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Fat White Vampire #2
Bride of the Fat White Vampire
After morphing into 187 very large white rats in the name of self-preservation, Jules Duchon is back to his portly self, a member of that secret class of New Orleans citizens known as the undead. Though he would like nothing better than to spend his nights raising hell and biting flesh in his beloved French Quarter, duty calls when an exclusive club of blue blood vampires demands that the 450-pound cabbie find out who is attacking its young and beautiful members. Adding insult to injury, he has to enlist the help of a former a black vampire named Preston. What’s a vampire to do? Without the love of a woman to ease his pain, Jules isn’t convinced that his undead life is worth living. He doesn’t desire Doodlebug (she may be a woman now but Jules knew her back when she was just a boy) any more than he longs for Daphne, a rat catcher who nourishes a crush the size of Jules. No, only Maureen will do. Once a beautiful stripper with nothing but curve after curve to her bodacious body, now she is mere dust in a jar. But Jules will move heaven and earth to get her back . . . even if it means pulling her back from the dead.
448 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2004
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About the author
Andrew Fox
48 books36 followersAndrew Fox was born in Miami Beach in 1964. He has been a fan of science fiction and horror since he saw Godzilla and friends romp through Destroy All Monsters at the drive-in theater at the age of three. In 1994, he joined award-winning science fiction author George Alec Effinger's monthly writing workshop group in New Orleans, where Andrew lived for more than two decades. Since 2009, he has lived in Northern Virginia with his wife and three boys, where he works for a federal law enforcement agency.
His first novel, Fat White Vampire Blues, published by Ballantine Books in 2003, was widely described as "Anne Rice meets A Confederacy of Dunces." It won the Ruthven Award for Best Vampire Fiction of 2003. Its sequel, Bride of the Fat White Vampire, was published in 2004. His third novel, The Good Humor Man, or, Calorie 3501, was published by Tachyon Publications in April, 2009. It was selected by Booklist as one of the Ten Best SF/Fantasy Novels of the Year and was first runner up for the Darrell Award, presented for best SF or fantasy novel written by a Mid-South author or set in the Mid-South. In 2006, he was one of the three winners of the Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Award.
Andrew is an outspoken advocate for freedom of speech and thought in science fiction. MonstraCity Press is publishing two volumes of short fiction that, in the tradition of Harlan Ellison's groundbreaking anthologies Dangerous Visions and Again, Dangerous Visions, push the boundaries of what is considered taboo in science fiction. The first volume, Hazardous Imaginings: The Mondo Book of Politically Incorrect Science Fiction, includes two of Andrew's short novels and three of his stories. The second volume, Again, Hazardous Imaginings, features 14 stories by writers from all over the world. Science fiction is not a safe space!
MonstraCity Press has published Fire on Iron (Book One of Midnight's Inferno: the August Micholson Chronicles), a steampunk dark fantasy novel set aboard ironclad gunboats during the Civil War, and will publish the second book in the series, Hellfire and Damnation, in 2023. MonstraCity Press has also published the third book in the Fat White Vampire series, Fat White Vampire Otaku, and the fourth book in the series, Hunt the Fat White Vampire, both in 2021. The Bad Luck Spirits' Social Aid and Pleasure Club, a fantasy novel which intertwines a supernatural secret history of New Orleans with Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, also came out in 2021; this is a tie-in to the Fat White Vampire series.
In 2022, Potomac Books, an imprint of The University of Nebraska Press, published Andrew's first non-fiction book, The Devil's Toy Box: Exposing and Defusing Promethean Terrorists. In 2023, Agaddah Try It, an imprint of Madness Heart Press, published his novel The End of Daze, an eschatological satire that presents the end times from an off-kilter Jewish perspective.
Andrew's other jobs have been varied. He has worked at a children's psychiatric center, managed a statewide supplemental nutrition program for senior citizens, taught musical theater and improv to children, and sold Saturn cars and trucks (just before the automotive division was abolished by General Motors). He has also been a mime (in his younger days) and produced a multi-sensory interactive play for blind children in New Orleans.
