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Click for full imageBook Wench Comments: Couldn’t you wait until I was, like, fully centred before you took my picture? (Yes it’s about a belligerent teenage vampire.)
Published 1980
(Average: 8.49 out of 10)
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Book Wench Comments: Couldn’t you wait until I was, like, fully centred before you took my picture? (Yes it’s about a belligerent teenage vampire.)
Published 1980
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May 29th, 2015 at 12:39 pm
WTF, indeed.
May 29th, 2015 at 1:37 pm
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May 29th, 2015 at 2:33 pm
I am glad that the cover spells out that this is fantasy and not, for instance, historical fiction.
May 29th, 2015 at 2:48 pm
@Tom: plenty of folk at my school thought H. P. Lovecraft wrote historical fiction. 🙁
The background shows this is set in Derbyshire. Appropriate, as everything on the cover SUCKS.
May 29th, 2015 at 3:11 pm
Aww, I think he’s cute.
May 29th, 2015 at 3:14 pm
This guy’s cute as well.
http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/t0/t3759.jpg
May 29th, 2015 at 4:04 pm
I would have guessed Keynesian Economics instead of Fantasy.
May 29th, 2015 at 4:24 pm
I wonder about that subtitle: “A novel of fantasy” suggests that rather than being fantasy per se it’s about fantasy. Maybe this is a fearless expose of what David Eddings got up to on signing tours.
May 29th, 2015 at 6:07 pm
Why does he wear a bottu, anyway? Is he a South Asian sulky vampire teen?
May 29th, 2015 at 8:39 pm
FOR THE GLORY OF THE GAME
A Story Of Fantasy
By Sep Blatter
May 29th, 2015 at 10:26 pm
WTF . . . if that’s a vampire, I’m the Queen of England. That is an extremely poorly rendered human-bat hybrid with the head of Dracula.
May 30th, 2015 at 2:54 am
*starts humming Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights”*
May 30th, 2015 at 8:40 am
Did the vampire fly too close to a bunch of seaweed…???
May 30th, 2015 at 8:41 am
The cover that says “Go away. I despise you.”
May 30th, 2015 at 9:04 am
His upper body is at least obviously vampiric – pale skinned, fanged bat-human hybrid. The bottom half however clearly has a bumblebee origin.
May 30th, 2015 at 10:43 am
It looks like a rewrite of The Fly with a Hindu vampire as the protagonist.
That’s fairly novel, all right.
May 30th, 2015 at 12:22 pm
Yes, it’s supposed to be a foreshortened wing. But it looks like a horrid, over-grown ear.
May 30th, 2015 at 1:46 pm
@anon “help me!”
May 30th, 2015 at 4:17 pm
What if you could fly wherever you liked, whenever you wanted, at jet-air speeds…but this fellow had to stay within earshot the whole time?
‘Boston, huh? Cool. I want to go to Boston. Do you know what the Salem witch trials were? That was SO COOL. I’ve been reading a whole big book about witches. Do you know, witches would dance around out-doors TOTALLY NAKED? That is SO cool. I would pay, like, all the money I have just to see that…’
June 3rd, 2015 at 12:21 am
I have no legs and I must…sulk?
August 13th, 2015 at 8:19 pm
Bela Lugosi’s dud.
May 22nd, 2017 at 2:10 am
He looks like the kind of fellow who would snarl himself all up in ladies’ hairdos and then blame his ‘radar’.
October 2nd, 2020 at 6:08 pm
“Ever wonder how bats poop on the wing? Well, get ready cuz I’m gonna show you!”
October 2nd, 2020 at 7:34 pm
He needs a theme song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu8WP-Se90w&list=PL89Sygaj3zlF_aS6Eo7YwfnqGHsVpXxDy&index=12
October 2nd, 2020 at 11:06 pm
He’s partaking of the patience of everyone who has to put up with him.
I’m hoping this was self-published and R. C-H (such a British name!) didn’t hornswoggle some publisher out of cash.
(googles)
No such luck.
Although it appears that the publisher didn’t have much cash judging by the hiring of this UAI grad.
I daresay this cover was discreetly ignored before they gave him the Stoker
award.
@fred: Speaking of that, there’s a new-ish brand of fizzy water yclept AHA, so one guess as to what song I end up humming as I make my way through the supermarket. (It’s from Coca-Cola, so it has prominent placement everywhere)
October 2nd, 2020 at 11:49 pm
RCH was a prolific writer of horror who is possibly the only horror writer to be played by a horror star, as John Carradine was “him” in The Monster Club (based on his stories).
October 3rd, 2020 at 4:22 pm
To me, it looks like he’s grumpy because he hasn’t gotten the hang of it yet and keeps flying backward.
October 3rd, 2020 at 8:46 pm
“I’m still working on transformations, ok? Stop laughing!”
Really, it’s not as bad as the time he took off his clothes to turn into a wolf and only succeeded from the waist up.
Why the emphasis on fantasy? Maybe they thought it would sell better marketed as fantasy rather than horror? Or maybe it’s vampires AND elves and witches and unicorns.