
Vampire$
Author: John Steakley
Narrator: Tom Weiner
Unabridged: 9 hr 53 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 02/22/2010

Author: John Steakley
Narrator: Tom Weiner
Unabridged: 9 hr 53 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 02/22/2010
John Steakley has written four short stories, three films, and two novels, including Vampires, which was the basis for a John Carpenter film. Besides being a writer, he has been a stock-car racer, a semi-pro football player, a private detective, an actor, and a car salesman. He lives in McKinney, Texas.
The visceral no-nonsense writing on display here might not appeal to literary snobs or self-appointed connoisseurs of horror haute cuisine, but it certainly gets the job done. Encounters with the Vampires of the title are heart-stopping affairs. They are feisty fiends: fast, inhumanly strong and ver......more
Seriously. This is my all time favorite book. I've had to buy it three times because I read it over and over and eventually the binding wears out and the pages fall out. It's not a great literary find. It is not going to change the world. It's about vampire hunters. But I loved every character, I lov......more
Shit. This is actually kind of a masterpiece. Vampire$ and Armor are really two sides of the same coin. Most of the themes are the same and, despite being different genres, the books cover a lot of the same ground. While Amor, in some ways is more direct and powerful, Vampire$ is a stronger narrativ......more
My first take here is to say...This is a great idea, maybe someday someone will write a book about it. Of course, Monster Hunter International is already out there. I've said a couple of things I'm going to say here before, about other books. This one makes me sad. As I've said before, I really wante......more
If you aren’t convinced that nominative determinism is real, I present to you a Vampire novel written by a man who surname is… Steakley. It almost seems too perfect - if there is anything a novel about supernatural bloodsuckers needs it is stakes (and bloody steaks) in abundance. You may have heard o......more