Vampire's Moon

by Peter Saxon

The shadow of the Vampire Prince and his legion of ghouls darkened the tiny village high in the mountains of Rumania. Far from civilization, the Vampire Prince held sway over the superstitious peasants. They helped him lure two visiting American girls into his bat-infested lair. The girls didn't believe in vampires. By the time they began to believe, it was too late.

Genres: Horror, Gothic, Fiction, Vampires

Paperback

First published January 1, 1970

About the author

Peter Saxon was a house pseudonym used by various authors of British pulp fiction, among them W Howard Baker (Danger Ahead 1958, The Killing Bone 1968 and Vampire's Moon 1972); Rex Dolphin (The Vampires of Finistère 1968); Stephen D Frances (The Disorientated Man aka Scream and Scream Again 1966, Black Honey 1968, and Corruption 1968); Wilfred McNeilly (The Darkest Night 1966, Dark Ways to Death 1966, Satan's Child 1967, The Torturer 1967, and The Haunting of Alan Mais 1969); Ross Richards (Through the Dark Curtain 1968); and Martin Thomas (The Curse of Rathlaw 1968).

Reviews

[Charles · Rating 4 out of 5]

It has a horrible cover but the book is pretty good. I like the writing and the author does a good job with creating atomsphere. The real author here is W. Howard Baker.

[Henry Whitenack · Rating 3 out of 5]

A bit of an anticlimactic ending, but I liked it overall. About the last third or so of the book was spent wandering around the creepy castle with bats and booby traps galore. But I thought this part of the book lost some steam as they went from one creepy area to another with a bit too much description of the corridors and hallways for my liking. But overall, pretty good writing! Guess I just liked the setup a bit more than the payoff

[Sandi · Rating 4 out of 5]

So true dark confession, I am not a reader of horror generally but this oldish 70’s paperback came to me in such an odd way it was compelling.

So I read it and thought, hey, that was fun and much better than I had expected!

I sort of fell in love with the cover because it reminded me of Noel Fielding, the charming gothic host on “The Great British Baking Show”. He sometimes refers to himself as a vampire...

So really, I am thinking there are others of us who are equally capricious with reading choices...and I love that unexpected out-of-my-genre experience.