Tempter

by Nancy A. Collins

A has-been rock star looks to revive his career and is tricked into helping an evil spirit imprisoned in an abandoned mansion deep in the Louisiana bayous New Orleans has long been famous for good food, good times, good music—and voodoo. When troubled musician Alex Rossiter relocates to the Big Easy, he soon finds his rock star mojo working again. Not only is his new band attracting notice, he’s also having affairs with two gorgeous the sexy voodoo queen Ti Alice, and beautiful businesswoman Charlotte “Charlie” Calder. But when Rossiter stumbles across a long-lost book of ancient spells, he unwittingly invites the evil spirit known as Tempter into his dreams—and, soon, his waking hours as well. Tempter is eager to escape his other-dimensional prison so he can once more slake his perverted lusts on the flesh of the living, starting with Charlie. It’s up to Jerry Sloan—Rossiter’s boyhood friend and Charlie’s not-so-secret admirer—and the one-eyed hoodoo woman known as Mad Aggie to stop Tempter’s evil plans before he destroys not Charlie but the descendants of the voodoo priestess who imprisoned him over a century ago. Together this unlikely duo must travel to the abandoned plantation deep in Louisiana’s haunted bayou country, and face the dark secret that lies waiting for them, locked inside its rotting heart.

Genres: Horror, Vampires, Fantasy, Supernatural, Fiction

234 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 3, 1990

About the author

Nancy A. Collins (born 10 September 1959) is a United States horror fiction writer best known for her series of vampire novels featuring her character Sonja Blue. Collins has also written for comic books, including the Swamp Thing series, Jason Vs. Leatherface, Predator: Hell Come A Walkin and her own one-shot Dhampire: Stillborn.

Collins was born in McGehee, Arkansas, United States. She lived in New Orleans, Louisiana in the 1980s; after time in New York City and Atlanta, Georgia she settled in Wilmington, North Carolina in the late 2000s.

Collins has written twenty novels since 1989, many of which refer to and directly include races of creatures the author calls Pretenders, monsters from myth and legend passing as human to better hunt their prey.

Collins has also written a number of highly acclaimed Southern Gothic short stories and novellas, most of which are set in Seven Devils, Arkansas, a highly fictionalized version of her hometown.

Most recently, she has focused her attention onto the Golgotham urban fantasy series,published by Penguin. Golgotham is the 'supernatural' ghetto of New York City, where creatures from myth and folklore--including witches,shapeshifters,leprechauns and centaurs--live and work in uneasy alliance with mankind.

Reviews

[Gilles · Rating 4 out of 5]

Un musicien essaie d'utiliser le vaudou pour améliorer sa vie. Au début, cela semble réussir, mais il a réveillé une puissance monstrueuse. Un très bon roman de fantastique par une auteure qui gagne à être connue. J'ai beaucoup aimé.

[Lucinda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Certainly not a book for the faint hearted.
Read it when I was 15. Scared the shit out of me that I think I didn't dare finishing it.

[Bea De · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good unpretentious vampire novel with lots of voodoo ,old Louisiana and sex with a juicy sauce of rock'n roll .

[Angela · Rating 2 out of 5]

Above is the original cover of this novel. Yet another vampire book set in New Orleans. By the author of Sunglasses after Dark, but this is not a Sonja Blue novel.

At the time I wrote this admittedly inadequate, well, I hesitate to even use the word "review", in 2002, it has been several years since I'd read the book but I remembered I didn't care for it much -- it was purchased at the height of my vampire obsession, which is the only reason it was kept rather than jettisoned immediately after reading. It's out there in the wild now, somewhere.

[MikeO · Rating 2 out of 5]

Average story - not any new ground covered. I enjoyed but not enough to recommend. I particularly liked the link to the past, wished the author had provided more to that part of the story. What really took away from the story itself was the editing. One of the worst edited copies of any book I've ever read...and this was a limited edition signed copy! Mostly incorrect words that, perhaps passed spell check, but in context of the sentence shoulda/would benn caught by a half-ways decent spell check (like built into MSWord). have

[Yvensong · Rating 3 out of 5]

In many ways, this is your standard horror story. You don't really meet the actual horror until pretty far into the story.

A few, trifling editing errors bugged me, but on the whole, this was a well-written, tightly woven story.

Not the most compelling vampire story I've ever read, but the monsters are real monsters, not romantic heroes.

[Charles · Rating 2 out of 5]

A pretty standard vampire story. At least the vamps aren't sweet creatures. Not badly written but I didn't find it compelling.

[Velvetink]

vampires.
*note to self. Copy from A. (my copy Futura publications 1991. different cover. scan later.

[Arlene Allen · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of the first ladies of urban fantasy! I love Sonja Blue.

[Brett]

Horror