Some of Your Blood

Name: Some of Your Blood
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Theodore Sturgeon
ISBN: 9781433275524

Author: Theodore Sturgeon

Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner

Unabridged: 4 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 04/18/2012

Categories: Fiction, Horror

Synopsis

Named one of the Top 40 Horror Books of All Time by the Horror Writers Association, Theodore Sturgeons dark and foreboding look at the vampire myth was an instant classic when it was originally published. Army psychiatrist Philip Outerbridge receives a confidential folder containing the letters, memos, and transcripts for a young soldier named George Smitha quiet young man with a terrible past and a shocking secret. As Outerbridge conducts Georges therapy, he gradually discovers the truth about Georges traumatic childhood, his twisted romance with an older woman named Anna, and the unusual obsession George keeps hidden from the world. With the masterful touch that earned him the Hugo and Nebula awards, Theodore Sturgeon creates a character of both unsettling violence and irresistible humanity, eliciting both horror and sympathy.

About Theodore Sturgeon

Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985) is considered one of the godfathers of contemporary science fiction and dark fantasy. The author of numerous acclaimed short stories and novels, among them the classics More Than Human, Venus Plus X, and To Marry Medusa, Sturgeon also wrote for television and holds among his credits two episodes of the original 1960s Star Trek series, for which he created the Vulcan mating ritual and the expression "Live long and prosper." He is also credited as the inspiration for Kurt Vonnegut's recurring fictional character Kilgore Trout.

Sturgeon is the recipient of the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the International Fantasy Award. In 2000, he was posthumously honored with a World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement.

Reviews

Goodreads review by aPriL does feral sometimes on August 19, 2020

'Some of Your Blood' by Theodore Sturgeon is a VERY disturbing book. A backwoods, undereducated kid is raised in a miserable, shabby home with a mean drunk of a father and an abused, arthritic mother. Life is hellish, but it's all George Smith (not his real name) knows. There are days with no food o......more

Goodreads review by Laurie (barksbooks) on February 16, 2018

This is an older short story that GR says was first published in 1956. Admittedly, I haven’t read much in the way of classic horror and I wasn’t sure the story would work for me. I guess I was expecting it to be dry and slow. What I found instead was a deeply disturbing story with many images that w......more

Goodreads review by Wayne on October 21, 2016

Big George didn't have fangs, nor did he sleep in a coffin. But big George did like to drink blood. It is discovered by an Army psychiatrist that this soldier has some serious issues and that he has a deadly past. George had an abusive, drunken father and developed an unnatural taste for blood from......more