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Curse-Breaker #o1
The Vampires: Debbie Fall
Debbie is not having the best night of her life. Her boyfriend's dumped her, literally, in the middle of nowhere and it's cold and the snow's started up again and then she's almost raped and murdered by a psychotic maniac but luckily she's saved in time by the mysterious Helena and her brother Wrath. She thought she'd be safe but they're vampires...
381 pages, Paperback
First published January 22, 2012
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November 26, 2016as always I'm not reviewing my own work, rather talking about the writing of it...
at the time of writing you couldn't open a book and not find a vampire, you couldn't turn on the telly and see a vampire on every channel, but every one of them had a different mythology as to what a vampire was, variety I suppose to attract its own audience perhaps, or to do something different. This book was intended to be kind of the opposite of that, to look at every disparate aspect of vampire lore and put it all together into one work. Each chapter of the book has its own slightly different take on what a vampire is or could be, from the simple monster in the night to the noble self-pitying cursed being. Looking back I see this book as a glorious failure, it became very obsessed with the sexual aspect of vampirism do its detriment. I always tried to write a sequel to it but never could manage more than just a very short story, this is pretty much Debbie's story all told, there just wasn't anything more I could add to it.
at the time of writing you couldn't open a book and not find a vampire, you couldn't turn on the telly and see a vampire on every channel, but every one of them had a different mythology as to what a vampire was, variety I suppose to attract its own audience perhaps, or to do something different. This book was intended to be kind of the opposite of that, to look at every disparate aspect of vampire lore and put it all together into one work. Each chapter of the book has its own slightly different take on what a vampire is or could be, from the simple monster in the night to the noble self-pitying cursed being. Looking back I see this book as a glorious failure, it became very obsessed with the sexual aspect of vampirism do its detriment. I always tried to write a sequel to it but never could manage more than just a very short story, this is pretty much Debbie's story all told, there just wasn't anything more I could add to it.
May 28, 2015
Notes on the new edition:
This is not the same as the previous edition. In order to bring it in line with the Curse-Breaker books a lot of new vampire mythology has been added, introducing three other 'tribes' of vampire in addition to the original one, which is now named the Red Thirst.
The other groups which are mentioned in this book (though only one member of one other tribe is seen) are: the Night Dreamers, the Midnight Singers and the Dark Heart. While Dracula and Rasputin were always claimed to be vampires in the original book, it's now revealed that Dracula was on the Night Dreamers and Rasputin was of the Dark Heart.
Book 4 of the main Curse-Breaker range is set to feature mainly vampires of the Midnight Singers faction. This is not a spoiler, in fact I'm quite surprised I've been restrained in my plotting of the whole series arc to keep the vampire story line back to book 4...
This is not the same as the previous edition. In order to bring it in line with the Curse-Breaker books a lot of new vampire mythology has been added, introducing three other 'tribes' of vampire in addition to the original one, which is now named the Red Thirst.
The other groups which are mentioned in this book (though only one member of one other tribe is seen) are: the Night Dreamers, the Midnight Singers and the Dark Heart. While Dracula and Rasputin were always claimed to be vampires in the original book, it's now revealed that Dracula was on the Night Dreamers and Rasputin was of the Dark Heart.
Book 4 of the main Curse-Breaker range is set to feature mainly vampires of the Midnight Singers faction. This is not a spoiler, in fact I'm quite surprised I've been restrained in my plotting of the whole series arc to keep the vampire story line back to book 4...
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