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shout out to 80s horror fiction for being such 80s horror fiction: we have just read a flashback to our antagonist as a teenager staying for a time with his foster father's sister & her two teenage daughters & witnessing them having an orgy with a satyr, & then as an adult confess to the millennia old vampire trapped in its mausoleum that he is an adult virgin & been laughed at & mocked for it. god bless (genuinely)

definitely a bit of a slow start in favor of building atmosphere, but some books really call for a more deliberate pacing to let you sit with them. enjoying both the early glimpses of keogh's ability to commune with ghosts & dragosani's early interactions with the vampire (whose name we've not yet gotten). this is a kind of vampire i haven't seen in quite some time; i'm stoked to see just what horrors he wreaks

having fun with this so far! feels very prototypically 80s horror, at least to my inexperienced eye (i'm more familiar w 80s horror films than w its books), w a post-cold war red scare secret paranormal organization operating from within the KGB, & its english counterpart. love the horror of the necromancy in this so far, with dragosani literally carving it out of corpses. curious to see how keogh's arc progresses

none of my october spooky reads from the library have come in yet so we will be starting instead with this! bc i have it on my shelves lol