In the years since, it has acquired an intensely.
Like its predecessors 'Baal,' 'Bethanys Sin,' and 'The Night Boat' 'They Thirst' made its initial appearance as a paperback original.
As readable today as when first published, this savage yet elegant shock show succeeds as crowd-pleasing storytelling as well as a time capsule of the 1980s horror aesthetic. First published in 1981, 'They Thirst' was Robert McCammons fourth novel, and it remains one of the major milestones of an ambitious, constantly evolving career. Pathos and tragedy reverberate beneath bawdy sexual tension and violence in a seamless fictional cocktail for genre devotees. Personal culpability and domestic tensions are juxtaposed with Old Testament morality, anchored by minute detail and sensuous atmosphere. It has a little of everything in it, from serial killers and spooky old castles to demonic forces, ghosts and magic. His plan of action To transform all of L.A. Master vampire Prince Vulkan has established his base of operations in Kronsteen Castle, the former home of a murdered movie star. I have read it three times and it is one of the best vampire novels that I have ever had the pleasure of reading. They Thirst transplants the macabre trappings of Hammer Films Horror of Dracula from Eastern Europe to the City of Angels. Palatazin are irrevocably interwoven with the mentally disturbed Walter Benefield and an army of soul-damaged Outsiders. They Thirst is 531 pages long and it is a dark and very well-written story.
When coffins are robbed at Hollywood Memorial, the fates of reporter Gayle Clarke, photographer Jack Kidd, and Det. homicide detective Andy Palatazin’s search for “The Roach,” a serial killer, entangles him in a plague of folklore-inspired supernaturalism that mirrors-and lends a more palatable face to-the human sleaze and nihilism upon which it feeds. Apocalyptic catastrophe collides with deeply intimate fears in this hardcover incarnation of McCammon’s 1981 paperback horror novel.
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