Vampyrrhic Rites by multiple British Fantasy Award-winning author Simon Clark (ISFDB, Wikipedia) is the 2nd novel in his Vampyrrhic series of vampire horror thrillers set in North England, this installment a Yorkshire Moors-based one where a young man from a small village searches for a friend suddenly gone missing, only to find him terribly changed, free courtesy of publisher Endeavour Press' Venture imprint, who are e-printing it from 2003 edition originally out from Hodder & Stoughton.
ISFDB says this was a nominee for the BFA's August Derleth Award for Best Fantasy Novel back in the day.
Currently free @ Amazon (available to Canadians & in the UK and pretty much everywhere else that Amazon sells worldwide, since this is being done via their KDP Select exclusive-or-else program)
Description
Lazarus deep is a lake that sits like a blot of darkness in the valley.
Eighteen-year-old Dylan Adams is on the verge of leaving his hometown for a life in the big city, but his plans are dramatically changed when his old school friend Luke Spencer goes missing.
A search finds nothing. All anyone knows is that he was last seen at Lazarus Deep. Then, in the dead of night, Dylan's old friend comes calling.
But hes not the same boy that everyone once knew.
The strangest eyes, the lingering whispers messages sent through the night once more David Leppington, Bernice Mochardi and Electra Charnwood are drawn together to face the vampiric creatures that are Nosferatu: the undead.
The desolate North Yorkshire Moors have held their secret for more than a thousand years.
Now it is the turn of Lazarus Deep.
Vampyrrhic Rites is the follow-up to Simon Clarks ceaselessly terrifying novel Vampyrrhic. It is a chilling horror-thriller that brings the well-known terror of vampires to the hitherto unspoiled lands of Northern England.
ISFDB says this was a nominee for the BFA's August Derleth Award for Best Fantasy Novel back in the day.
Currently free @ Amazon (available to Canadians & in the UK and pretty much everywhere else that Amazon sells worldwide, since this is being done via their KDP Select exclusive-or-else program)
Description
Lazarus deep is a lake that sits like a blot of darkness in the valley.
Eighteen-year-old Dylan Adams is on the verge of leaving his hometown for a life in the big city, but his plans are dramatically changed when his old school friend Luke Spencer goes missing.
A search finds nothing. All anyone knows is that he was last seen at Lazarus Deep. Then, in the dead of night, Dylan's old friend comes calling.
But hes not the same boy that everyone once knew.
The strangest eyes, the lingering whispers messages sent through the night once more David Leppington, Bernice Mochardi and Electra Charnwood are drawn together to face the vampiric creatures that are Nosferatu: the undead.
The desolate North Yorkshire Moors have held their secret for more than a thousand years.
Now it is the turn of Lazarus Deep.
Vampyrrhic Rites is the follow-up to Simon Clarks ceaselessly terrifying novel Vampyrrhic. It is a chilling horror-thriller that brings the well-known terror of vampires to the hitherto unspoiled lands of Northern England.