Weird and the bold

Vampire-The Slayer:

I have always been fascinated by things that are Gothic or connect you to the other world....Yu believe it ot not, everyone wants to know what is so supernatural??? Don't you??Haven't you bee bewitched by fairy tales or for that matter Rowling's PotterMania?? You cannot ignore it when you come to know that there are surreal powers and souls wondering around ir hovering....My recent crush has been a series of the Steel Chronicles, Book 2, Jan
“The 12th Demon: Vampyre Majick” by Bruce Hennigan.

A sneak peak into the summary: "After defeating the thirteenth demon, Jonathan Steel and Josh Knight return to Dallas, Texas, to finish up Josh's family affairs. When they arrive, a mysterious assassin named Raven surfaces from Steel's murky, dangerous past. At the same time, Rudolph Wulf, the twelfth demon, has arrived from Romania with plans to fulfill a two-thousand-year-old promise to unleash an army of demonic creatures--creatures that will inhabit the bodies of his "vampyre" army. When Wulf kidnaps Josh, Steel must find them in time to save Josh from a violent death and to prevent Wulf from unleashing "vampyre majick" on the world."

You can well check out some sample pages of this enchanting book at : http://www.amazon.com/12th-Demon-Vampyre-Jonathan-Chronicles/dp/1934454095/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233050888&sr=1-2#reader.

This spine chilling book sets off into motion with the words" The knife's surface was drappled with raindrops, but the assassin could still see the reflection of her lips...."

The author is a self-professed Christian, and that belief (becoming saved) permeates the book. It seems like a fixed fight. After all, are you going to have evil win? And there certainly are good heroes like Jonathan Steel and villains, such as “Raven” the code name for female assassin, Elizabeth Allen Poe. But there is also Josh, a high school kid whose mother died in the first book. He is a new Christian but a little disillusioned by his protector, Steel, and drawn back to a cult of vampires (one of which is his girlfriend, Ila). The book asks the intriguing question: Would someone renounce their faith to save another? There are some other colorful characters who add texture to the tale: a six-foot seven homeless man helping Steel, the 12th Demon, Wulf, and a tough woman cop, Lieutenant Kane. .

You will find an angry hero in misfit with strange issues of amnesia. Certainly there are demons.The action makes you dizzy and some of the metamorphoses are cinematic to say the least: “Vivian struggled in the grip of Wulf’s claws, snapping her head back and forth. She moved with a rapid, nightmarish staccato, and her face began to change. Her mouth widened and revealed a row of sharp teeth. Her hair writhed into black tentacles, and her arms become jointed, chitinous appendages. Huge, white orbs filled her eyes. She seemed a combination of creatures: the teeth of a shark, the limbs of a praying mantis, and the tentacles of a squid.”

Great dialogue, plenty of back story, a brief history of vampirism and even a snippet or two of theology (one character’s theory is that Satan originally dispatched twelve demons to counteract each of Jesus’s twelve disciples), plus a few little nuggets for those paying close attention (two of the young vampires are called “Spike” and “Stake,” Wulf’s pharmaceutical company is located in Romania (Transylvania)). The ending is a bit convoluted, but it leaves the door open for the next book. Whether or not this is your taste in reading (you should have an imagination that reaches well beyond the literal) you have to admire the prodigious mind that put all this on paper in such a though provoking, yet entertaining form. Now that’s miraculous!