Demon Spawn: Tales from Demon Under Glass

by Laura Baumbach

204 pages, Paperback

First published September 28, 2000

About the author

Laura Baumbach is the best-selling, multi-award winning, acclaimed author of short stories, novellas, novels and screenplays. Most recently, Mexican Heat, written in collaboration with Josh Lanyon, has been chosen as a FINALIST for Best Gay Romance in the 2009 Lambda Literary Awards, a FINALIST in the 2010 EPPIE Awards, and has received an Honorable Mention at the 2009 San Francisco Book Festival. Laura was nominated for Best GBLT Author 2008 in the LRC's Best Of Awards for 2008. Her adventure story The Lost Temple of Karttikeya won the 2008 EPPIE Award for Best GLBT novel. Her sequel to the best-selling novel A Bit of Rough, Roughhousing, was 2007 Reviewers' Choice Award Winner.

Reviews

[J'aime · Rating 4 out of 5]

I never saw the movie "Demon Under Glass," but greatly enjoyed this book anyway. The title is a little misleading though, as this is not really a collection of "tales." Each tale may as well be a chapter in a regular book because the chronology flows linearly.

Demonspawn focuses on the relationship between Simon Molinar, the amoral vampire, and Joseph McKay, the doctor who experimented on him. They end up on the run together and the book explores Simon's attempts to seduce Joseph into becoming his companion. Simon's existence as a predator, and the doctor who tortured him in the name of science and despite the Hippocratic Oath, raises interesting questions on the nature of evil and love.

This title can be classified as slash, as McKay and Molinar do have sex. But, fans of vampire fiction who didn't mind the homosexual overtones in Anne Rice's books should enjoy this one. Too bad it and the sequel are OOP.

[Lasha · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars.