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A Red Dark Night
Many summers ago, an evil presence known as a Bloodan visited Camp Silverway, a peaceful summer camp for teenage girls, and nearly killed a young girl named Shelly. Mary Thompson, a girl on a bunk bed near Shelly, watched as the creature made from blood and darkness, began to sink into Shelly and begin to feed. Through tears and cloudy vision, she also saw her friend rescued by a stranger in a black cape, with blue fire blasting from his hand. Never forgetting that night, Mary was tormented for years by the memory of what she saw, and now, twenty-two years later, she has returned to Camp Silverway as a camp counselor, trying to face her fear. However, what starts out as a fun summer soon comes to an end when not one, but several Bloodans return to the camp and begin killing again. As before, the man in the black cape, Tarek, reappears, yet he hasn't aged a day since he rescued Shelly long ago. Shock upon shock ensues as Mary learns not only where the creatures and her hero come from, but also when. The Bloodans enclose the camp in a liquid red dome made of blood, and as everyone around her gets killed and the monsters multiply, Mary, her friend Sarah, and Tarek are left with no place to go. Except for maybe one. What starts as a simple horror tale soon turns into a spellbinding saga as the story takes you on a journey you have never experienced before, stretching along the Strands of Time, with life hanging by a thread. ABOUT THE A.P. Fuchs is the author of many novels and short stories, most of which have been published. His most recent series, Blood of my World, has just been released. The first three books in that series are Discovery of Death, Memories of Death, and Life of Death. He also writes zombie fiction. His most recent in that genre Possession of the Dead and Zombie Fight Battles of the Dead, in which zombies fight such classic monsters as werewolves, vampires, Bigfoot, and even go up against awesome foes like pirates, ninjas, and . . . Bruce Lee. His first horror short story collection, Magic Man Plus 15 Tales of Terror, is available as well. A.P. Fuchs is also known for his superhero series, The Axiom-man Saga, and the author of the shoot 'em up zombie trilogy, Undead World. He also edited the zombie anthologies Dead Science and Vicious Verses and Reanimated Zany Zombie Poetry for the Undead Head. Fuchs lives and writes in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Visit his corner of the Web at www.canisterx.com Check out the Undead World Trilogy at www.undeadworldtrilogy.com And follow him on Twitter at www.twitter.com/ap_fuchs
224 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2004
About the author
A.P. Fuchs
77 books42 followersA.P. Fuchs writes and publishes fulltime from Winnipeg, MB, and is most well known for his superhero series, The Axiom-man Saga. He spends most of his time writing about zombies and publishing books about them. His shoot em zombie novel, Blood of the Dead, is about just that and, obviously, goes without saying but hes saying it anyway.
He is also an avid movie buff and his reviews are posted at www.canisterx.com, Amazon.com/.ca.co.uk, Barnesandnoble.com, and his Myspace page at www.myspace.com/apfuchs. Likewise, movies are discussed and reviewed on Canister Xs Youtube channel at www.youtube.com/canisterx
Fuchs also writes non-fiction, Twitters a lot and writes in his blog thats here 5 to 6 days out of the week, sometimes more than once a day.
Hes also the owner and sole-proprietor of Coscom Entertainment, a publishing firm specializing in superhero and monster fiction.
Oh . . . as a few side things, he digs cooking, watching TV, making compost and following the exploits of Batgirl, Red Robin and Batman and Robin on a monthly basis.
He also has a few secrets of earth-shattering proportions, but hes not telling them now nor ever, and plans on taking them to his grave.
He is also an avid movie buff and his reviews are posted at www.canisterx.com, Amazon.com/.ca.co.uk, Barnesandnoble.com, and his Myspace page at www.myspace.com/apfuchs. Likewise, movies are discussed and reviewed on Canister Xs Youtube channel at www.youtube.com/canisterx
Fuchs also writes non-fiction, Twitters a lot and writes in his blog thats here 5 to 6 days out of the week, sometimes more than once a day.
Hes also the owner and sole-proprietor of Coscom Entertainment, a publishing firm specializing in superhero and monster fiction.
