"This one starts out big...far out, fresh, and gripping." (Kirkus)
Vampires have always lived in Eastern Europe. But with the fall of the Soviet Union, they began to spread across the continent, then the world, turning whole populations into vampires--or human cattle. Having overrun India, the far East, and the great cities of North and South America, the forces of Night are now spreading into the United States to consolidate their conquest.
In a town on the New Jersey shore, the vampires have just arrived, along with their human henchmen, the cowboys, who round up human cattle for the overlords in return for the promise of eternal life--later. For the vampires wish only a few of their own kind to rule, and feed. The rest of humanity are to be helpless herds, the source of the blood of life.
MIDNIGHT MASS was born out of my dissatisfaction with the tortured romantic aesthetes who have been passing lately for vampires. I wanted to get back to roots--go retro, if you will--and write about the soulless, merciless, parasitic creatures we all knew and loved. (F. Paul Wilson, from his Author's Note)
"In Wilson's creepy, terrifying thriller, vampires are rapidly taking over the planet...Wilson makes his vampires truly frightening. The undead might have every advantage, but the likable, compelling mortals in this gripping read aren't giving up easily." (Booklist)
Vampires have always lived in Eastern Europe. But with the fall of the Soviet Union, they began to spread across the continent, then the world, turning whole populations into vampires--or human cattle. Having overrun India, the far East, and the great cities of North and South America, the forces of Night are now spreading into the United States to consolidate their conquest.
In a town on the New Jersey shore, the vampires have just arrived, along with their human henchmen, the cowboys, who round up human cattle for the overlords in return for the promise of eternal life--later. For the vampires wish only a few of their own kind to rule, and feed. The rest of humanity are to be helpless herds, the source of the blood of life.
MIDNIGHT MASS was born out of my dissatisfaction with the tortured romantic aesthetes who have been passing lately for vampires. I wanted to get back to roots--go retro, if you will--and write about the soulless, merciless, parasitic creatures we all knew and loved. (F. Paul Wilson, from his Author's Note)
"In Wilson's creepy, terrifying thriller, vampires are rapidly taking over the planet...Wilson makes his vampires truly frightening. The undead might have every advantage, but the likable, compelling mortals in this gripping read aren't giving up easily." (Booklist)
