by Arabella Randolphe
1977 Berkley Medallion
I read this Interview With a Vampire knock-off because it had been ranked as one of the worst horror novels of all time. Unfortunately it's just dull and incompetent, not crazy bat-poop nonsense like Eat Them Alive.
The core story is about a woman fleeing persecution in England becoming a vampire, an elite vampire who can walk in daylight. This story is told in a series of cassette tapes in a framing story involving a will reading, which itself has a framing story of police investigating a massacre at said reading.
Dull and rambling, it decides to get cute near the end with the vampire hanging out with Bram Stoker and accidentally dispatching Jack the Ripper. The only highlights were a couple of quick summaries of torture and debauchery with went way over the top for a paragraph or two before settling back down.
Arabella Randolphe is a pseudonym for Jack Younger, which is a pseudonym that's been used by Russ Jones and David Kraft.
Paperback from Amazon
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