Andrew Fox's website and blog can be found at:
www.fantasticalandrewfox.com
The latest information about MonstraCity Press books can be found at:
www.monstracitypress.com
His first novel, Fat White Vampire Blues, published by Ballantine Books in 2003, was widely described as "Anne Rice meets A Confederacy of Dunces." It won the Ruthven Award for Best Vampire Fiction of 2003. Its sequel, Bride of the Fat White Vampire, was published in 2004. His third novel, The Good Humor Man, or, Calorie 3501, was published by Tachyon Publications in April, 2009. It was selected by Booklist as one of the Ten Best SF/Fantasy Novels of the Year and was first runner up for the Darrell Award, presented for best SF or fantasy novel written by a Mid-South author or set in the Mid-South. In 2006, he was one of the three winners of the Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Award.
Andrew is an outspoken advocate for freedom of speech and thought in science fiction. MonstraCity Press is publishing two volumes of short fiction that, in the tradition of Harlan Ellison's groundbreaking anthologies Dangerous Visions and Again, Dangerous Visions, push the boundaries of what is considered taboo in science fiction. The first volume, Hazardous Imaginings: The Mondo Book of Politically Incorrect Science Fiction, includes two of Andrew's short novels and three of his stories. The second volume, Again, Hazardous Imaginings, features 14 stories by writers from all over the world. Science fiction is not a safe space!
MonstraCity Press has published Fire on Iron (Book One of Midnight's Inferno: the August Micholson Chronicles), a steampunk dark fantasy novel set aboard ironclad gunboats during the Civil War, and will publish the second book in the series, Hellfire and Damnation, in 2023. MonstraCity Press has also published the third book in the Fat White Vampire series, Fat White Vampire Otaku, and the fourth book in the series, Hunt the Fat White Vampire, both in 2021. The Bad Luck Spirits' Social Aid and Pleasure Club, a fantasy novel which intertwines a supernatural secret history of New Orleans with Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, also came out in 2021; this is a tie-in to the Fat White Vampire series.
In 2022, Potomac Books, an imprint of The University of Nebraska Press, published Andrew's first non-fiction book, The Devil's Toy Box: Exposing and Defusing Promethean Terrorists. In 2023, Agaddah Try It, an imprint of Madness Heart Press, published his novel The End of Daze, an eschatological satire that presents the end times from an off-kilter Jewish perspective.
Andrew's other jobs have been varied. He has worked at a children's psychiatric center, managed a statewide supplemental nutrition program for senior citizens, taught musical theater and improv to children, and sold Saturn cars and trucks (just before the automotive division was abolished by General Motors). He has also been a mime (in his younger days) and produced a multi-sensory interactive play for blind children in New Orleans.
Andrew Fox's website and blog can be found at:
www.fantasticalandrewfox.com
The latest information about MonstraCity Press books can be found at:
www.monstracitypress.com
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August 23, 2010
The sequel to Fat White Vampire Blues takes the characters in a different direction. The first was a sort of vampiric love letter to John Kennedy Toole's "A Confederacy of Dunces," the second is a vampiric love letter to pulp detective novels. More fun than funny, it's still a good read.
August 22, 2016
The rats were a fun idea and I appreciated that Jules got hung up about his missing rodent, most guys would, but the humor could have been increased ten fold. It was a silly concept and would have benefited from some less subtle / implied humor.
January 6, 2019
I know a lot of fans from the first book might be disappointing that this one wasn't aiming as hard for comedy. But instead aiming for a vampire=based noir book, Fox ended up writing a FAR superior book. More smartly put together,more engaging and realistic characters, just over all smarter.
May 11, 2010
More tasty down-home hijinks with an unconventional character serving as a detective. Devolves into corny silliness but it's fun for the most part.
May 14, 2022
The story itself was good but there were times when Jules goes off on a tangent while thinking about things that have happened and his theories about everything. It makes the story drag at times because he zones out to speculate and it has nothing to do with what’s going on in the story at the time.
Some questions you have from the first book are answered and more questions are left at the end. It’s both funny and gory at times. If you enjoyed the story of Fat White Vampire I would recommend.
Some questions you have from the first book are answered and more questions are left at the end. It’s both funny and gory at times. If you enjoyed the story of Fat White Vampire I would recommend.
May 28, 2021
I enjoyed this even more than the first one. Every book review is rather pointless isn't it, as one man's meat is another man's poison so to speak. I liked this book because I like and care for the main characters, story was amusing and original, funny too. I'd read more and have just discovered there is a third book...
