Demon Under Glass [Paperback]

D.L. Warner (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 13, 2009

The pursuit of a serial killer leads to a deeper evil. When the government captures a vampire, he is imprisoned and subjected to brutal medical experiments. With the project's original MD dead, a rookie from the clinic downstairs is brought in as a replacement. As the procedures become more gruesome, Dr. Joe McKay is torn between sympathy for a patient's suffering and concern for the evil that threatens to consume everyone involved. Ultimately, McKay discovers that the real evil isn't the thousand year old vampire but the Delphi Project itself. When it is discovered that he carries the rare gene believed to cause vampirism, the young Doctor is sentenced to a life of confinement and torturous experiments. His only hope to expose the Project and insure his safety is Simon Molinar. But once the vampire has his long sought after companion, will he ever let him go?

Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: Sybaritic Press (January 13, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0971223203
• ISBN-13: 978-0971223202
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,134,078 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

D.L. Warner has been an aspiring writer for as long as she can remember. However, despite degrees in Journalism and Creative Writing, she did not pursue this profession seriously until ten years ago and after many years of working in Public Relations and public service. After the death of her mother, Patricia, Deborah decided that it was time to stop playing it safe and take a chance on her dreams. Fortunately, she had a man in her life crazy enough to think that was a good idea. Thus, Deborah and her husband, Jon Cunningham have been flying without a net in the wilds of Los Angeles for nearly ten years. Aside from a lot of experience in retail, they have a feature film, Demon Under Glass, to their credit and several projects in development.

Customer Reviews

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9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars New Take on Vampire Tales, November 1, 2004

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Dunedain-in-waiting (Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Demon Under Glass (Paperback)

Demon Under Glass is based on a film of the same name (I haven't seen it yet), but I found the book very interesting anyway. It was about a team of scientists with the brilliant idea of capturing a Vampire to study. Even after the project's leader is killed, they keep going with a new doctor in his place. Of course everything goes wrong as happens with all these brilliant ideas. But I enjoyed the way they treated the Vampire like a lab rat and how the writer makes us question the humanity of the captors more than the vampire. I'm a little leery about the homo-erotic parts of the book with the Vamp and the Doctor, but overall, it was cool.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars what about the typos?, April 11, 2007

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Furio (Genova - Italy) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Demon Under Glass (Paperback)

The layout of this novel is pityful.

It is not even justified on the right side and it is so full of typos it becomes quite hard to read, mostly because the typos results in meaningful words which have no meaning in the sentence (automatic ortography check?) such as ''you're'' instead of ''your''.

The novel itself is far from bad. People say the film it is based on is one of the worst in centuries, which I cannot discuss because I have not seen it.

The story is good, though: new, interesting, full of possibilities. Writing is proficient and characterization convincing: Simon and Joe are sweet (even the vampire, yes, though he is a blood thirsty SOB) and sexy.

They are involved in a complex relationship based on a mutual mental and physical attraction: both are straight but while the vampire accepts his attraction and acts accordingly Joe has more problems.

Both are clearly described through the eyes of a woman, which is sometimes unappealing to a gay reader, but Ms Warner has nonetheless the nice idea of finishing the novel leaving this attraction unfulfilled. The two have no sex...

That the ending leaves so many loose threads it screams for a sequel is less fortunate.

The main problem in my opinion is that Ms Warner had not the courage to fully reelaborate the script, expanding the plot. Such as it is this short novel is fun and the topic of the heartless, morally biased FBI and or governmental institutions that do terrible, unjustifiable deeds masking them with the usual POOR excuse of "national security" is well developped.

Characters instead could have been fleshed out, their interaction could have been more complex and interesting without making the novel less entertaining. Such as it is a large potential is left unused. Pity.

5.0 out of 5 stars Demon Under Glass by D. L. Warner: Nothing else like it!, January 8, 2012

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Bridgette - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Demon Under Glass (Paperback)

Between the movie and the book, I ache for more. The Doctor/Vampire relationship (I absolutely do not have a thing for vampires. I hate vampires! But this one rocks!!) has me scouring the web for any sign of more from D.L. Warner and her husband, Jon Cunningham. And that's after 3 years of first having read the book.

It DOESN'T MATTER that the quality of the movie suffers from the low budget. After you read the book and see the movie and really understand what's been accomplished through a good script, excellent acting, and the chemistry of the main characters, "Joe" and "Molinar" (Garett Maggartt and Jason Carter), you see that it is a treasure worth keeping. I'm so glad that the novel-turned-movie was taken seriously and not camped up too much, stylized, or deemed "quirky". The story paints a serious world of unethical research, government-type cover ups, and an innocent, compassionate doctor caught in the middle. This is done convincingly and detailed in amazingly very few pages! (way too short, but a testament to the gravity and power of the story).

The movie tries to follow the novel, but understandably cannot go the distance. I only regret that the dream sequence was more clearly indicated as such, and that the ending could've played out true to the novel. (The things Molinar says to Joe, to assure him that he's not really going to hurt him during his escape, are hot as hell.) And it's even more intense that Joe doesn't even realize how badly the vampire wants him and exactly what his intentions are. (I love "the chase", the one character not giving it up too easily to the other.) It made me wonder at the reason for leaving certain gay content out, when clearly the team was professional, danced awfully close to the gay theme, arriving short of being too obvious, but not obvious enough in my opinion. I mean finally, a suspenseful, psychological, dramatic work of fiction (in spite of the blood) that has two men - who can be taken seriously - bound in a complicated attraction that doesn't disappoint with predictable, disposable sex, but continues to pull the sexual tension taut well after the last page. It's the best kind of sex - Molinar's violent desire for Joe, Joe keeping his distance. Hot hot hot! And it does go on to deliver the goods, but that's another novel. *cough* (D.L. Please write more! You have the makings of something great.)

All of the actors were perfect. I was especially impressed with the lady cop as well as the scientists. Taken in its entirety, this is a very special project (movie and book should be experienced together by M/M lovers) and worth so much more than what I paid for it, in terms of what one looks for in a fulfilling novel/movie experience.

Thank you thank you thank you, D.L. and Jon! After 3 years, I still hurt for more.