Dark Angel

by Sean Forestal

Once he was Father O'Meara, young American priest, personal assistant to the senior prince of the Church, intimate to the Pope. But on the night Cardinal Ricci died, he saw the unthinkable - the beautiful face peering from a nun's habit...the graceful figure fleeing the room no woman dared enter...the mark of the Succubus...

From that moment on, Joe O'Meara was a man obsessed - in flight from the Church that had declared him mad, committed to find and destroy her. From the sunlit plazas of the Vatican, across the face of Europe, he followed her orgiastic trail of death and desecration. Willing to sacrifice safety, sanity, and faith itself, he flung himself into the abyss - into the exquisite embrace of the DARK ANGEL

Genres: Horror, Fiction

444 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1982

Reviews

[Grady Hendrix · Rating 4 out of 5]

A tough, Irish American priest goes rogue to destroy the pin-up succubus who murdered a bishop with sex in the heart of the Vatican and stole his sperm. Her next target? Probably the Pope! Feverish and desperate, hyperventilating and swollen with insanity, this is the kind of book where a succubus only drives Porsches and scarfs up big plates of nachos to feed the babies brewing in her womb, while one lone wolf Catholic burns down hospital nurseries in his race to make her stop. You can read more of what I have to say anytime.

[Jordan Anderson · Rating 3 out of 5]

I probably wouldn’t have heard of this novel had it not been for Grady Hendrix and his phenomenal Paperbacks from Hell. And I’ll admit I was thoroughly intrigued by the idea of a catholic priest taking on a succubus. Hendrix made the plot seem rather crazy and “achieve orbit” of insanity.

Dark Angel isn’t horrible. But at the same time it’s not as nuts as Hendrix led me to believe.

In fact, it’s more of a slow burn, gothic horror than anything else. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but I wouldn’t classify this as being in the same genre as something like The Nun or some other kind of catholic terror. That aside, there are some moments of great writing (the drug induced madness of a sex-party, the demise of some characters, O’Meara’s decent into debauchery as he attempts to kill the succubus). Forestal clearly did his homework with the inner workings on the Vatican.

I’m actually more excited that I was able to even find this book through open library since it’s clearly out of print.

[Donyae Coles · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF pg 64

I gave this book a good try but it didn't grab me. It was so boring! I picked it up as it was mentioned in Paperbacks from Hell and sounded like a really fun read but it was just dragging and even though there was a lot of wild things and violence going on in the start, it was just all sort of meh.

It was a miss from me.

[David · Rating 2 out of 5]

I had low expectations for this book and it failed to meet them.