Oh . . . as a few side things, he digs cooking, watching TV, making compost and following the exploits of Batgirl, Red Robin and Batman and Robin on a monthly basis.
He also has a few secrets of earth-shattering proportions, but hes not telling them now nor ever, and plans on taking them to his grave.
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November 10, 2025
Adam P. Fuchs set out to write a B-Grade horror flick in book form. He failed. Instead, A.P. Fuchs produced a book that is an A-Grade page turner.
It starts off in 1982 at Camp Silverway, where we are introduced to the Bloodans and Tarek, a man from a future darker than we could imagine. There is a battle between The Bloodans and Humans. They are from the future and somehow have found a way to cause a rip in time, so they can seep into the past. They have two weaknesses only, one just recently discovered.
Camp Silverway seems to be a focal point for the Bloodans, they all enter the past at the same location. Bloodans don’t just kill, they sink into a body and drain it of blood. They need blood to survive, and shortly after, the dead becomes one of them.
A.P. Fuchs shows us a future controlled by the Bloodans. A place where the sky is red with patches of charcoal black and thick gray smoke hangs in the air. All in all, this book is a great read. The start is a bit slow as everything is laid into place. After that, it takes off at a quick pace and never lets up, building momentum with every turn of page.
Unfortunately, A.P. Fuchs doesn’t spent enough time building characters the reader would care for. The warriors were well built and believable (apart from some of the dialogue), but the female leads, Mary and Sarah, come across as just names on a page.
There are a few scenes when the “Un-believability Factor” is broken – that fine line crossed – that momentarily destroys the world we have entered. The most important being in chapter two where Mary is racing to the camp after her lover is killed, while being chased by a Bloodan — and no one seems concerned. Also there is the lack of emotion from every character (except Tarek and Salch) in the book. Some of the characters that were portrayed well, died quickly. Was this the B-Grade effect A.P. Fuchs was looking for, which is mentioned in the introduction?
Get past the above (I’m a picky reader/reviewer) and this book will seem like an action packed movie.
The story flows from page to page. All you need is popcorn and a coke. This book would make an excellent movie.
Over all rating out of 5: 3.5 (due to the above mentioned lack of characterization)
Content, action, description: 4.5 (reads like a movie – great visual scenes)
Writing – style and prose: 4
I’ll leave you with A.P. Fuchs’s description, told via Tarek, of what the Bloodans are: “Bloodans,” he began, “are made of blood. They come from a place where more blood has been shed than on any other ground on earth. The evil which caused the bloodshed’s very real. It is the embodiment of darkness, the essence of death and murder, and that…evil…gives them life. Death fuels them. Unfortunately, as long as there is death, there will be Bloodans.”
It starts off in 1982 at Camp Silverway, where we are introduced to the Bloodans and Tarek, a man from a future darker than we could imagine. There is a battle between The Bloodans and Humans. They are from the future and somehow have found a way to cause a rip in time, so they can seep into the past. They have two weaknesses only, one just recently discovered.
Camp Silverway seems to be a focal point for the Bloodans, they all enter the past at the same location. Bloodans don’t just kill, they sink into a body and drain it of blood. They need blood to survive, and shortly after, the dead becomes one of them.
A.P. Fuchs shows us a future controlled by the Bloodans. A place where the sky is red with patches of charcoal black and thick gray smoke hangs in the air. All in all, this book is a great read. The start is a bit slow as everything is laid into place. After that, it takes off at a quick pace and never lets up, building momentum with every turn of page.
Unfortunately, A.P. Fuchs doesn’t spent enough time building characters the reader would care for. The warriors were well built and believable (apart from some of the dialogue), but the female leads, Mary and Sarah, come across as just names on a page.
There are a few scenes when the “Un-believability Factor” is broken – that fine line crossed – that momentarily destroys the world we have entered. The most important being in chapter two where Mary is racing to the camp after her lover is killed, while being chased by a Bloodan — and no one seems concerned. Also there is the lack of emotion from every character (except Tarek and Salch) in the book. Some of the characters that were portrayed well, died quickly. Was this the B-Grade effect A.P. Fuchs was looking for, which is mentioned in the introduction?