January 5, 2015
Years ago, I read and reviewed Fat White Vampire Blues. In that novel, Andrew Fox introduces us to a series of absurdly fascinating characters, including the title fat vamp character Jules Duchon. Jules is a huge man, a giant, disgusting, vampiric tub of lard. He is smaller than the oracle record keeping fat vampire in Blade. He is smaller than a house. But his 400-500 pound size is becoming a problem for him.
An undead of his size cannot simply stalk prey, let alone the prey he prefers. Jules enjoys the a or of humans that are equally fat. He wants triglycerides and fat blood that taste so good on his tongue. Jules has eased this need by driving a cab. He picks up prey, gasses them, then gorges on their semi-narcotic laced blood in privacy.
Bride of the fat white vampire is equally as fun to read as the original novel. But also incredibly easy to spoil. Rather than doing so, let's focus in what makes this vampire series different than all the other trash in the genre.
• The FWV books focus in part on the mythology that vampires can turn into mist, bats and other shapes. The cool thing here is they address the physics of it. Mass cannot simply appear and disappear. As such, a regular human shapes hooting into a bat would end up a 6ft tall vampire bat. So what happens to the mass? Explained.. Worth reading the series for this original thought process.
• One of the more common bullshit plot elements in vampire novels usually entails a struggle between vamps and werewolves, the Catholics, and several oter sects of undead (sorry Catholics). FWV gracefully transitions to a more classic struggle that is very black and white, racial in nature. Taking place in the south, Jules Is involved in some interesting racially motivated situations, unexpected for the undead.
• Incredibly candid sexuality. We are not talking over the top Souki Stackhouse garbage. We are talking some doodlebug owning being doodlebug action, maybe some kinky body modification?
But most of that is book one. Bride of is a spoiler potential minefield.
Just read both of them and consider yourself solid.
In writing this, I learned there is now a third book. "Fat White Vampire Otaku".. Time to add it to the shelves. Author website says May 2014... So get to releasing publishers?!!
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Reblurb:
Not needed, the publisher description is very adequate
Publisher's summary:
After morphing into 187 very large white rats in the name of self-preservation, Jules Duchon is back to his portly self, a member of that secret class of New Orleans citizens known as the undead. Though he would like nothing better than to spend his nights raising hell and biting flesh in his beloved French Quarter, duty calls when an exclusive club of blue blood vampires demands that the 450-pound cabbie find out who is attacking its young and beautiful members. Adding insult to injury, he has to enlist the help of a former foe: a black vampire named Preston.
What’s a vampire to do? Without the love of a woman to ease his pain, Jules isn’t convinced that his undead life is worth living. He doesn’t desire Doodlebug (she may be a woman now but Jules knew her back when she was just a boy) any more than he longs for Daphne, a rat catcher who nourishes a crush the size of Jules. No, only Maureen will do. Once a beautiful stripper with nothing but curve after curve to her bodacious body, now she is mere dust in a jar. But Jules will move heaven and earth to get her back . . . even if it means pulling her back from the dead.
Pages: 448
Publisher: Ballantine Books (2004)
ISBN-10: 0345464087
ISBN-13: 978-0345464088
An undead of his size cannot simply stalk prey, let alone the prey he prefers. Jules enjoys the a or of humans that are equally fat. He wants triglycerides and fat blood that taste so good on his tongue. Jules has eased this need by driving a cab. He picks up prey, gasses them, then gorges on their semi-narcotic laced blood in privacy.
Bride of the fat white vampire is equally as fun to read as the original novel. But also incredibly easy to spoil. Rather than doing so, let's focus in what makes this vampire series different than all the other trash in the genre.
• The FWV books focus in part on the mythology that vampires can turn into mist, bats and other shapes. The cool thing here is they address the physics of it. Mass cannot simply appear and disappear. As such, a regular human shapes hooting into a bat would end up a 6ft tall vampire bat. So what happens to the mass? Explained.. Worth reading the series for this original thought process.
• One of the more common bullshit plot elements in vampire novels usually entails a struggle between vamps and werewolves, the Catholics, and several oter sects of undead (sorry Catholics). FWV gracefully transitions to a more classic struggle that is very black and white, racial in nature. Taking place in the south, Jules Is involved in some interesting racially motivated situations, unexpected for the undead.
