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Dusk [Mass Market Paperback]

Ron Dee (Author)
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March 1, 1991
Freed from restraints and seeking instant gratification into eternity. . . It's your next door neighbor. . . your teenager . . . maybe a streetwalker or even your boss . . . or lover . . .seducing the living, spawning more undead. Call them wanton . . . zombies . . . capitalists . . . vampires.

Just call it Hell.

Their firm flesh will melt you, sear your own with their burning, flaming decadent lust. Their lusting, taunting and horny caresses kill. Religious symbols may hold no power over them, and they walk in the light of the sun . . . as they have spread out from a Texas ghost town onto the neon streets of Dallas.

No mere human can resist them.

Only a fool will stand in their way as dusk settles on Dallas with a blood red sun--over its freeways, skyscrapers and gutters, the rational successful modern men and women, yuppies and pushers . . . over the men and women who yearn lustily for each other's flesh . . .

It settles over civilization with a blood red sun . . . over the landmarks of modern rational man, his freeways and skyscrapers, the yuppies, scumbags wannabes and pushers . . . over men and women yearning for someone else's flesh, and blood . . . They are the fictional attractive streetwalkers, the next-door neighbor you've wanted . . . the spoiled teenagers and sweaty workers, muscular men and slender, well-formed women, freed from restraints and seeking instant gratification into eternity. Some call them vampires, some call it Hell. The flesh is firm and searing and their caresses kill. They have spread from a Texas ghost town to the neon Dallas streets, driven by their hungers.

Samantha Borden, an INS agent has accidently come upon these horrors while seeking the man who did her wrong, another INS agent who is MIA, and she finds far more than her worst nightmares come to undeath. Joined by police and criminals, and by a preacher and his wife who have known the fanged horrors before, Samantha battles life, death and undeath to retain her sanity and identity . . . her freedom.

And perhaps the freedom for a world unknowing of the true dangers that await it in the darkness, in the ghost towns, and now even in the lights of civilization.

'A disturbing novel . . . raw and vivid . . . well worth reading.'--Locus


'An action-packed brew of sex, terror and redemption." --John Russo, author of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

  • Mass Market Paperback
  • Publisher: Dell; First Edition edition (March 1, 1991)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0440207096
  • ISBN-13: 978-0440207092
  • Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.3 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,957,547 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

FYI: I also have books published as David Darke.

I am and have been classified as a horror author. True enough, in the beginning of my writing, I did begin writing stories with hints of horror, but primarily I started out to become a science fiction author... I wrote several early short stories and got steered into horror early probably because I used to watch a lot of the British Hammer horror films on TV. In high school I and another student I then met got together to adapt Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' as a high school play (this was more than twenty years before the great novel was rewritten by the Godfather brain as Coppola's Dracula)...

After this and getting into acting and Drama in school, I became interested in making a high school play based on fictional hauntings in the house built by the man who invented the Winchester rifle which I read about in a Disney magazine distributed back then by Gulf gasoline stations. I later found out that this had already been done a couple of times by Shirley Jackson and Richard Matheson Sr., respectively...but I wrote this as my first novel, 'Boundaries,' which was also the movie made by my high school Thespian class that I wrote and directed. My first wife played one of the major roles and it was through the making of this film and some plays hat we became acquainted.

But, as writing was far less expensive than making films and video cameras were not then easily available or affordable if they had been....I continued to write now that I was bitten by that so called writing bug... Actually, I would probably have steered that direction anyway since I have a lot more confidence in my ability to achieve what I wish to without relying on others, which in ways is good, but a curse to my personal life...

But years and years passed before I became professionally published again after my soon forgotten first novel.

And then, kind of like the proverbial breaking dam...I achieved two published novels within six months of each other by two different publishers in 1989-1990... These novels were Brain Fever, which I had originally titled 'Piece of Mind' and which was published by Zebra Pinnacle Books,my editor being Wendy McCurdy. Although I had been disappointed initially that she and Zebra had not been interested in my book 'Blood Lust' (originally titled 'The Traveling Salesman')+, I was very happy about that when Getah Kothari and Jeanne Cavelos of Dell Publishing found it of interest shortly after Zebra turned it down and agreed to buy it when after they requested and I made some revisions that were minor to write in effort but made some fairyly major changes (in a good way) to the flow of the novel.

