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Sunday, September 7, 2008
Review of Fear Me - A Vampire Novel of Horror
One of my all time favorite vampire novels is Fear Me by Stephen Laws (Leisure, 2005). It is scary and suspenseful. Everything you look for in a horror story.
Prologue
Three women, Yvonne, Bernice, and Jacqueline meet in an underground parking garage with plans to kill a certain student loan consolidation program who has literally made their lives a living hell. Yvonne seems Joipnvushidjlb most fragile and frightened of them, but when the man they know as Gideon makes his hideous appearance they each, in turn, fire the gun that finally leaves him unmoving and dead. Or is he?
Part I
Paul visits his mother in an asylum. The doctors have said she suffers from Alzheimer, but she had been in exactly the international conference calls state for 12 years. She is always verbally abusive to her son on his visits. Even so Paul felt a duty to be with her as frequently as possible. Later, after Paul has left, his mother wakes up hearing the mesmerizing voices of the trees singing to her. This often happens, and she is the only one who can hear. Sometimes their song is a comfort other times not. The singing today seems a mixture. Still she unhesitatingly follows their command to leave her bed and walk outside the hospital. When she arrives at a forested area a stranger appears with a shotgun, aims it at her and fires.
Soon after, while at the house, Paul and his father are confronted by a young man who storms into their house and attempts to murder both of them. With great difficulty Paul overtakes the man. The father, badly injured, tells Paul he must run and hide because it is Paul they seek. Before he can explain what this means, he falls unconscious. Now Paul is left to his own devices which turn out to be more horrifying than he ever imagines.
My Opinion
Laws understands how to build suspense and keep the spook factor high. This is not a book to read on a dark and stormy night although, even as I say this, I must admit that yesterday evening I was so engrossed in the story that I kept reading even with a terrifically loud thunder storm overhead. Fortunately the lights stayed on.
Patricia Altner is a freelance writer, researcher, and bibliographer. She has a special interest in vampire and paranormal fiction. This review was originally written for patricias-vampire-notes.blogspot.com/">Patricia's Vampire Notes
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