Horror Novel The Truants Unleashes Brutal Vampires this Summer
This summer Lee Markham is embarking on a blog tour in support of his debut horror novel, The Truants, which The Overlook Press is releasing on July 25th. We’ll be taking part in the tour, but in the meantime, here’s a bit more info on the book itself, which contorts the conventional vampire narrative into a startling tale of immortality, blood lust, and rage contaminating London’s inner-city youth like a virus.
A fresh twist on the usual vampire fare, four-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author Jack Ketchum describes The Truants as “brutal and touching. Stripped of romance, paced like a crime novel… an extremely smart, talented first novel.”
Synopsis:
THE TRUANTS tells the story of the last of the old-ones―creatures afflicted with a condition not unlike vampirism: ancient, bloodthirsty, and unable to withstand sunlight.
The last old-one has decided to end his life, but before he can act, he is held up at knifepoint. His assailant disappears, the knife in his pocket, the blood of the old-one seared into its sharpened edge. The knife trades hands, drawing blood again, and the old-one is resurrected through his victims’ consciousness and divided, spreading through the infected. With his horde of infected youth, the old-one must reclaim the knife to regain control of his soul. But someone is out to stop him…
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