Then, before the novel was even published, Jeanne called me and said she was putting together a new horror line for Dell that was to be named Abyss and she wanted me to write a vampire novel for it, and that it could be loosely tied to 'Blood Lust' if I chose. And so was born 'Dusk.'

 

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3.0 out of 5 stars Not Abyss' best release, but I've read far, far worse., July 28, 2009
This review is from: Dusk (Mass Market Paperback)
Ron Dee, Dusk (Abyss, 1991)

Back in the early nineties, Dell's Abyss line of horror got off to possibly every wrong start it could. It debuted about a year after the end of the big eighties horror boom, it didn't get nearly as much publicity as it should, it started out as a paperback-only imprint, and the monolithic Dell was trying to compete with a few smaller, far more agile publishers who'd been doing horror as long as they'd been around (Jove, Pinnacle, and Leisure, among others). But what Dell brought to the Abyss table was quality; whereas other publishers were known either for their cheesy offerings or for setting the bar of what they'd publish relatively low, Abyss set out to look for authors whose work was not only horrific, but good. As a result, they started off by discovering a young new talent named Kathe Koja (who is now a multi-award-winning teen fiction author) and publishing the third book by a then-unknown horror writer named Brian Hodge (now a greatly respected thriller writer). While not all of their publications were as momentous as those first two, the first year of Abyss did provide us with twelve fun, readable novels, of which Dusk was one.

Dee (Brain Fever) takes a look at the vampire genre that's become pretty common these days, but wasn't back then--the western vampire (popularized recently by both Douglass Clegg and Justin Gustainis). This one focuses on Samantha Borden, an immigration agent sent to a ghost town in the Arizona desert to try and track down her missing partner (and ex-lover), Walt. Walt went missing in that town a while previous, and with the help of Sheriff Bill, the laconic lawman from the nearest inhabited spot, she aims to find out what happened to him. Sheriff Bill has a strong warning for her, however: they can only visit the ghost town, Las Bocas, during the daytime. When Sam gets to the town, she finds out why: someone has crossed out the Las Bocas on the Hotel Las Bocas sign and written in Los Vampiros instead. Sam doesn't believe the town is inhabited by vampires, of course, and in a fit of pique tells Sheriff Bill she'll spend the night there to try and find out what happened to her partner. She's soon joined by a troupe of college students whose van broke down, and they all find out that vampires are all too real. When Bill returns to the town the next day, he finds Samantha, the only survivor, deeply dehydrated and at death's door. All the college students are dead... or are they?

Dee's flashed it up with some elements that have obviously been influential in the intervening years, but when it comes right down to it, this is your basic vampire novel, borrowing a bit from here and a bit from there, and coming up with a predictable plot whose every twist you can see coming a mile off. It's not badly-written, though, and you'll keep turning the pages to see what happens next even if you know what it is. Not the best of the first twelve Abyss novels by any means, but not that bad, either. ** ½
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2.0 out of 5 stars Maybe not pure trash, but...., August 19, 2002
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Darren Jacks (North Hollywood, Ca) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dusk (Mass Market Paperback)
I won't go that far, because it takes a lot to be able to write a good story; one that is believeable and engaging. However, since we are talking about horror, toss out the believeability factor. This story wasn't even engaging enough to keep my attention for long, although I did finish it. Any time you spend money on a book, you have a duty to finish it.

This was like going to the dentist, though. It was literally like pulling teeth to finish this zombie tale about the living dead in downtown Dallas.

Even more surprising was that the folks at Dell Abyss would publish this. The Abyss line put out some good little horror novels, like the Stephen King blurb said. However, this wasn't one of them.

If you want to read a DECENT novel from Dee, try SUCCUMB. It's not Shakespeare and the premise is not new, but Dee writes a good little yarn about being careful for what you wish for. It's light year's better than this novel.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Cheap thrills, pure trash., July 12, 1999
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This review is from: Dusk (Mass Market Paperback)
A shallow, virtually storyless novel about vampires ravaging Dallas. The book pads out to 369 tortuous pages with what could have just about made a short story. I confess to having skimmed the last 50 or so because I just couldn't take it anymore. Not only was the lethargic pace a killer, but Dee's writing is plain lousy. I found the prose insulting to my intelligence, to say the least, and he loads it with profanity like a teenager saying "look what I can write!" I find it amazing that this title ever got published, let alone by Dell Abyss. It doesn't even rate as beach reading.
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