Bite Club: A West Hollywood Vampire Novel (West Hollywood Vampire Novels) [Paperback]

Hal Bodner (Author)

Book Description

Series: West Hollywood Vampire Novels | Publication Date: June 1, 2005

Oh, Bloody Mary!

Welcome to the Bite Club -- where the only requirement for membership is death.

West Hollywood, California. The Creative City. Liberal and welcoming. Free from discrimination and hatred. A safe place to live if you're gay.  But West Hollywood isn't safe anymore...

Someone in town has a macabre passion for beautiful young men. Healthy, gym-toned male bodies keep turning up -- tortured, drained of blood, missing parts and quite, quite dead.

Weho City Coroner Becky O'Brien is helpless to stop the accumulation of corpses.  At the end of her investigative rope, she calls upon an old college friend, Christopher Driscoll, who is something of an expert on serial killers.  Rushing to her aid, Chris arrives in town with his quirky boyfriend Troy in tow.  Prowling the dark alleys and cruisy bars of WeHo in search of the psychotic fiend, the trio soon realizes that something possibly not human has taken up residence in Boys' Town -- something with an insatiable hunger for the flesh and blood of hot young men.

Sexy, scary and very, very funny,  Bite Club is a macabre black comedy that'll have you screaming bloody murder.

Editorial Reviews

From the Author

Stay tuned folks.   The Trouble With Hairy, the long-awaited sequel to Bite Club, should be available in early 2012.

Even better, keep an eye out for my new series which I call the Whirlwind Chronicles -- the adventures of an extremely reluctant super hero.   The first book, tentatively called Fabulous in Tights, should also be out in early 2012.

About the Author

More than slightly mad, Hal Bodner has ben an actor, a scheduler for a 976 telephone service, a personal assistant to a television star, an entertainment attorney and the owner of Heavy Petting, foofy pet boutique.

A widower, he lives in Los Angeles with a collection of dogs and birds, including an irritable flesh-eating macaw named Tallulah, and an amazing boyfriend . He is also the author of several paranormal romances including In Flesh and Stone and For Love of the Dead.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Alyson Books (June 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1555839037
• ISBN-13: 978-1555839031
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,117,616 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Hal Bodner is the author of the best selling gay vampire novel, Bite Club. He tells people he was born in East Philadelphia because so few people know where Cherry Hill, New Jersey is located. The first person he saw in his life was C. Everet Coop, future US Surgeon General, who delivered him. Thus, Hal was ironically destined to become a heavy smoker.

He moved to West Hollywood in the 1980s and has rarely left the city limits during the past twenty years. Hal is so WeHo-centric that he cannot find his way around Beverly Hills, the next town over.

Hal has been an entertainment lawyer, a scheduler for a 976 sex telephone line, a theater reviewer and the personal assistant to a television star. For awhile, he owned Heavy Petting, a pet boutique where all the movie stars shopped for their Pomeranians. Currently, he owns an exotic bird shop.

He has never been a waiter.

He lives with assorted dogs, and birds, the most notable of which is an eighty year old irritable, flesh-eating military macaw named after his icon - Tallulah. He often quips he is a slave to fur and feathers and regrets only that he isn't referring to mink and marabou. He does not have cats because he tends to sneeze on them.

Rapidly approaching middle-age (assuming that more than a few hundred year old people are still around), he remembers Nixon.

He got "married" very late in life to an incredible man. Sadly, after five amazing, if turbulent, years he was widowed and can sometimes be found sunbathing at his husband's grave while trying to avoid cemetery caretakers screaming at him to put his shirt back on.

Hal recently took a crack at writing erotic paranormal romance -- which he refers to as "supernatural smut" -- with "In Flesh and Stone" and "For Love of the Dead". While he enjoyed writing them immensely, he has resolved to return to his comedic roots with additional "Chris and Troy" novels and the adventures of the reluctant super hero, the Whirlwind.

He blushes to admit he is currently romantically involved with a man roughly half his age. As a result, he has recently discovered that the use of hair dye is evidently not an adequate replacement for Viagra.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very funny! highly enjoyable!, June 5, 2005

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sbl "Supernaturalbooklover" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bite Club: A West Hollywood Vampire Novel (West Hollywood Vampire Novels) (Paperback)

One of the best genre books on the market today feature homoeroticism. This book had some pretty funny highlights and sexy characters. I thought the comedy was refreshing, another excellent book for sexy supernatural homoeroticism is D.N. Simmons's Desires Unleashed, it's a bit darker and a more erotic and provocative supernatural novel. Poppy Z. Brite is also good if you enjoyed this novel as I have.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A pretty funny slap-stick vampire comedy., September 24, 2005

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Tazer "I have gone to the darkside." (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bite Club: A West Hollywood Vampire Novel (West Hollywood Vampire Novels) (Paperback)

I thought this story was pretty funny. I didn't think I'd enjoy it as much as I did, since I'm used to reading vampire novels with a more serious tone and sexier characters such as D.N. Simmons or Laurell K Hamilton, but Hal Brodner's novel was pretty good for the first time. So it's a fun read if you have time to spare on a weekend afternoon.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Average, October 13, 2005

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Read A. Lot (Michigan, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bite Club: A West Hollywood Vampire Novel (West Hollywood Vampire Novels) (Paperback)

Bite Club was a moderately fun book that resorted to the use of tired sterotypes to achieve humor. The story involves a gay vampire, his mostly human lover, and their eccentric friends on a mad chase around West Hollywood in search of a rogue vampire. Rather than fully developing his characters, Bodner falls back on a series of cliches to describe them (gay men wearing leather and dressing in drag, overweight people continuously eating at any given moment). Curiously, the most interesting parts of the novel come when the story shifts to a secondary female vampire character across the country helping in the hunt for the rogue vampire. Here the humor is more subtle and feels less forced. Her interactions with other supernatural creatures give the reader much more insight into the world the author attempts to create. This section sadly never comes to any full conclusion however and ends abruptly.