The Falstaff Vampire Files
(2011)(The first book in the Falstaff Vampire series)
A novel by Lynne Murray
Psychologist Kris Marlow doesn't believe in vampires -- until a silver-tongued rogue rises out of a coffin at dusk, introduces himself as Sir John Falstaff, and hypnotizes her into letting him taste her blood.
Kris's best friend Vi, who writes vampire romances, jumps at the chance to interview a real vampire. Fellow psychologist and paranormal cult expert Bram von Helsing also would love to meet an actual vampire. Kris remains skeptical, thinking she's just encountered one of San Francisco's many sanity-challenged individuals.
Then in an attack of spine-tingling horror a horde of murderous monsters descend on the San Francisco neighborhood. Faced with creatures that kill with a single glance, Kris and everyone she cares about must fight for their lives. But how?
In this dark fantasy with urban paranormal attitude, the only chance of survival for Kris and her friends is to seek help from the biggest bad boy in tavern-haunting history, who once drank ale and now drinks only blood - Sir John Falstaff, undead and misbehaving in San Francisco.
"Murray (Bride of the Living Dead) combines rich storytelling with humor to spin a fun, exciting tale." (Library Journal)
"Can you really take Shakespeare and Stoker and create something original? This book does! Although novices to the vampire and vampiric parody fields will find the work a laugh-a-minute, people who have some familiarity with Dracula and the works of Shakespeare will find this even more wonderful. Written in Dracula's journal style, but updated, the work name-drops like no one's business, is clever and punny, as well as extremely aware of the meta nature of vampiric literature. In addition, it adds new elements to the vampiric mythos." (Fresh Fiction)
"There's ample fun to be found in The Falstaff Vampire Files, which posits a cozy alliance of San Francisco humans and vampires against a far more evil force which equally terrifies them both. Lynne Murray's subtle, generous sense of humor and deft characterization skills result in a cast readers will feel happy having spent time with, particularly the vampire of the title, a refugee from Shakespearean times who turns out, in his own unkempt and boisterous way, to be every lonely single woman's fondest dream." (Andrew Fox, author of Fat White Vampire Blues, Bride of the Fat White Vampire, & The Good Humor Man: Or, Calorie 3501)
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Kris's best friend Vi, who writes vampire romances, jumps at the chance to interview a real vampire. Fellow psychologist and paranormal cult expert Bram von Helsing also would love to meet an actual vampire. Kris remains skeptical, thinking she's just encountered one of San Francisco's many sanity-challenged individuals.
Then in an attack of spine-tingling horror a horde of murderous monsters descend on the San Francisco neighborhood. Faced with creatures that kill with a single glance, Kris and everyone she cares about must fight for their lives. But how?
In this dark fantasy with urban paranormal attitude, the only chance of survival for Kris and her friends is to seek help from the biggest bad boy in tavern-haunting history, who once drank ale and now drinks only blood - Sir John Falstaff, undead and misbehaving in San Francisco.
"Murray (Bride of the Living Dead) combines rich storytelling with humor to spin a fun, exciting tale." (Library Journal)
"Can you really take Shakespeare and Stoker and create something original? This book does! Although novices to the vampire and vampiric parody fields will find the work a laugh-a-minute, people who have some familiarity with Dracula and the works of Shakespeare will find this even more wonderful. Written in Dracula's journal style, but updated, the work name-drops like no one's business, is clever and punny, as well as extremely aware of the meta nature of vampiric literature. In addition, it adds new elements to the vampiric mythos." (Fresh Fiction)
"There's ample fun to be found in The Falstaff Vampire Files, which posits a cozy alliance of San Francisco humans and vampires against a far more evil force which equally terrifies them both. Lynne Murray's subtle, generous sense of humor and deft characterization skills result in a cast readers will feel happy having spent time with, particularly the vampire of the title, a refugee from Shakespearean times who turns out, in his own unkempt and boisterous way, to be every lonely single woman's fondest dream." (Andrew Fox, author of Fat White Vampire Blues, Bride of the Fat White Vampire, & The Good Humor Man: Or, Calorie 3501)
Genre: Urban Fantasy
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