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Generic Vampire Novel #937: Part Two - Horrorcaust
The concluding volume of the Generic Vampire Novel #937 story, picking up directly where the first book left off (contains SPOILERS for Part One). When last we saw them, Liv Tempest, and her boss, Don Wiebe, were fleeing for their lives in a stretched Hummer, after the movie premiere of Horrorcaust turned into a bloodbath which claimed the lives of the principle actors and the director. Stephen was being hauled off to jail after nearly getting executed in the street, having intentionally broken Martial Law curfew in an attempt to get protective custody. And whatever happened to Shamus Ohio? Against all probability, vampires are real, and this latest manifestation is a result of the popularity of Shamus Ohio's "Horrorcaust" novel and its multimedia adaptations. How can a writer cope with the realisation that his literary creation is destroying the world? How can the US military hope to fight an enemy they can't even see? If the vampire problem has always been caused by popular fiction, can fiction also provide the solution? What can two hack fantasy and science fiction authors with two very polarising viewpoints offer as the key to mankind's salvation?
194 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 31, 2015
About the author
C.Z. Hazard
6 books13 followersC Z Hazard has turned his hand to many things over his thirty-some years on this planet. At various points in his life, he has been a comic store clerk, a professional wrestler, manager to a rap artist, and robot-monger. He’s since taken to writing, because he really rather likes it.
His first novel, "Not In The Eye", was first released in digital format in 2013, and a face-meltingly successful Kickstarter campaign put the book in print in 2015. His second novel, "Generic Vampire Novel #937" was split into two parts for digita release. Part One, "American Sexy", and Part Two, "Horrorcaust", are available to buy on Amazon.
Hazard’s fiction is the transgressive progeny of his lifelong fascination with story and his early immersion in pop culture, which developed through adulthood into a keen interest in media trends and the fame machine that defines it. His work satirises (often brutally) the world we’ve created and the future we are set to inherit.
He’s a devotee of sci fi, a skilled Super Mario player, proponent of the Unified Sock Theory, and a highly vocal advocate of the Oxford Comma. He was also Time Magazine’s Person of The Year 2006. In anticipation of your scepticism, he challenges you to look it up.
His first novel, "Not In The Eye", was first released in digital format in 2013, and a face-meltingly successful Kickstarter campaign put the book in print in 2015. His second novel, "Generic Vampire Novel #937" was split into two parts for digita release. Part One, "American Sexy", and Part Two, "Horrorcaust", are available to buy on Amazon.
Hazard’s fiction is the transgressive progeny of his lifelong fascination with story and his early immersion in pop culture, which developed through adulthood into a keen interest in media trends and the fame machine that defines it. His work satirises (often brutally) the world we’ve created and the future we are set to inherit.
He’s a devotee of sci fi, a skilled Super Mario player, proponent of the Unified Sock Theory, and a highly vocal advocate of the Oxford Comma. He was also Time Magazine’s Person of The Year 2006. In anticipation of your scepticism, he challenges you to look it up.
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November 18, 2015
C Z Hazard's delightfully satirical comedy-horror reaches its epic crescendo in this, the concluding instalment of GVN#937.
WARNING: THE FOLLOWING REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR Generic Vampire Novel 937 Part One - American Sexy.
Picking up precisely where the last book ended, Horrorcaust plunges the reader straight into the apocalyptic deep end; vampires are officially real and humanity is poised on the brink of the precipice, with these highly efficient predators ready to knock them right off the top of the food chain.
Although still infused with the same kind of comedy that makes all Hazard books so thoroughly enjoyable, the humour is darker than in the first volume; the atmosphere is more tense, the escalation of events is genuinely frightening and the story sprints towards a nail-bitingly taut climax.
As in the first volume, alternating chapters provide a wealth of metatextual material that enhances and expands the story. This innovative device gives the novel a depth and texture that elevates it way above your standard mankind-vs-the-apocalypse or comedy-horror fare.
GVN#937 is a clever deconstruction of the vampire myth throughout history and across all cultures; it unifies and reconciles all aspects (even the contradictory ones) of collective vampire mythology, redefining the vampire as an amorphous and perennial foe.
WARNING: THE FOLLOWING REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR Generic Vampire Novel 937 Part One - American Sexy.
Picking up precisely where the last book ended, Horrorcaust plunges the reader straight into the apocalyptic deep end; vampires are officially real and humanity is poised on the brink of the precipice, with these highly efficient predators ready to knock them right off the top of the food chain.
Although still infused with the same kind of comedy that makes all Hazard books so thoroughly enjoyable, the humour is darker than in the first volume; the atmosphere is more tense, the escalation of events is genuinely frightening and the story sprints towards a nail-bitingly taut climax.
As in the first volume, alternating chapters provide a wealth of metatextual material that enhances and expands the story. This innovative device gives the novel a depth and texture that elevates it way above your standard mankind-vs-the-apocalypse or comedy-horror fare.
GVN#937 is a clever deconstruction of the vampire myth throughout history and across all cultures; it unifies and reconciles all aspects (even the contradictory ones) of collective vampire mythology, redefining the vampire as an amorphous and perennial foe.
March 4, 2016
Good read
An interesting take on the Vampire phenomenon. But the reason I really enjoyed these 2 books was the deeper story of our modern society and politics. In the foot steps of George Orwell,fantasy exposing a dystopian world
An interesting take on the Vampire phenomenon. But the reason I really enjoyed these 2 books was the deeper story of our modern society and politics. In the foot steps of George Orwell,fantasy exposing a dystopian world
December 18, 2016
A fantastic read, written with a sharp wit that would cut diamonds.
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