Overview
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 the1980s and is considered the ancestor of the "splatterpunk" movement.
Vampire Junction has been voted one of the top forty horror books of all time. Timmy Valentine: "He'll steal your heart - and have it for breakfast!"
21st anniversary edition of this unforgettable classic of high-intensity horror.
". . . It's about rock music, about mass hysteria, about vampires, about horror . . . one comes out knowing, and caring, about a panoply of new friends and acquaintances, living and dead, and unalive."--Theodore Sturgeon, The Washington Post.
Synopsis
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