Teenage Timberwolves: Lust for Lightning [Paperback]

James Havoc (Author), Daniele Serra (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 15, 2009

In 1795, the survivors of a murderous torture orgy at the Château de Selligny in France are attacked by rabid wolves. Badly bitten, Guillaume Garou ends up in New Orleans, one hundred years later, as a cannibal necrophile recruited by the Knights of the White Camelia to carry out acts of atrocity and carnage. One hundred years after that, he emerges as the leader of a lightning-addicted gang of graveyard shape-shifters, roaming the southern states in search of flesh and bones and vying for survival in a nightmarish grindhouse underworld of vampiric sex covens, serial killers, hellfire lunatics, sadistic bounty-hunters, acid-damaged circus freaks, and the resurrected spectres of his former masters. TEENAGE TIMBERWOLVES: LUST FOR LIGHTNING is the new graphic novel of extreme horror from artist Daniele Serra and author James Havoc, in full colour throughout.

Editorial Reviews

Review

This is the supreme treat for all pulp comic-book obsessives searching for the extreme zone of death-ecstasies, vertiginous time-loops, teen-sex lust-furore and sheer meat-excess. An unprecedented sensory exploration extending far beyond the boundaries of comic-art, manga and bande dessinee, Teenage Timberwolves is part raw autopsy-report, part film-art document from hell, exquisitely dripping with incendiary venom. Drenched in the blood of those infernal heroes of the contemporary moment, Sade and Artaud, it will be an immediate cult item for all suicide-girls, otaku-heads, vampire-punks, electric-chair addicts and dedicated seekers of oblivion. --Stephen Barber, cultural historian and author

Francis Bacon wasn t allowed to join the Surrealist movement because he wasn t able to fall back on the undefined prizes of the polite imagination. And Havoc, exactly like Bacon, doesn t leave room for students comfortable with theory over lust, madness without commitment, secrets at the price of threat. Every word that James Havoc writes is sex. The sentences always murder. Get it? Havoc is the most compulsively vivid writer I know of ­ precise, vicious and as sexually exciting as Burroughs, Artaud and Genet when the pleb excuses finally explode into crystal clear amp-eyed shards.! --Peter Sotos, musician and author

As someone who is in the horror business I have seen many levels of fright... Daniele Serra's Bleeding Edge art work takes this story to new heights of terror! --Tim Gore, Special Effects Artist and Designer

About the Author

James Havoc is English and began as an experimental writer for Creation Books in 1989, publishing 3 short novellas and some fragments. His work as an experimental writer is collected in the anthology BUTCHERSHOP IN THE SKY (Creation, 1999). He recently translated the Marquis de Sade's 120 DAYS OF SODOM (Solar Books, 2008) and has now started a new phase as a comic-book writer, and TEENAGE TIMBERWOLVES is his first graphic novella and first new work for a decade. He lives in Manchester, England.

Product Details

• Paperback: 72 pages
• Publisher: Creation Oneiros (December 15, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1902197275
• ISBN-13: 978-1902197272
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 6.7 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,434,762 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)