• Incredibly candid sexuality. We are not talking over the top Souki Stackhouse garbage. We are talking some doodlebug owning being doodlebug action, maybe some kinky body modification?
But most of that is book one. Bride of is a spoiler potential minefield.
Just read both of them and consider yourself solid.
In writing this, I learned there is now a third book. "Fat White Vampire Otaku".. Time to add it to the shelves. Author website says May 2014... So get to releasing publishers?!!
-----
Reblurb:
Not needed, the publisher description is very adequate
Publisher's summary:
After morphing into 187 very large white rats in the name of self-preservation, Jules Duchon is back to his portly self, a member of that secret class of New Orleans citizens known as the undead. Though he would like nothing better than to spend his nights raising hell and biting flesh in his beloved French Quarter, duty calls when an exclusive club of blue blood vampires demands that the 450-pound cabbie find out who is attacking its young and beautiful members. Adding insult to injury, he has to enlist the help of a former foe: a black vampire named Preston.
What’s a vampire to do? Without the love of a woman to ease his pain, Jules isn’t convinced that his undead life is worth living. He doesn’t desire Doodlebug (she may be a woman now but Jules knew her back when she was just a boy) any more than he longs for Daphne, a rat catcher who nourishes a crush the size of Jules. No, only Maureen will do. Once a beautiful stripper with nothing but curve after curve to her bodacious body, now she is mere dust in a jar. But Jules will move heaven and earth to get her back . . . even if it means pulling her back from the dead.
Pages: 448
Publisher: Ballantine Books (2004)
ISBN-10: 0345464087
ISBN-13: 978-0345464088
March 25, 2014
A sequel to Fat White Vampire Blues. Again, I picked it up with low expectations. I wanted a few more laughs and liked the twist on the traditional sexy vampire. In that way, it again did not disappoint. I also think the author's skills have improved slightly.
I wanted to know what happened to Jules after he found his higher conscience in the form of a bunch of rats feasting on the city's trash rather than the blood which he needs as a vampire. Forced back into his former form, Jules is put to work as an investigator for a powerful vampire. He's lonely and missing Maureen, his portly creator who was killed in the first book, but he tries to do his job and return to the simpler life.
Reminds me a bit of Bride of Frankenstein and the seriel detective novels rolled into one. There were some funny scenes with Jules' mom and his missing manhood in the form of one very fat rat with a mind of its own! If the author writes another one, I'll probably read it when I want a book that will not tax my brain or my emotions. This was a nice little departure from the book club selections.
I wanted to know what happened to Jules after he found his higher conscience in the form of a bunch of rats feasting on the city's trash rather than the blood which he needs as a vampire. Forced back into his former form, Jules is put to work as an investigator for a powerful vampire. He's lonely and missing Maureen, his portly creator who was killed in the first book, but he tries to do his job and return to the simpler life.
Reminds me a bit of Bride of Frankenstein and the seriel detective novels rolled into one. There were some funny scenes with Jules' mom and his missing manhood in the form of one very fat rat with a mind of its own! If the author writes another one, I'll probably read it when I want a book that will not tax my brain or my emotions. This was a nice little departure from the book club selections.
January 21, 2011
This sequel to Fat White Vampire Blues was almost as much of a disappointment as the first book. The events in this book occur shortly after Fat White Vampire Blues concludes but don't get rehashed for the reader's reminder so if you don't read them back to back you find yourself backpeddling a bit in order to follow the storylines. Bride of Fat White Vampire gets to its plot line a lot more quickly than the first book which is a good thing. Unfortunately, Bride of Fat White Vampire isn't as good as the original and considering how unenthused I was with the first book, this isn't saying much. Basically, now that the initial danger for our protagonist has passed and he's living a contented life in many, many pieces, Andrew Fox was challenged with coming up with a gimmick of sorts to bring Jules back. Personally, I think that “Fat White Vampire Detective” would've been a more accurate title considering that this entire book is basically a vampiric love letter to pulp detective novels.
