The Lesser Dead
The Lesser Dead by Christopher Buehlman is a chilling horror novel published by Penguin Publishing Group on October 6, 2015. This reprint edition spans 368 pages and is presented in English. Set in New York City during 1978, the story follows Joey Peacock, an adolescent vampire who navigates a gritty urban landscape filled with danger and intrigue. As he indulges in a life of womanizing and nocturnal feeding, Joey’s existence takes a dark turn when he encounters other vampires in the subway tunnels, challenging his understanding of his kind.
Readers will find a vivid exploration of vampire mythology intertwined with elements of dark fantasy and horror. Joey’s adventures through the city’s underground labyrinth reveal a world where the familiar becomes perilous, and the boundaries of safety blur. The narrative delves into themes of survival and the complexities of vampire existence, as Joey grapples with the emergence of new threats in his territory. This edition invites readers to experience a unique blend of fiction that captures the essence of urban horror and the supernatural.
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Christopher Buehlman’s Those Across the River delivered “an unsettling brew of growing menace spiked with flashes of genuine terror.”* Now, the World Fantasy Award-nominated author stakes a bloody claim on vampire mythology in this chilling horror novel….
New York City in 1978 is a dirty, dangerous place to live. And die. Joey Peacock knows this as well as anybody—he’s spent the last forty years as an adolescent vampire, perfecting the routine he now enjoys: womanizing in punk clubs and discotheques, feeding by night, and sleeping by day with others of his kind in the macabre labyrinth under the city’s sidewalks.
The subways are his playground and his highway, shuttling him throughout Manhattan to bleed the unsuspecting in the Sheep Meadow of Central Park or in the backseats of Checker cabs, or even those in their own apartments who are too hypnotized by sitcoms to notice him opening their windows. It’s almost too easy.
Until one night he sees them hunting on his beloved subway. The children with the merry eyes. Vampires, like him…or not like him. Whatever they are, whatever their appearance means, the undead in the tunnels of Manhattan are not as safe as they once were.
And neither are the rest of us.
WINNER OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION’S BEST HORROR NOVEL OF THE YEAR
*New York Times bestselling author F. Paul Wilson
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