Christmas always means new books! That must be read!)
(Which is not as anti-social/tortured Goth -behavior as you may think: my family was used to me sitting in a corner and reading a book during the holidays. I feverishly read it from cover to cover in a few hours that day, sitting in a corner at the family gathering. My parents, ever-amused and tolerant of my endlessly-growing collection of horror novels, gave me a copy of the hardback for Christmas that year.
The “10 best” list also included a book that hadn’t been released yet:īrite takes the vampiric themes of estrangement and love of the dark and perfectly grafts them onto an underground punk subculture, casting a spell in wet lace and smudged eyeliner. (I ended up tracking both of those down, and I’m sure I’ll end up featuring them in future wanderings through The Nocturnal House.) Martin’s Fevre Dream, or Delicate Dependency: A Novel of Vampire Life by Michael Talbot. Then there were ones that I had never heard of, such as George R. There were some obvious choices, such as Dracula (Vintage Classics) and Interview with the Vampire. I bought it, of course how could I not? And amongst all the movie news, there was an article about the “10 best vampire books”. Fangoria magazine had just released a special all-vampire issue, featuring articles on the upcoming movie of Dracula, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie, Innocent Blood, and other vampire-themed content. Let me set the WayBack Machine to September of 1992. Guess what, Snarklings? It’s time for another visit to The Nocturnal House! Here, let me light a few candles and pour a glass of absinthe ”¦ though a glass of Chartreuse would be more thematically appropriate, considering the book I’m going to talk about this time.
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