June 8, 2011
In this sequel to Fat White Vampire, we journey back to New Orleans where Jules has turned himself into 187 white rats and is enjoying a guilt free life of gourmate dumpster diving. Next thing he knows, he's in a big wire cage, naked and missing a vital part of his anatomy. Seem Doodlebug needs his help in keeping his retreat and the High Krew is requesting his help, or else! Several of their young women have been mutilated and they want to know who's doing this and why. Jules is now forced to become a detective to help his old friend and ends up working with his old enemys - the Malice X gang.
I really enjoyed this book even more so than the first. It was great reading about old friends like Jules, Doodlebug and Ernato. When the plot got into the whole land development plot I thought I would zone out or find it excrucitatingly boring but I didn't so that was a plus.
I hope we continue to see other Jules adventures.
I really enjoyed this book even more so than the first. It was great reading about old friends like Jules, Doodlebug and Ernato. When the plot got into the whole land development plot I thought I would zone out or find it excrucitatingly boring but I didn't so that was a plus.
I hope we continue to see other Jules adventures.
January 4, 2008
Sequel to Fat White Vampire Blues, events in this book occur shortly after Fat White concludes. I wish I'd read this one sooner after finish the previous, because even though much mention is made of the previous events not all the details are rehashed and I'd forgotten a bunch. Almost as much fun as the first book, this one has Jules Duchon conscripted as a detective by the High Krewe, who convince him that it is in his best interest to work for them or Doodlebug loses his California institute. As Jules investigates, he discovers that the motives behind the attacks on the young High Krewe members are both simpler and more complicated than he expected. A satisfying read, which brought much amusement. Hope the author has plans to continue on with the series.
May 19, 2014
The Bride of the Fat White Vampire (Fat White Vampire #2) by Andrew Fox (Ballantine Books 2004) (Fiction- Thriller). Jules Duchon is up to his old tricks as a 450 pound vampire cabdriver in New Orleans. He is soon tasked by the local blue-blood vampires with the job of finding out who is killing its young and beautiful members. Jules only wants the love of his good woman - Maureen the stripper goddess - but he may have to pull Maureen back from the undead to achieve this. This tale is truly surreal and completely unlike any other vampire tale the reader may have encountered before. My rating: 7/10, finished 2012.
May 12, 2008
Unfortunately, Bride isn't as good as the original. Now that his initial danger has passed (and he's living a contented life in many, many pieces), Fox had to come up with a gimmick to bring Jules back. Fat White Vampire Detective would've been a more accurate title.
And though the novelty has worn off a little, Jules is still fun. Doodlebug adds an interesting element (Thin White Vampire Transvestite), as do the creepy Krewe. But this one feels a little forced.
And though the novelty has worn off a little, Jules is still fun. Doodlebug adds an interesting element (Thin White Vampire Transvestite), as do the creepy Krewe. But this one feels a little forced.
June 18, 2009
Gets to its plot line a lot more quickly than the first--which is a good thing. Complicated mystery with happy elements of the grotesque and macabre and plenty of humor. Things get thoroughly wrapped up at the end, so the next one might be "Son of the Fat White Vampire" or "Fat White Vampire Goes to College"....
July 2, 2012
I really enjoyed this sequel to the Fat White Vampire Blues. Jules is back and forced to investigate and solve a mystery involving both of the local clans of vampires. We are taken on a roller coaster ride as Jules and friends try to solve they mystery before it is too late. Loved the finale and hope that we see more of these characters in the future.
June 11, 2008
Set in New Orleans, the second of the Fat Vampire series has a much different slant than your typical S7M vampire novel. For onr thing, this vampires loves Cajun & creole cooking, or at least the blood of those who have feasted on crayfish!
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February 7, 2009
A great sequel to the first novel that dove right in where it left off without being cheap in "digging" out a plot from the end of the first novel. Fun and as always very funny writing. Awesome.
September 12, 2009
A great follow-up to the first book. Definitely an unexpected spin on the vampire genre.
October 31, 2009
Not as good as the first book.
February 21, 2010
Another fun story about a nontraditional vampire. Fox infuses so much humor in a suspensfull story.
March 1, 2017
A little slower paced than the first, but still fun nonetheless. Cool read and something that has you guessing right through. Some slow parts, but all in all, a terrific read.
November 20, 2011
Laugh out loud funny!
March 14, 2020
I wish this was a trilogy, like a big helping of gumbo poured over a hunk of fried grits, just delicious!
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