Thinking they have put their monster-hunting days behind them, Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker return to their normal lives. But when their old ally Robert Roosevelt and his nephew Teddy find a new nest of vampires, they are once again pulled into the world of the supernatural, this time in the American West. A train robbery by a band of vampire gunslingers sets off a series of events that puts Bram on the run, Oscar leading a rescue party and our heroes being pursued by an unstoppable vampire bounty hunter who rides a dead, reanimated horse.
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This collection pertains mostly to the California Incident of 1882. WHITE WORM SOCIETY ARCHIVIST NOTE
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(@flametreepress, 23 July 2020, 288 pages, ebook, copy from the publisher via # NetGalley and voluntarily reviewed, #BlogTour 12 August via @RandomTTours)
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I thought this sounded like a fun, inventive read. I was right. The book uses a structure I've not come across in ages and is made up of a series of letters, memos and journal entries narrated by the book's large cast of characters. This works really well, bouncing back and forth between different POV's and different incidents while gradually learning what links it all together. This is unlike anything I've read before part historical fiction, part horror and part western. I loved all of the well-known characters such as Bram Stoker and Oscar Wilde. I got swept into this book and didn't want to put it down because I was having such a blast.