Get past the above (I’m a picky reader/reviewer) and this book will seem like an action packed movie.
The story flows from page to page. All you need is popcorn and a coke. This book would make an excellent movie.
Over all rating out of 5: 3.5 (due to the above mentioned lack of characterization)
Content, action, description: 4.5 (reads like a movie – great visual scenes)
Writing – style and prose: 4
I’ll leave you with A.P. Fuchs’s description, told via Tarek, of what the Bloodans are: “Bloodans,” he began, “are made of blood. They come from a place where more blood has been shed than on any other ground on earth. The evil which caused the bloodshed’s very real. It is the embodiment of darkness, the essence of death and murder, and that…evil…gives them life. Death fuels them. Unfortunately, as long as there is death, there will be Bloodans.”
April 29, 2013
Camp Silveryway holds most memories universal to summer camp sojourners from youth to counselor. There's plenty of hiking, fishing, games, sing-along songs, counselor's sexual escapades....and, oh yes, rips through the fabric of time large enough to usher in beings from the future.
These beings are called Bloodans, creatures composed of blood that can liquefy as well as take human form who like to feed off of humans by absorption. Whatever is left of their victims becomes one of them as well. It's a process where the Blob meets vampires, all in all. What's more, a mysterious man in black sporting a cape, cowboy boots and a rather nasty gauntlet about his arm arrives from the future as well to save the camp from the dreaded Bloodans.
A Red Dark Night reads like a classic '60's B-horror flick with a slight contemporary feel, and an even slighter literary upgrade. Its very simple premise makes for a remarkably complicated read as the story progresses, which three-quarters of the way can become oftentimes confusing. This is by no means to say the read isn't worthwhile; Fuchs is an exceptionally fluid writer with a keen inventiveness and proficiency sadly lacking in the works of many writers of today. He is diehard in his craft, as is evident in every aspect of his career as a writer, from his ambitious "A Stranger Dead" to his short works to founding Coscom Entertainment, a small Canadian press flaunting an expanding line of impressive titles worthy of the larger publishing houses.
The Bloodans themselves are reason enough to give this tale a good once-over, and the story does its job in wanting you to further your journey, to read page after page to find out what's going to happen next and how the black-clad gauntlet-wielding stranger will save at least a handful of helpless camp counselors, but if this isn't reason enough, I dare you to pick up a copy if only to catch a glimpse into the mind of A. P. Fuchs.
We'll be hearing a lot more from him soon. And check out the chapters involving the bus.....that in itself is indeed visionary.
These beings are called Bloodans, creatures composed of blood that can liquefy as well as take human form who like to feed off of humans by absorption. Whatever is left of their victims becomes one of them as well. It's a process where the Blob meets vampires, all in all. What's more, a mysterious man in black sporting a cape, cowboy boots and a rather nasty gauntlet about his arm arrives from the future as well to save the camp from the dreaded Bloodans.
A Red Dark Night reads like a classic '60's B-horror flick with a slight contemporary feel, and an even slighter literary upgrade. Its very simple premise makes for a remarkably complicated read as the story progresses, which three-quarters of the way can become oftentimes confusing. This is by no means to say the read isn't worthwhile; Fuchs is an exceptionally fluid writer with a keen inventiveness and proficiency sadly lacking in the works of many writers of today. He is diehard in his craft, as is evident in every aspect of his career as a writer, from his ambitious "A Stranger Dead" to his short works to founding Coscom Entertainment, a small Canadian press flaunting an expanding line of impressive titles worthy of the larger publishing houses.
The Bloodans themselves are reason enough to give this tale a good once-over, and the story does its job in wanting you to further your journey, to read page after page to find out what's going to happen next and how the black-clad gauntlet-wielding stranger will save at least a handful of helpless camp counselors, but if this isn't reason enough, I dare you to pick up a copy if only to catch a glimpse into the mind of A. P. Fuchs.
We'll be hearing a lot more from him soon. And check out the chapters involving the bus.....that in itself is indeed visionary.
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