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Nosferatu: Plague of Terror - Book One
Vampires, Zombies and a A Chilly Draft from Doomsday...Are you afraid to meet NOSFERATU? He's the Father of Vampires who creates zombie slave followers to do his bidding. No vampiric figure is more iconic or terrifyingly memorable than Nosferatu...a cadaverous monster with the calculating glint of utter evil in his hellish eyes, who feasts not just on human blood but human souls as well.A smiling fiend from the pits of hell who has cast his diseased shadow across mankind for centuries, he toys with human lives and changes the course of history to amuse his own depraved tastes.Only one man can match him and thwart his plans, the immortal William Longsword. Sir William has hunted Orlock the Nosferatu across the centuries. In PLAGUE OF TERROR, he pursues him to New York City. It is a race against time, because Orlock has already unleashed a fiendish plan to corrupt mankind for his own amusement.With his zombie minions, Orlock has set a trap that is about to snap shut on he jugular of the citizens of New York, and as the game plays out, he will enjoy leading Longsword deeper and deeper into the filthy underworld of a city filled with drug users, disease and desperation.NOSFERATU makes his terrifying return in this two-part, digitally remastered and colorized series, which is a compilation of the acclaimed Millennium comics series based on the legendary F.W. Murnau film, Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horrors.This classic of undead horror is reimagined by best-selling Sci-Fi author, Mark (James Axler) Ellis, Rik (Captain America) Levins, Melissa (The Everything Ghost Hunting Book) Martin-Ellis, Richard (New Warriors) Pace and Frank (Nightstalkers) Turner.Book One and Two contain graphic scenes of violence and are suggested for mature audiences.
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First published September 23, 2009
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June 27, 2024
This is a decent read, but nothing to really write home (or on my blog) about. This is about average for a black and white independent comic book for the era. It doesn't offend the senses or make you want to shout how great it is from the rooftops. It's just there. Some of the production values in this book are subpar. The blacks are a tad too dark, and some of the pages look pixelated due to poor scanning. I am a frickin' snob when it comes to this type of stuff, demanding the best. Your average comic book fan will likely not notice these things, but I suffer from acute OCD with this sort of thing. Your mileage may vary. I would recommend this to the diehard vampire of Horror fan.
April 3, 2025
An old independent vampire comic from 1991 repackaged and reprinted 30 years later. Like a lot of reprints from that era of independent comics, the transfers aren't great. Neither is the story for that matter. It's about an eternal battle between Count Orlok and a cursed knight.
March 15, 2023
Originally published as a four-issue series in the early '90s, Ellis (writer of the Outlander SF series, writing as James Axler) has collected the series in hardcover. Predominately in B&W, red and yellow are used in some panels as background or to highlight. While Ellis is the sole writer/creator, the artwork was done by a number of artists. They all use a similar style which makes recognizing the characters much easier.
Beginning in New York in the 90s, with the police discovering a number of dead and learning that they may have died from the Black Plague. Working with the Health Dept, Dr. Clay begins reading a handwritten journal she discovered in the apartment where the victims were discovered. Seeming to be written by an English nobleman and Crusader Sir William Longsword, beginning in the mid-13th Century, when he was confronted by the undead Graf Orlock. Orlock bit Sir William, not turning him but granting him near immortality.
For hundreds of years, Longsword has hunted Orlock, sometimes finding him in scenes of destruction but never able to end his existence. Along with Dr. Clay, Sir William hopes to finally bring the Baron's infernal life to an end before he can spread his contagion throughout the city.
Labeled by the publisher, Markosia, as Teen +, the book does contain a lot of graphic violence and some mild profanity.
The author has an afterward, explaining his fascination with the Orlock character and why he decided to take his vampire tale in that direction when the idea of the well-groomed undead was in fashion. Seems he had the same interest in the character and his lookalike in the TV adaptation of Stephen King's Salem's Lot that I did.
Beginning in New York in the 90s, with the police discovering a number of dead and learning that they may have died from the Black Plague. Working with the Health Dept, Dr. Clay begins reading a handwritten journal she discovered in the apartment where the victims were discovered. Seeming to be written by an English nobleman and Crusader Sir William Longsword, beginning in the mid-13th Century, when he was confronted by the undead Graf Orlock. Orlock bit Sir William, not turning him but granting him near immortality.
For hundreds of years, Longsword has hunted Orlock, sometimes finding him in scenes of destruction but never able to end his existence. Along with Dr. Clay, Sir William hopes to finally bring the Baron's infernal life to an end before he can spread his contagion throughout the city.
Labeled by the publisher, Markosia, as Teen +, the book does contain a lot of graphic violence and some mild profanity.
The author has an afterward, explaining his fascination with the Orlock character and why he decided to take his vampire tale in that direction when the idea of the well-groomed undead was in fashion. Seems he had the same interest in the character and his lookalike in the TV adaptation of Stephen King's Salem's Lot that I did.
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