A Coven of Vampires

✍ Scribed by Lumley, Brian

• Book ID: 107164346
• Publisher: Far Territories
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 201 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Subterranean Press is proud to announce this brand-new edition of Brian Lumley's most sought after book, A Coven of Vampires, featuring a collection of 13 classic vampire tales: What Dark God?, Back Row, The Strange Years, The Kiss of the Lamia, Recognition, The Thief Immortal, Necros, The Thing From the Blasted Heath, Uzzi, Haggopian, The Picknickers, Zack Phalanx is Vlad the Impaler, and The House of the Temple.

From Booklist

If you like the kind of things that inspired the teenaged Lumley--he mentions EC Comics, the famous pulp magazine Weird Tales , English monster-movie actor Christopher Lee, and sf-horror writer Richard Matheson--you will warm or agreeably chill to these 13 creepy little yarns. (Another acknowledged and very obvious influence is H. P. Lovecraft; several of Lumley's efforts contribute to the Cthulhu Mythos cycle of stories that Lovecraft started.) Lumley defines vampire broadly, so that it applies to, among others, a faux Arabic version of the ancient Greek Lamia, a lovely and curvaceous member of the Riviera beach elite, a railway-traveling band of seeming devil worshipers, a Cousteau-like marine scientist, a simple young German signpainter, and the revenant Vlad Tepes Dracul himself. It isn't only blood these fiends are after, and still, getting what they want always kills those who have it. This stuff may not be art, but it sure is fun. Ray Olson