VERDILAK

Beware of the Verdilak curse. Once under it, loved ones rise from the dead and can only feed upon the ones they love! This startling vampire tale is based on "La Famille de la Vourdalak" by A.K. Tolstoi and is a macabre symphony that builds inevitably to a crashing and monstrous finale! Hampton and Kneece expand the story with interesting back story, change characters and actually answer one point that is glossed over in the original and the film – how did Gorka become infected with vampirism, having hunted down the bandit vampire, if vampires only feed on those they love. Assuming accidental infection or infection whilst the vampire defended itself. In this the mystery is solved in ways you might not expect. Vladimir Grandier inherits a distant castle where the family used to be. Tales his father told him about it had greatly frightened him as a child. As he goes to claim his inheritance, he feels they couldn't have been anything but old wives' tales, but the prospect of owning such a loathsome place chilled him deeply and filled him with contempt for his father who had always put him down as spineless. What he gets mired in upon arrival in the area will change him forever. Verdilakis horror fantasy made manifest with memorable art perfectly in tune with the suspenseful and horrific text. -- Midwest Book Review Out of Print. Condition: Fine. Slight rubbing on one corner.