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The Falstaff Vampire Files

The Falstaff Vampire Files, September 2011
by Lynne Murray

Pearlsong Press
Featuring: Kristin Marlowe; Hal
280 pages
ISBN: 1597190381
EAN: 9781597190381
Kindle: B005HVU4EY
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"Can you really take Shakespeare and Stoker to create something original? This book does!"

Fresh Fiction Review

The Falstaff Vampire Files
Lynne Murray

Reviewed by Vicky Gilpin
Posted October 10, 2011

Fantasy | Paranormal - Supernatural

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 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 vampire mythos. As for the plot, two plot threads develop, one about a man whose family cares for Shakespeare's Falstaff, a vampire, and another that follows the Dracula strain for a while (complete with a Mina, Lucy, Harker, and Van Helsing). After they merge more completely, all sorts of new information develops about how vampires transition to their new un-lives and what even vampires fear. HYSTERICAL and a fast read, THE FALSTAFF VAMPIRE FILES is worth devouring!

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SUMMARY

Skeptical psychologist Kristin Marlowe goes to the house of her cheating lover, Hal, to retrieve an irreplaceable object he's stolen. Instead she makes an unexpected discovery in the shed behind the house. Kristin has to suspend her disbelief and fight for her life against a horde of deadly creatures that prey upon vampires and humans alike. Kristin's allies know as little as she does how to fight these creatures. Her fragile client, Mina, her vampire-romance-writing landlady, Violet and Bram Van Helsing an expert on vampire cults who has never met a real live vampire join her in seeking help from Sir John Falstaff, veteran vampire, con man and unrepentant scoundrel, a man who never lets being undead get in the way of having a good time.


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