The Oldest Living Vampire Tells All - Softcover

Redux, Rod

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1460902203 ISBN 13: 9781460902202

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011

Synopsis

“My legal name where I currently reside in the city of Liege, Belgium, in the year 2010 A.D., is Gaspar Valessi, but that is not my real name. The name I was given some 30,000 years ago, when I was born in a Paleolithic settlement in the region that is now called Germany-- the name my father gave me shortly after I was voided, bloody and howling, from my mother's womb-- is Gon.” So begins the saga of the immortal Gon, a 30,000 year old vampire. This, the first volume of his memoirs, recounts his human life in prehistoric Germany alongside his companion Brulde and his two wives Eyya and Nyala, and details the fearsome events that lead to his transformation from man to undying monster. A blend of historic fact, fearsome fantasy and sensuality, author Rod Redux pushes the boundaries of fantasy and horror, creating a world that is both mysterious and eerily similar to our own in its depictions of the human-- and inhuman-- condition. Gon, a compassionate yet bloodthirsty monster, asks only to share his life with us, to be our guide through the millennia.

About this title

About the Author

Author Joseph Duncan was born and raised in Southern Illinois. He spent his idyllic childhood running wild through the wooded highlands of the beautiful Illinois Ozarks, a veritable “lost boy”... a hillbilly heathen, if you will. Despite his rural upbringing, Joe’s home environment was very creative and liberal. His mother was an avid reader and his father was a talented amateur artist. From an early age, he was exposed to a vast world of science fiction and fantasy literature, art, comic books and movies. He was particularly influenced by the classic underground comic book scene of the sixties and seventies, titles like the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and the works of Robert Crumb and Richard Corben, as well as European graphic albums by artists like Moebius, Enki Bilal and Milo Manara. By age 9, he was reading Tolkien and Stephen King. He wrote his first novella at age 10, a story called “Scratch”, which featured a telekinetic cat trying to protect its mistress from a bloodthirsty serial killer. In his salad days, Joe tried his hand at art, and landed a few gigs penciling underground horror comics, but his comic book career never really took off, and he was artistically sidetracked by opening a business and starting a family. Fast forward through the everyday ups and downs of family life and business and... In 2009, the first e-readers began to appear on the market, and Joe realized he could bypass the gatekeepers of traditional publishing and get his creative efforts out to the public. He immediately began writing his first novel, The Oldest Living Vampire Tells All. The indie novel was a surprising success, allowing Joe to close down his business and devote himself full time to writing. He followed Oldest Living Vampire with an occult detective novel and a zombie/vampire mashup, and the rest, as they say, is history. If you'd like to contact Mr. Duncan, you may do so at cobraebooks@gmail.com. You can also “friend” him on Facebook, or visit his (sporadically updated) blog Red Ramblings.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1460902203
• ISBN 13: 9781460902202
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 140