Vampyrrhic

Simon Clark has written a very creepy and mind blowing vampire story that keeps you on the edge of your seat. The town of Leppington is full of all kinds of surprises.....vampire creatures stir beneath it's streets in sewers and tunnels! I really liked this book because there was actually a story involved not just blood and guts. The characters were very interesting and memorable. I highly recommend this book if you want to read a "different" kind of Vampire book.

There are only a few people who seem to be able to breathe new life (pardon the pun) into novels about the undead. King did it in the 1970s, George R R Martin did it with Fevre Dream, and a few others (Robert McCammon, Dan Simmons, and newcomer Jonathan Maberry) are the only others that spring to mind. But Simon Clark's Vampyrrhic can stand alongside any of them.

Now that Stephen King has announced his retirement, Clark is all set to take over as the new "grand-master of horror." Clark has written a gripping read that never lets go. The story revolves around David Leppington who goes home to his hometown of Leppington in jolly old England. It his first visit back since he was a child and he visits his old uncle who seems nice enough, but rambles on about the family descending from Nordic gods and a vampire army. Sure it's a bit far-fetched, but isn't horror?Strange things start to happen to the residents and soon enough David and the residents of the hotel where he is staying start to discover bizarre happenings.A truly epic novel and a great quick read from a writer who knows how to chill a reader's blood. The sweetest part is there is a followup in the works, Vamphyrric Rites.Good job, Simon, keep em coming.

Simon Clark has written one of the most viscerally chilling vampire novels I've read in recent memory! David Leppington returns to the british villiage which he left as a small child;which he shares the same name with and uncovers of horrifying secret underneath the town which is connected to his family.A army of hideous vampire creatures come out at night as feast upon the citizens. He now must do battle with terrifying creatures who's blood lust knows no bounds! He is aid by Electra Charnwood, a hotel owner, jack Black a goth thug and a young woman names Beatrice. Clark's chilling vampire novel is stark departure from the vampire books we are use to reading. There are no erotic scenes of bloodletting and vampires are not handsome men or seductive women.These are bloodthirsty creatures with a unholy hunger who live in tunnels below the town and are waiting for centuries to come out to feast! there are brutal scenes of the vampires killing their human prey with their razor sharp teeth and even more brutal scenes of the heroes battling the vampires in their underground lair!This is the first book by Clark I've read and certainly won't be the last!

Simon Clark writes trash horror novels (are there any other kind?), and he does it brilliantly. There isn't anything in the book that will take you by surprise - it's all straight out of the stock cupboard. And yet there's a certain magic. He makes you keep reading. You need to know what happens next. I think it is because he makes you believe in his characters. The situations are stultifyingly familiar to anyone who has even skimmed the horror genre, but Clark fills the stock scenarios with people that you care about. They have lives; they live and love and laugh, and you grieve when they die horrible deaths and you cheer when they triumph over the evil monsters. Yes it's manipulative as all hell, but Clark controls his material with the sure hand of a master. When you do it this well, even the clichés take on new after lives.