Synopses & Reviews
As the popularity of Elizabeth Kostova's bestselling
The Historian proves, there's always an audience bloodthirsty for quality, page-turning horror. Now, in a marvelously horrifying turn, John Marks a former
60 Minutes producer sinks his satirical teeth into twenty-first-century media.
In Fangland, Evangeline Harker is an employee of the legendary TV news magazine The Hour. Sent on assignment to Transylvania, she delivers more than a story when mysterious e-mails, coffins, and a creepy guy named Torgu descend on the New York office. This darkly funny tale will appeal to vampire and horror aficionados, as well as anyone who's fed up with what passes for news today.
Review
"Marks' sense of place...and tone-setting emphasis on blood and bloodlines kick in early....A scary twenty-first-century take on the stuff of Dracula, worthy of its rightful place among others." Booklist
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"Marks has written an electrifying modern tale of horror that pays homage to Bram Stoker's Dracula. He goes much further, however, creating a hideous vampire more horrifying than anything that ever came from Stoker's imagination. Highly recommended." Library Journal
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"Half satire, half vampire novel, but completely ridiculous, Fangland has an absurdly complicated structure and goes on far too long to support the journalists-as-bloodsuckers joke." Joe Queenan, The New York Times Book Review
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"John Marks has written the best vampire novel since...Interview with the Vampire." The Buffalo News
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"A disappointment for horror fans; though Romania provides good, scary fun, the New York scenes are a mess." Kirkus Reviews
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"Fangland is the rare real thing: a novel about a monster that evokes all the sadness, brutality and hideous glamour of human depravity. It's about the abyss, and the big hole in Lower Manhattan, and the strange, dark, funny stuff in each of us. It'll grab you and not let go until it's done with you." Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife
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"In this extraordinary new thriller of a bloodsucker novel, John Marks has crafted a horror story that rivals its most noted forebear: Bram Stoker's Dracula....The trick still works; the intertwined first-person narratives lend the book a documentary feel that heightens tension as it increases the believability of a fantastical plot." Jessica Bennett, Rain Taxi (read the entire Rain Taxi review)
Synopsis
An acclaimed novelist and former producer for CBS's 60 Minutes reinvents the Dracula epic in the halls of a certain television newsmagazine. Written in the form of diary entries, e-mails, therapy journals, and other artifacts of early 21st-century American professional-class life, this vampire novel is a biting commentary on the way we live and work now.
Synopsis
As the popularity of Elizabeth Kostova's bestselling
The Historian proves, there's always an audience bloodthirsty for quality, page-turning horror. Now, in a marvelously horrifying turn, John Marks-a former
60 Minutes producer-sinks his satirical teeth into twenty-first- century media. In
Fangland, Evangeline Harker is an employee of the legendary TV news magazine
The Hour. Sent on assignment to Transylvania, she delivers more than a story when mysterious e-mails, coffins, and a creepy guy named Torgu descend on the New York office. This darkly funny tale will appeal to vampire and horror aficionados as well as anyone who's fed up with what passes for "news" today.
About the Author
John Marks is the critically acclaimed novelist of The Wall, a New York Times Notable Book, and War Torn.