Descendant
The Revelations of Oriceran

Veteran genre writer Graham Masterton gives the vampire a daring and unnerving makeover in Descendant, a novel which mixes the undead, espionage, and scares to great effect. Masterton's prose is steady and streamlined, and thankfully he avoids the common pitfall of stretching his story out beyond it......more

Descendant is a decidedly old school type of vampire novel. Whereas these days, the type of vampire that dominates fiction is either the sparkly type or the dashing bad boy type, the strigoi in this novel are clearly more of the monster variety. The concept of this novel is really neat. The nazis in......more

Graham Masterton is simply too good of a writer to put out a crap book. This, however, isn't his strongest effort. It's short and entertaining, but I'd caution anyone against judging Masterton's talents based on this book. It's a take on a classic vampire hunter against vampires story, starring Roma......more

Entertaining but sometimes silly......more

The title of the book kinda gives away the biggest twist in the story, and how that guy could have failed to know that his girlfriend/wife had been turned is beyond me. Still, it was a well-written exposition of a solidly-crafted plot, and a very pleasant read.......more