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Lost Souls is a vampire novel but it's not like any others I've read. Poppy Z. Brite's vampires are born, a separate species than humans but they do feed on humans. It is the story of Steve and Ghost, two human boys with a band called Lost Souls? and a group of vampires: Nothing, Zillah, Twigs and Molochai, and Christian. The boys live in a fictional town called Missing Mile, NC and the vampires blow into town and nothing is ever the same.
I think I found this one refreshing even when I read it years ago because the vampires were monsters, true monsters in every sense of the word yet I still felt for Christian, the eldest of the crew and the one who actually had sympathy for humans.
There are several short stories featuring these characters and another novel Drawing Blood that they appear in though it is not a true sequel. I think the real sequel was never finished. If you like dark, gothy things, give this one a try.
Poppy Z. Brite wrote several horror novels, then a few darkly humorous foodie novels and is now retired and living in New Orleans. Poppy is now Billy Martin and is a craftsman and fiction editor in his hometown. He makes wonderful little homemade blank books which you can find on Ebay.
I think I found this one refreshing even when I read it years ago because the vampires were monsters, true monsters in every sense of the word yet I still felt for Christian, the eldest of the crew and the one who actually had sympathy for humans.
There are several short stories featuring these characters and another novel Drawing Blood that they appear in though it is not a true sequel. I think the real sequel was never finished. If you like dark, gothy things, give this one a try.
Poppy Z. Brite wrote several horror novels, then a few darkly humorous foodie novels and is now retired and living in New Orleans. Poppy is now Billy Martin and is a craftsman and fiction editor in his hometown. He makes wonderful little homemade blank books which you can find on Ebay.