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An acclaimed novelist and former 60 Minutes producer grandly reinvents the Dracula epic in the halls of a certain television newsmagazine
Penguin
January 2007
On Sale: January 11, 2007
400 pages
ISBN: 159420117X
EAN: 9781594201172
Hardcover
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Horror | Fiction
In the annals of business trips gone horribly wrong,
Evangeline Harker's journey to Romania on behalf of her
employer, the popular television newsmagazine The Hour,
deserves pride of place. Sent to Transylvania to scout out a
possible story on a notorious Eastern European crime boss
named Ion Torgu, she has found the true nature of Torgu's
activities to be far more monstrous than anything her young
journalist's mind could have imagined. The fact that her
employer clearly won't get the segment it was hoping for is
soon the very least of her concerns. Back in New York, Evangeline's disappearance causes an
uproar at the office and a wave of guilt and recrimination.
Then suddenly, several months later, she's heard from:
miraculously, she's convalescing in a Transylvania
monastery, her memory seemingly scrubbed. But then who was
sending e-mails through her account to The Hour employees?
And what are those great coffin-like boxes of objects
delivered to the office in her name from the Old Country?
And why does the show's sound system appear to be infected
with some strange virus, an aural bug that coats all
recordings in a faint background hiss that sounds like the
chanting of...place-names? And what about the rumors that a
correspondent has scored an interview with Torgu, here in
New York, after all? As a very dark Old World atmosphere
deepens in the halls of one of America's most trusted
television programs, its employees are forced to confront a
threat beyond their wildest imaginings, a threat that makes
gossip about an impending corporate shakeup seem very quaint
indeed. Written in the form of diary entries, e-mails, therapy
journals, and other artifacts of early-twenty-first-century
American professional-class life, compiled as an informal
inquest by a very interested party, Fangland manages both to
be a genuinely-in fact triumphantly-frightening vampire
novel in the grand tradition and a, yes, biting commentary
on the way we live and work now.
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