The Lesser Dead, Christopher Buehlman
The Lesser Dead, Christopher Buehlman
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The Lesser Dead

Author: Christopher Buehlman

Narrator: Christopher Buehlman

Unabridged: 9 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/07/2014


Synopsis

"As much F. Scott Fitzgerald as Dean Koontz" (#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Briggs), Christopher Buehlman excels in twisting the familiar into newfound dread in his genre-bending novels. Now the acclaimed author of Those across the River delivers his most disquieting tale yet.The secret is, vampires are real and I am one. The secret is, I'm stealing from you what is most truly yours and I'm not sorry…New York City in 1978 is a dirty, dangerous place to live—and die. Joey Peacock knows this as well as anybody—he has spent the last forty years as an adolescent vampire, perfecting the routine he now enjoys: womanizing in punk clubs and discotheques, feeding by night, and sleeping by day with others of his kind in the macabre labyrinth under the city's sidewalks.The subways are his playground and his highway, shuttling him throughout Manhattan to bleed the unsuspecting in the Sheep Meadow of Central Park or in the backseats of Checker cabs, or even those in their own apartments who are too hypnotized by sitcoms to notice him opening their windows. It's almost too easy.Until one night he sees them hunting on his beloved subway. The children with the merry eyes. Vampires, like him … or not like him. Whatever they are, whatever their appearance means, the undead in the tunnels of Manhattan are not as safe as they once were.And neither are the rest of us.

About Christopher Buehlman

Christopher Buehlman is a writer and performer from St. Petersburg, Florida. The winner of the 2007 Bridport Prize for poetry, he is also the author of several plays, the historical fantasy novel Between Two Fires, and the acclaimed horror novel Those Across the River


Reviews

Goodreads review by Debra on January 17, 2022

The secret is, vampires are real and I am one. The secret is, I’m stealing from you what is most truly yours and I’m not sorry Talk about getting sucked in (pun intended) by a book! The narrator of this book tells us that he is an unreliable narrator at the very beginning. He is a fourteen-year-ol......more

Goodreads review by Misty Marie on January 18, 2022

We are in New York, 1978 where it is a dirty, dangerous place to live. Told through the eyes of Joey Peacock, who has spent the last forty years as a teenage vampire. Sleeping with his clan in the subway tunnels during the days and hitting up the discotheques at night, we follow Joey in his daily li......more

Goodreads review by Graeme on November 06, 2020

Corporate Takeover Scandal! Vampire Hunting Grounds Up For Grabs!: "Well, what the frack - they were just kids! Who knew what they could do?" - Subterranean Sentinel. Trust no one. Did I say trust no one? Yes - absolutely - trust no one! Especially bitie little kids with a voracious thirst. Very well wr......more

Goodreads review by Sadie on January 13, 2022

(Death to rating books on a scale of 1-5. This is not a five star read. It gets ALL THE STARS) The Lesser Dead by Christopher Buehlman This book was released in October of 2015. Where the fuck was I? Who are the lucky readers who picked this up and read it when it first came out? I’m jealous. Seven yea......more

Goodreads review by Overhaul on April 29, 2023

Nueva York, 1978. La gran manzana se ha convertido en un lugar demasiado sucio y peligroso para vivir… y morir. Joey Peacock lo sabe mejor que nadie, pues ha dedicado los cuarenta años de su vida como vampiro adolescente a perfeccionar la rutina de la que disfruta: ligar en clubes y discotecas de mod......more


Quotes

“Buehlman offers up a colony of fierce, brazenly unscrupulous vampires who reclaim the genre from angsty goths and return it to its fearsome and ferocious origins.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“The details of a dirtier, graffiti-splattered New York are vivid…Readers won’t be able to put the book down.” Library Journal


Awards

  • RUSA Reading List
  • Shirley Jackson Award