Angel: Strange Bedfellows and Other Stories

Angel (1999) #4, 10–11, 17

by Christopher Golden, Thomas E. Sniegoski, Eric Powell

The largest book of Angel stories yet, this volume completes the collection of Angel Volume 1 , featuring stories set in the first season of the hit television series. It sees the evolution of the team of vampire hunters from the very beginning, through the death of sidekick Doyle. The title story, drawn by artist Christian Zanier, features a vampire brothel, in which the bloodsucking madam tries to lure Angel into unholy congress with his own kind. This volume also features the first solo Cordelia story, in which she and her haunted apartment defend themselves against a demonic intruder.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Horror, Graphic Novels Comics, Fantasy

104 pages, Paperback

First published March 27, 2002

About the author

CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN is the New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of such novels as Road of Bones, Ararat, Snowblind, Of Saints and Shadows, and Red Hands. With Mike Mignola, he is the co-creator of the Outerverse comic book universe, including such series as Baltimore, Joe Golem: Occult Detective, and Lady Baltimore. As an editor, he has worked on the short story anthologies Seize the Night, Dark Cities, and The New Dead, among others, and he has also written and co-written comic books, video games, screenplays, and a network television pilot. Golden co-hosts the podcast Defenders Dialogue with horror author Brian Keene. In 2015 he founded the popular Merrimack Valley Halloween Book Festival. He was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he still lives with his family. His work has been nominated for the British Fantasy Award, the Eisner Award, and multiple Shirley Jackson Awards. For the Bram Stoker Awards, Golden has been nominated ten times in eight different categories. His original novels have been published in more than fifteen languages in countries around the world. Please visit him at www.christophergolden.com

Reviews

[Ian · Rating 3 out of 5]

Four stories of the vampire private investigator and his allies Cordelia, Doyle and Wesley.
Here Angel and company confront an abusive husband, hunt down a vampire hooker, work with a ghost and declare their mission to LA's vampire underworld.

What's good about this book is that, much like the TV series itself, it can deal with darker and more mature themes than Buffy stories can.
The story where he has to deal with an abusive, but totally human, husband is one such example, as is the concept of vampire callgirls. It makes for more interesting reading than much of the PG-13 (12A here in the UK) action of the Buffy books.

Unfortunately, none of the stories here are long enough to develop any real depth and, as a result, feel pretty disposable overall.

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[Karen-Leigh · Rating 3 out of 5]

Strange Bedfellows....substitute for Chameleons by Glen A. Larson