Saturday, April 15, 2023

Seven books to up your vampire expertise

Jacqueline Holland is a recent graduate of the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Kansas. Her short fiction has been published in Hotel Amerika, Flash Fiction Magazine, and Big Fiction Magazine. She was selected as a top-twenty-five finalist for Glimmer Train's Short Story Award for New Writers, as well as Sequestrum Magazine's New Writers Award.

Her new novel is The God of Endings.

At Publishers Weekly Holland tagged seven books to expand your vampire horizons, including:
'Salem's Lot by Stephen King

How could anyone read Bram Stoker’s Dracula and not wonder, what if the count’s sinister plan to invade London and populate it with vampires had actually worked out? Or what if he picked up his operation and moved it somewhere more discreet, like, say, to a rural New England town already wasted away to nearly nothing? This is just the scenario King plays out in his second, and purportedly favorite, published novel. The thing I love about 'Salem's Lot is the way King uses a roving point of view and a playful temporal structure to make the town itself a character every bit as compelling as the nefarious invader bent on its destruction.
Read about the other entries on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue