Lazarus deep is a lake that sits like a blot of darkness in the valley.
Eighteen-year-old Dylan Adams is on the verge of leaving his hometown for a life in the big city, but his plans are dramatically changed when his old school friend Luke Spencer goes missing.
A search finds nothing. All anyone knows is that he was last seen at Lazarus Deep. Then, in the dead of night, Dylan's old friend comes calling.
But heβs not the same boy that everyone once knew.
The strangest eyes, the lingering whispers β¦ messages sent through the night β¦ once more David Leppington, Bernice Mochardi and Electra Charnwood are drawn together to face the vampiric creatures that are Nosferatu: the undead.
The desolate North Yorkshire Moors have held their secret for more than a thousand years.
Now it is the turn of Lazarus Deep.
Vampyrrhic Rites is the follow-up to Simon Clarkβs ceaselessly terrifying novel Vampyrrhic. It is a chilling horror-thriller that brings the well-known terror of vampires to the hitherto unspoiled lands of Northern England.
Praise for Simon Clark:
βA master of eerie thrillsβ - Richard Laymon
βThe hottest new purveyor of horrific thrills currently working on these shoresβ - The Big Issue
βReaders will relish Clark's uncomplicated cocktail of chlorophyll and human bloodβ - Financial Times on The Night of the Triffids
βSimon Clark is not an author to let you down β the blood doesnβt flow through his text so much as pump arterially into the readerβs faceβ β SFX
βTo say that Simon Clark is the best novelist to emerge this decade is self-evident. Simon has simply outgrown genre restrictionsβ β Andrew Darlington
Born in 1958, Simon Clark lives in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. His short stories have appeared in several magazines and anthologies, including Darklands 2, Dark Voices 5 and The Yearβs Best Horror Stories (four times). He has published a collection of short stories, Blood and Grit, and four earlier novels, Nailed by the Heart, Blood Crazy, Darker and King Blood. His work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and he has also written prose material for the internationally famous rock band U2.
Venture Press is a science fiction and fantasy imprint of Endeavour Press, the UKβs leading independent digital publisher. We are committed to the discovery and rediscovery of immensely talented authors in the SFF genre, and continue to push boundaries in search of great literature. Join us as we venture across universes and unknown landscapes β past, present and future.
Sign up to our newsletter: http://bit.ly/1LUVI4n
Follow us on Twitter @venture_press
Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1NnFow7
**