books Gross Vampire Product: $2.2 billion Vampire stories have been around for centuries, but we looked only at those novels that made it to The New York Times Best Seller list. Anne Rice's ...
Night Watch (Russian: «Ночной Дозор») is a fantasy novel by the Russian author Sergei Lukyanenko, the first to feature his fictional world of The Others. The book was first published in Russia by AST in 1998. The story revolves around a confrontation between two opposing supernatural groups (known as "Others"): the Night Watch, an ...
Koyomi Araragi (Japanese: 阿良々木 暦, Hepburn: Araragi Koyomi) is the protagonist of Nisio Isin's light novel series Monogatari. Araragi is a third-year high school student who became part vampire after sharing his blood with Shinobu Oshino. During the story, Araragi finds himself helping girls involved with a variety of apparitions ...