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Vampire Circus
by
Mark Morris
In the small, rural community of Shettle children are being viciously murdered. Four men -- schoolteacher Nick Miller, doctor John Kersh, private investigator Chris Blaine and local newspaper editor Alan Michaels -- track the killer, Karl Mitterhaus, down in his house up on the hill and impale him with a spar of wood. His last words as he lies dying send a chill through th...more
Paperback, 352 pages
Published
October 4th 2012
by Hammer
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As others have said here, this isn't a straight novelisation of the Hammer vampire flick, but instead it takes the concept, the bare bones of the plot, some of the characters (renaming some also) and updates it to modern day England. It loses some of it's appeal for me in that what attracted me to the film, and this book, was basically the gothic elements of it set as it was somewhere in middle Europe (Austria?) of roughly the 1700's I think. Some of the elements of the book I didn't find too co...more
Ten years ago, in the rural community of Shettle, four men helped to kill a vampire called Karl Mitterhaus. He vowed revenge - “your children will die!” - before his body was consumed by fire. Today, Shettle has fallen into decline, its residents plagued with ill fortune and when the Circus of Nights rolls into town, entrancing the public, those four men - a newspaper editor, a doctor, a teacher and a private investigator - know that they must protect their own children against supernatural forc...more
I'm a massive fan of the film and when I started reading this I thought what on earth...? It's set in modern times and although the events are synonomous with the events in the movie they are given a modern twist. Some of the characters have changed name and profession as well. One of the criticisms of the film was that it featured too many characters - well this novel features even more! Instead of streamlining many of the characters in the film are actually several characters in the book which...more
A respectable updating of Hammer's cult horror classic (which I personally adore). Kudos to Morris for contemporizing the tale and making the characters far more proactive. On the flip side, a reason why I loved the film is that it took place in a time period that was dangerous and unpredictable and a part of me would have wanted to see the story take place in that time frame. That being said, I wouldn't mind buying this, a quick, breezy and action-packed read.
A rather fun novel based upon the old Hammer classic. However rather than being set in the usual vague ye olden times somewhere in Mitteleuropea, Morris has updated the story to modern day rural England. And despite seeming like sacrilege for Hammer fans, in Morris' hands it actually works rather well, making for a fun old school tale of a small community overwhelmed by an ancient evil.
This opinion is going to irk some people, but I have never really been a big fan of the movie. With that, I really enjoyed this update. If you are looking for a straight novelization, this is not for you.
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Mark Morris became a full-time writer in 1988 on the Enterprise Allowance Scheme, and a year later saw the release of his first novel, Toady. He has since published a further sixteen novels, among which are Stitch, The Immaculate, The Secret of Anatomy, Fiddleback, The Deluge and four books in the popular Doctor Who range.
His short stories, novellas, articles and reviews have appeared in a wide va...more
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