Now this was a lovely book I was glad to be given a sample review copy of after meeting the publisher from Greece (Jemma Press) on the first day of the World Horror Convention earlier in the year in Brighton UK. Only 50 copies were ever printed in English so I feel honoured to have one and the they are looking for a UK, US publisher if anyone is interested.

I was translated into English and that gives it a different feel too many US or UK writers. With classic 1930’s vampires from the silver screen of a bygone day of horror at its core and full of a wealth of film knowledge that beggars belief.

Yet there is a story here, a modern day take on the classic Dracula story, with wild twists and turns that you might not dare to expect.

This was something completely off the radar and it punched with a hidden horseshoe hidden in its horror boxing glove sometimes.

Some of the facts and lines spoken could do with an English eye before publication, one line about Bristols (a slang term for breasts that died out circa 1979 in the UK) and the word jello instead of jelly in one line raised both my eyebrows in amusement. Plus the police coming from Scotland Yard, hasn’t been true for many a long decade.

Yet these are mere translation kinks and did not impact on my enjoyment of the story and I hope to see more of Jemma Press in the years to come.

Blurb:

Lucian Samuels, an eminent horror movie collector, is found brutally murdered in his London home – right next to the body of his killer, who it turns out, was already dead when he committed the crime. Samuels’ collection is a cornucopia of infamous macabre films that are not supposed to exist, and those that choose to watch them risk madness and a gruesome death.

A plane lands at Heathrow Airport, yet its passengers and crew have been massacred in mid-flight. And all around London, the dead are starting to rise...

When paranormal investigator Pandora Ormand is drawn into the mystery that connects these events, she finds herself in a labyrinth of secrets and terrors. As the body count rises at an alarming rate, sinister forces are gathering around a prenatural evil that threatens to change reality itself into a nightmare out of the haunted screens of horror films.