Judgement Of The Vampire

Liverpool Vampire #2

by Michael Pugh

"I had hoped, especially since the humans had sided with the Great Council during the vampire war, that the humans would make a much better job of running the world than had us vampires… …My hopes that the humans would do better than we vampires had were to be dashed."

This is the follow up book to The Liverpool Vampire. As this book is a follow up story, readers should read The Liverpool Vampire first so that they may gain the fullest enjoyment from this story.

Set in Britain in 1976, eleven years after the events in The Liverpool Vampire, Judgement Of The Vampire tells the separate stories of Stephen and Dafydd. Stephen is determined to heal the wounds of the past that were caused by the vampire people, and he has been working for over 1000 years to achieve his goal. Dafydd seeks to subjugate the human race, starting with Britain, and he is willing to push the rules of being a vampire as far as they will go.

Judgement Of The Vampire charts the development of Dafydd's sociopathic personality and the damage that being a vampire has done to him, as well as the history and motivations of his creator, Stephen the vampire. Completely opposed in their aims, the vampires will eventually clash in the end.

Judgement Of The Vampire is an adult book and is not suitable for children.

Brief background: My vampire series is an examination of an awful kind of person – the sort of person who, in real life, really wouldn’t have any problems being a serial killer. In a sense, vampire stories are serial killer stories, but they’re not like any of the serial killers that you could Google or name off the top of your head; these are the sort of killers that many serial killers see themselves as – magical, able to act with impunity; special. If we can look at the vampire and, after seeing him in the worst possible light, still sympathise with him and still root for him on some level, what does that say about us as people? "Humanity needs its vampires."

126 pages, Paperback

First published November 25, 2012

About the author

I'm a British author who writes novels and other books across several genres.

My books so far cover:
* Hell (Admin Is Hell)
* zombies (The Undead: Book One, Overview and The Undead: Book Two, North America)
* vampires (The Liverpool Vampire and its follow up, Judgement Of The Vampire)
* romantic comedy (How Long Have You Really Got?)
* mental illness (The Box of Mirrors
* anti-war (Sergeant Cuddlington and The War At Sea)
as well as the comedy self-help books, Wife Maintenance Quarterly and Wife Maintenance Quarterly II.

Future novels include:
* the rest of the zombie series, The Undead
* two more vampire novels
* the sequel to Admin Is Hell

I’m a lefty British author who believes in equality. I write fiction without filler, because I have no interest in filler; life’s too short to write it, and I certainly wouldn’t want to waste anyone’s time expecting them to read it. My work is relatively short and to the point, with all of my books so far landing between 5,000 and 85,000 words. It’s my job to tell you the story I want to tell you without distractions, because you’re busy and I wouldn’t insult you with thousands of words of padding!

As well as being a fabulous writer and world renowned expert on practically nothing useful, I am disabled and am undergoing treatment for gender reassignment. Neither of those things define me as a person, but they are parts of me that I have no reason to hide and every reason to be open about. Disability and gender/sexual issues are too often overlooked or used to pigeon-hole people, as if the individual spoken about was lost behind the glare of their label.

I have been married to Jenny since 2010 and we live together in Liverpool. As well as doing her quality wifing, Jenny also acts as editor and publicist for all of my works.

If you have a question for me or Jenny, you can email us at the_pughs@ymail.com.

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