Fangland
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| Author(s) | John Marks |
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| Subtitle | A Novel |
| Publisher | Penguin Books |
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| An acclaimed novelist and former 60 Minutes producer grandly reinvents the Dracula epic in the halls of a certain television news magazine. Written in the form of diary entries, e-mails, therapy journals, and other artifacts of early-twenty-first-century American professional-class life, Fangland manages both to be a genuinely—in fact, triumphantly—frightening vampire novel in the grand tradition and a, yes, biting commentary on the way we live and work now. | |
As the popularity of Elizabeth Kostovas bestselling The Historian proves, theres always an audience bloodthirsty for quality, page-turning horror. Now, in a marvelously horrifying turn, John Marks—a former 60 Minutes producer—sinks his satirical teeth into twenty-first-century media.
In Fangland, Evangeline Harker is an employee of the legendary TV news magazine The Hour. Sent on assignment to Transylvania, she delivers more than a story when mysterious e-mails, coffins, and a creepy guy named Torgu descend on the New York office. This darkly funny tale will appeal to vampire and horror aficionados as well as anyone who’s fed up with what passes for news today.
