Vampire Junction

Timmy Valentine, teen rock star and secret vampire, tries to come to terms with the feelings of guilt and compassion he has for his victims Review "the closest thing to a nightmare ever put on paper!" -- Robert Bloch From the Publisher Now acknowledged as one of the most important classics of twentieth-century gothic literarture, S.P. Somtow's tale of a twelve-year-old rock star vampire, his Jungian analyst, and the Wagnerian conductor who is his nemesis turned the entire genre upside down in the 1980s and is considered the ancestor of the "splatterpunk" movement. An unforgettable classic of high-intensity horror. From the Author ... the first edition is now for sale at ridiculous prices so it is great to have this lovely edition back ... currently, French composer Frederic Chaslin is turning this book into an opera...

Welcome to Timmy Valentine's world.

Valentine is a pop star, the idol of millions of young girls and boys. His voice would make the angels weep; his eyes hold you in thrall.

Timmy appears to be about eleven years old. He is actually over two thousand. Timmy Valentine is a vampire, and though our modern skeptic age refuses to believe, Timmy has come to realize that he is in danger as never before.

Too many people have seen him. Photos and recordings survive as paintings and sculptures never could. Soon, someone will realize that Timmy Valentine has never grown up.

Theodore Sturgeon

Terrible things happen in this book -- murder, torture, rape, abandonment...it's about rock music, about mass hysteria, about vampires, about horror...one comes out knowing, and caring about a panoply of new acquaintances, living and dead, and unalive. -- The Washington Post

Now acknowledged as one of the most important classics of twentieth-century gothic literarture, S.P. Somtow's tale of a twelve-year-old rock star vampire, his Jungian analyst, and the Wagnerian conductor who is his nemesis turned the entire genre upside down in the 1980s and is considered the ancestor of the "splatterpunk" movement. Vampire Junction has been voted one of the top forty horror books of all time