At The End of Church Street [Paperback]

Gregory L Hall (Author), Louise Bohmer (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 28, 2010

Desperate homeless kids or the blood drinking undead? At the End of Church Street takes you to the forgotten that huddle in the shadows of a tourist wonderland. The Vampires of Orlando. Discarded and starving, Rebecca joins her new family and is reborn. As a Goth, she soon revels in the lifestyle of 'no rules'. Love whoever you want. Seek whatever high you wish. Live forever young. Every night is an adventure-hunting down tourists, challenging the local police, screaming to the world vampires really exist. They finally get the television coverage they crave to ensure the respect they've been denied. It's Neverland. ...Until the first murder. There's someone else hiding in the darkness. Goth kids are found beheaded with wooden stakes pounded through their chests. The hunters have become the hunted. As the bodies pile up, Rebecca and the Family are forced to ask 'Who do you turn to, who can you trust, when the only person who believes you're an actual vampire is a vampire killer?' This is not your father's Nosferatu. This is not teen romance disguised as horror with prom date vampires. Welcome to a world you already know. Welcome to the world at the end of Church Street.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Gregory L Hall has a long history in comedy and theatre. He is a national Telly Award winner and creator of the Baltimore Comedy Fest. His short stories have been published in numerous magazines and anthologies including Shroud, Alien Skin, Necrotic Tissue and Morpheus Tales. He runs the popular horror website Choate Road and is the host/producer of the internet radio talk show The Funky Werepig.

Product Details

• Paperback: 296 pages
• Publisher: Belfire Press (April 28, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0986483133
• ISBN-13: 978-0986483134
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,672,316 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Gregory L Hall has a long history in comedy and theatre. He is a national Telly Award winner and creator of the Baltimore Comedy Fest as well as dozens of original works for stage and video/film. His biggest claim to fame during these years is that he was once hugged by Pat Morita of The Karate Kid.

As a writer his stories have appeared in numerous publications including Shroud, Alien Skin, Necrotic Tissue and Morpheus Tales. His short story 'Mintas and Frankie' finished in the Top Ten fan favorites by the P&E polls in 2008 and 'Dracula's Winkee' finished the same under Romance in 2009.

His novel 'AT THE END OF CHURCH STREET' has received great fan support and critical acclaim. It's a dark and realistic thriller about homeless kids in Orlando who live the vampire lifestyle. Their goth Neverland turns into a nightmare when someone believed to be a vampire hunter begins murdering the clan.

"This is the kind of debut authors dream of"

~ Joe McKinney, author of DEAD CITY and APOCALYPSE OF THE DEAD

Gregory also owns the website Choate Road and is the host/producer of the popular live internet radio talk show The Funky Werepig.

He continues to be on his best behavior so that his wife and children do not vote to lock him out of the house. The weekly re-evaluations occur every Friday so check back often.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars These Vampires Bite, June 5, 2010

By 

Aaron Polson "horror writer" (Lawrence, KS USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: At The End of Church Street (Paperback)

I picked up At the End of Church Street by Greg Hall because of the hook:

Live forever young. Every night is an adventure--hunting down tourists, challenging the local police, screaming to the world vampires really exist.

The book sounded a little like Peter Pan with vampires...

Who wouldn't want to read that?

Church Street keeps you running the back alleys of Orlando with homeless kids who live together in an abandoned theater as family. They claim to be vampires and live as such until someone, who evidently believes they are vampires, begins killing them with the age-old vampire slaying favorites: a stake through the heart and beheading.

There are twists and turns through the full-throttle narrative which keep the reader propelled toward the "turn it up to eleven" conclusion.

Greg Hall has added some nice layers to the vampire mythos and, instead of playing pansy with his teenaged protagonists, he gives them real life and death choices to face. This isn't a bloody climax slapped on to the end of a sappy love story; Church Street is all climax, all life and death and love.

And in the end, vampires are badass again.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Orlando's supernatural secrets., June 14, 2010

By 

Book Fan 2008 "Book Collector" (Kilrush, Ireland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: At The End of Church Street (Paperback)

Gregory L Hall's AT THE END OF CHURCH STREET is an adept and novel imagining of the age-old vampire story. Hall offers a gritty portrayal of life on the streets where the shadows conceal much more than petty criminals. His eye for observational detail masterfully places the reader in his bleak but believable settings. In the end CHURCH STREET is a stark, intelligent and thrilling depiction of the seedy (and supernatural) subculture lurking within Orlando's darker places.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A well written, fast-paced, suspenseful tale, September 27, 2010

By 

Shroud Magazine's Book Reviews (New Hampshire) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)   

This review is from: At The End of Church Street (Paperback)

At The End Of Church Street is a well written, fast-paced, suspenseful tale that pulls the reader effortlessly into a dark, gritty world of wayward adolescents who gave up their normal lives in favor of a fantasy-land of immortality. In an abandoned theatre, the gothic family revels in the euphoria of youth and the thrill of hunting tourists for screams and laughs down the dark alleys they call home.

Rebecca Anne, a young run-away, desperately clings to the shadows of Orlando's downtown. She can't even recall the last time she had a proper meal. That's until Renfield, the faithful servant of the faux-vampire clan, offers her a new life she openly embraces. After purchasing her some proper Goth attire and buying her dinner, she is introduced to the children of Orlando's night and a new alter-ego: Lilith.

Properly christened, she becomes friends with the vamps and acclimates to their rules, which are few, if any. When the kids return from a night out "hunting", meeting the new girl takes a back seat to the realization that one of their own is missing. "People come and go here," Adam, (the leader of the vampire clan) reminds them. But as time passes, the status-quo doesn't seem to be the case.

Adam desperately tries to hold his family together and get to the bottom of the murders while their numbers dwindle. He even reaches out to the police - already engrossed in the media frenzy that ensued. Bonds of friendship, love and ideologies are tested. But can Adam and Lilith, or even those they call brothers and sisters, be trusted? Who can help when the hunter is the only one taking the vampires seriously?

At The End Of Church Street resonates with a fierce intensity that masterfully taps every emotion we have. Hall gives us people, not characters; weaving the reader into a tale with an eerily relatable, palpable atmosphere. Multi-layered and multi-faceted, with high suspense, Hall's powerful voice blends these elements together, giving us a riveting novel that leaves the reader spell-bound.