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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780843958072
ISBN number: 0843958073
Label: Leisure Books
Manufacturer: Leisure Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 340
Printing Date: August 26, 2008
Publishing house: Leisure Books
Sale Popularity Level: 51960
Studio: Leisure Books
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Internationally published horror novelist Edward Lee unleashes his 37th book and his very very first vampire novel! When a new couple moves into a New York brownstone, they find their ultimate dream house...until they go into the basement. Suddenly, a macabre nun is seen lurking about, with an entourage of lewd and gibbering homeless women who seem to KNOW what evil secret lurks in the bowels of the old house. As the couples' dreams turn to lust-stained nightmares, and the bodies of missing persons are found impaled, the basement's secret is revealed at last: the remnants of Dracula himself...
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A completely mediocre novel with rather mediocre sex scenes and a predictable plot. The very first Edward Lee novel I read (Flesh Gothic) was a edgy but interesting read. Since then, I have become increasingly disillusioned with each work I buy. This is no exception. At this point, both the violence and the sex in these books seem gratiuitious, leaving nothing but a moderate undercurrent of sacrilege.
Not worth the money even if you're bored: I picked this up at the PX on base, and I am now realising I should have just picked up whatever John Saul's latest regurgitation is.
I rated this book two stars because there is no 1.5-star option, but honestly, two stars is something of a stretch. I didn't hate it, I just didn't care at all.
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I liked the book, It has a good story line and is fun to read.
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Edward Lee's very first vampire novel is a gory, erotic, mystery-stuffed ton of fun and pumps new "blood" into all things Draculean. I liked it even more than House Infernal which was great too. This is a must read for all horror fans!
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I've been reading a lot of Leisure Fiction's horror novels this year, and even before I read a page of Edward Lee's Brides of the Impaler, I had decided that, at the very least, it had the best title in the bunch. With the Impaler reference, it has to be a story about Dracula (a.k.a. Vlad the Impaler), it is also reminiscent of the old Hammer Films titles, particularly Brides of Dracula.
The horror allusions don't stop there, as Lee also names characters after Euro-horror cult figures Paul Naschy and Jess Franco among others and even has a Ketchum Hotel, an obvious nod to writer Jack Ketchum. So Lee pays his tribute to the genre, but is the book any good? My only other experience was the weakest story in the anthology Triage (with co-writers Ketchum and Richard Laymon); this was a more positive experience.
As the title hints, this is a Dracula story, though the character is off-stage for most of the novel, relegated to historical accounts by other characters. The villains are the title characters, an unappealing bunch of homeless women who are recruited by the mysterious New Mother to assist in a secret ritual. This ritual will involve, among other things, the brutal impaling of several people and the use of some ancient artifacts.
These artifacts are currently buried in the basement of the newly purchased home of Cristina Nichols and Paul Nasher. Paul is a loving fiance but otherwise a typical wealth-obsessed lawyer who wants the best of everything. Cristina is the designer of some morbid figurines that have become popular collectibles. Something in the house is affecting Cristina, giving her ideas for new figures and hypercharging her sex drive, but also giving her nightmares and putting her in trances.
Though the sex and violence is more than you would ever have seen in a Hammer Film, Brides of the Impaler does evoke memories of the studio's old Dracula films. But even you've never seen one of those movies, this is a nice read. Lee shows that you can write a good Dracula story without even much Dracula in it.
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I don't write reviews for books I hate. Usually. I'm writing this because I loved Flesh Gothic and The Messenger, and wondered what went wrong here?
There's nothing wrong with graphic sex scenes in Horror, as long as there's a point. Every three or four pages of this book had a meaningless sex scene. Not to give anything away, but even if a character is under some kind of possession that causes strange sexual behavior, it's still ridiculous to have twenty sex scenes in a book, unless the book is as huge as King's The Stand.
I hate to say it, but the other reviewer was right when stating that it read like a romance Horror novel. The premise of this book could have been taken to killer places; the Vlad the impaler aspect of vampirism is one, that if it had been written right, could have really been good.
I've heard Edward Lee's small press books are really good, and I still plan on checking those out, but I really hope his subsequent Leisure releases aren't anything like this.
I liked the cover art, but that was about it.
You're a way better writer than this, Ed.
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