Night Souls (Department 18)

Maynard, L. H.,Sims, M. P. N.

ISBN 10: 0843963786 / ISBN 13: 9780843963786

Published by Leisure Books, 2010

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Synopsis:

There is a race of vampire like creatures. The species is called Spiraci from the Latin to breathe. They are called Breathers. They feed on human souls. They have existed since before Man walked the Earth.

They have evolved over centuries and in the 21st they are split into three factions.

John Holly leads a global business that has franchised the feeding. He is organized and ruthless and wants to genetically modify the creatures DNA so they are less dependent on humans. They would have no need for them but would inhabit the planet.

Rachel Grey runs a second faction and wants to destroy Holly so she can operate the creatures as her fore fathers did - in the traditional manner. This would increase the feeding on humans and destroy them.

Both groups are a threat to humanity.

The third group is less organized, barely a group at all. They are led by Jason Pike who wants to stop the other two groups, and have a complete end to the feeding. This is because he was human but was turned by one of Holly's ancestors.

The action takes place over a three day period.

About the Author: BIOGRAPHY: LH Maynard & MPN Sims.

Their first supernatural novel, Shelter, was published mass market in July 2006 by Leisure in USA. Their second, Demon Eyes, was a December 2007 publication by Leisure, and the third, Black Cathedral, the first Department 18 book, was published early 2009, with a fourth, Night Souls, the second Department 18 book, scheduled for June 2010 publication.

They are also working on a crime thriller trilogy series of novels and three adventure thriller novels.Scripts from their ghost stories are being developed.

Numerous stories have been published in a variety of anthologies and magazines, including the Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, the anthology, Strange Tales, which won the World Fantasy Award 2004 and the Del Rey anthology, The Children Of Cthulhu

Collections include, Shadows At Midnight, 1979 and 1999 (revised and enlarged), Echoes Of Darkness, 2000, Incantations, 2002, two retrospective collections of their stories, essays and interviews, The Secret Geography Of Nightmare and Selling Dark Miracles, both 2002, one introduced by Hugh Lamb and the other by Stephen Jones, and Falling Into Heaven in 2004.

Novellas, Moths, The Hidden Language Of Demons, The Seminar, and Double Act, have been published in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2007 respectively.
They worked as editors on the first seven volumes of Darkness Rising, and the two annual Darkness Rising anthologies. They co-edited and published F20 with The British Fantasy Society. As editors/publishers they ran Enigmatic Press in the UK, which produced Enigmatic Tales, and its sister titles. They wrote essays for the Mark Chadbourn website At The World's End.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Night Souls (Department 18)
Publisher: Leisure Books
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: paperback
Condition: Very Good