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Vamp: The Novelization
At school, getting into the right fraternity can be a matter of life or death. Keith and AJ need to hire a stripper to entertain the brothers or their college days are over. In a shady after hours joint they find an adult entertainer like no other when they step into the world of sharp-fanged Katrina. Have these two freshmen bitten off more than they can chew? Stuck on the wrong side of town, on a dark night and surrounded by a plague of blood suckers… The answer is definitely yes!
260 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 15, 2022
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February 20, 2022
I was given a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
I really enjoyed this vampire tale. The vampires we’re vicious and definitely not sparkly. I like my vampires mean and brutal in these definitely were. The main characters were likable and I wanted them to survive and succeed. Now I must watch the movie this was based on, I never heard of this movie until seeing this novelization. Great story overall and I would highly recommend it!
I really enjoyed this vampire tale. The vampires we’re vicious and definitely not sparkly. I like my vampires mean and brutal in these definitely were. The main characters were likable and I wanted them to survive and succeed. Now I must watch the movie this was based on, I never heard of this movie until seeing this novelization. Great story overall and I would highly recommend it!
March 24, 2022
Full review to follow on Horror DNA.
Christian is a friend. I support friends.
My book will be out with this press soon.
I want to support them too because they are fantastic.
But I also love 80s horror/
This is great.
Highly recommended especially the version with the interviews and script.
Christian is a friend. I support friends.
My book will be out with this press soon.
I want to support them too because they are fantastic.
But I also love 80s horror/
This is great.
Highly recommended especially the version with the interviews and script.
March 9, 2022
Welcome BACK to the After Dark Club... WOW! I got chills so many times throughout this book. It completely blew my mind... It managed to surpass my high expectations of what I wanted a VAMP novelization to be AND be nothing at all like I expected. In all the best ways!
This novel offers up all the things that the 1986 movie version gave to us, taking prompts from the original (pre-edited down) screenplay, and then blows the roof off with brand new characters, backstories, and expanded sequences you will remember from the movie.
This After Dark Club world is so fully fleshed out, spine-tinglingly terrifying, and meticulously crafted by author Christian Francis, that at some points, I forgot I was reading a novelization of the beloved cult classic! Figuring this for an urban vampire thriller that delivers in all the high octane, deliberately comedic, and horrifyingly gory ways that the movie version did, some 35 years ago.
I highly recommend this novelization to genre fans. And to make a fantastic retelling of this story even better... there are exclusive interviews from original cast and crew members, exclusive photos, and a foreword by director Richard Wenk! The expanded edition even features Wenk's fantastic screenplay from the movie! Bravo Encyclopocalypse Publishing and Christian Francis!
This novel offers up all the things that the 1986 movie version gave to us, taking prompts from the original (pre-edited down) screenplay, and then blows the roof off with brand new characters, backstories, and expanded sequences you will remember from the movie.
This After Dark Club world is so fully fleshed out, spine-tinglingly terrifying, and meticulously crafted by author Christian Francis, that at some points, I forgot I was reading a novelization of the beloved cult classic! Figuring this for an urban vampire thriller that delivers in all the high octane, deliberately comedic, and horrifyingly gory ways that the movie version did, some 35 years ago.
I highly recommend this novelization to genre fans. And to make a fantastic retelling of this story even better... there are exclusive interviews from original cast and crew members, exclusive photos, and a foreword by director Richard Wenk! The expanded edition even features Wenk's fantastic screenplay from the movie! Bravo Encyclopocalypse Publishing and Christian Francis!
June 4, 2023
Good vampire story that features really evil vampires. Keith and AJ are best friends that go to the seedy side of town to find a stripper for a fraternity party. They enter a super creepy club called the After Dark Club that is really run by vampires! In their quest to hire a stripper, they boys stick their noses into places they should not go.
The Queen of the Vampires is vicious and feared by everyone around her. I thought the book was well written and very interesting. It had some scary parts and was very tense.
The Queen of the Vampires is vicious and feared by everyone around her. I thought the book was well written and very interesting. It had some scary parts and was very tense.
March 10, 2022
Three quarters of the way through this novel version of Vamp (1986). Very good so far, quite different from the film. But all those characters that are familiar and well-rounded. The history of the after dark club is really interesting and their are some new characters. 5/5 so far!
December 8, 2024
This was a great movie, and I really don't like vampire films and books. The book was just as well done. It had a lot of background and other things that was not in the movie. Sometimes when you screw with a good thing, it sometimes goes bad. This. I'm happy to say added some new life into it.
March 14, 2022
Author Christian Francis expands and improves the 1986 cult classic Vamp with his novelization of the film. I adored this book and had a blast re-visiting the film immediately after reading it.
March 17, 2022
As part of my research for writing a review of this novelization of Vamp, I watched the movie (released in 1986) it was based on. There is a great film buried in that B flick, and its DNA can be found in films such as Bordello of Blood and From Dusk Till Dawn, both of which were released a decade later in 1996. It turns out that vampires and strippers (or hookers) go together like peanut butter and chocolate, and Vamp deserves credit for making that connection.
As a novelization, Vamp is more successful than the original source material. In addition to fixing a few plot holes found in the film, Christian Francis does a good job of giving the major (and a few minor) characters interesting back stories. Like all great film novelizations (Alien by Alan Dean Foster springs to mind) this book stands on its own, and it is a novel that can be enjoyed without ever having seen the movie that inspired it.
As a novelization, Vamp is more successful than the original source material. In addition to fixing a few plot holes found in the film, Christian Francis does a good job of giving the major (and a few minor) characters interesting back stories. Like all great film novelizations (Alien by Alan Dean Foster springs to mind) this book stands on its own, and it is a novel that can be enjoyed without ever having seen the movie that inspired it.
August 30, 2023
Having never read a novelisation before, but being a big fan of Christian's, he was kind enough to send me a copy of this as a gift for a review I did on one of this other books on TikTok.
He warned me he did what he could with the screenplay, but not to expect the same level as his own original works, but I was pleasantly entertained throughout. Having never heard of the movie let alone seen it before, I was instantly transported back to the days of 80's movies, cheesy lines, and ridiculous notions. Having read Christian's works before, it was easy to spot which parts were adapted from the screenplay and which parts were original. The micro-storytelling and the detailed descriptions were all Christian, and made the story, which would otherwise have been pretty standard, pop with nostalgia, vivid imagery and above all... fun!
He warned me he did what he could with the screenplay, but not to expect the same level as his own original works, but I was pleasantly entertained throughout. Having never heard of the movie let alone seen it before, I was instantly transported back to the days of 80's movies, cheesy lines, and ridiculous notions. Having read Christian's works before, it was easy to spot which parts were adapted from the screenplay and which parts were original. The micro-storytelling and the detailed descriptions were all Christian, and made the story, which would otherwise have been pretty standard, pop with nostalgia, vivid imagery and above all... fun!
March 10, 2022
superb book. Love this movie and was curios about the novelization. great read, more please!
June 24, 2023
A great novelisation, will read again!
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