VAMPIRE MAKER [Hardcover]

Michael Schiefelbein (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 19, 2010

Victor Decimus has been a vampire for over 2,000 years. Once a Roman Legionnaire, for millennia Victor has remained a step or two ahead of rivals, would-be executioners, and the mysterious Dark Kingdom, which sets the rules for vampires' existence. Having left New York and his lover Paul Lewis - the vampire he made then abandoned to escape the vengeance of the Dark Kingdom, Victor sets himself up again - with his thrall - in New Orleans. 

But in New Orleans, his thrall becomes the point of a new, larger conflict. On the one hand, a local priest seeks to break Victor's hold over the thrall; on the other, the Dark Kingdom fears that Victor is going to become a Vampire Maker - one who continually creates new vampires, while refusing to take his place on the next plain of existence and thus creating an imbalance in the powers of the universe. And between both walks Victor, determined to have his own way, exerts control and remains defiant to the end.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

The fourth Victor Decimus vampire tale picks up four years after 2005's Vampire Transgression. In post-Katrina New Orleans, troubled new priest Charles Boisvert tries to purge his homosexual feelings with the help of therapist Dr. Beauchamp. The appearance of distressed yet beguiling young stranger Kyle at Charles's church jeopardizes the success of the treatment. Charles's family and even his immortal soul are endangered when vampire Victor begins a tug of war for Kyle's attentions while the Dark Kingdom, a sort of vampire government, tries to keep Victor from becoming a rogue vampire maker. Scenes of mostly tame gay sex have less of a chance of offending than the intimations that Jesus, called Joshu, was once Victor's lover. Vampire fans will enjoy familiar tropes with a few tweaks, and flashbacks make the episode so accessible to newcomers that returning readers may get a little bored. (Jan.)
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"As well-written and powerful a story as one will find. Its depths are as thought-provoking as they are spine-tingling...shocking and profound."

--X-Factor on Vampire Thrall

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition (January 19, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312363192
• ISBN-13: 978-0312363192
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 6.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,220,680 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars He's bored with the characters so you will be too, March 26, 2010

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M. Ziolkowski (Atlanta/Chicago) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: VAMPIRE MAKER (Kindle Edition)

I've been a big fan of this writer's endeavors within this series because of some features -- the drive of the prantogonist Victor (to coin a term) and its erotic projection -- and in spite of others such as the choice to root Victor's actions & motivations in a failed dalliance with an historical figure in a religiopolitical context and conflict.

Yeah, that all sounds academic, but when these books were hot, they were hot!!

Now you just feel the author's angst in just filling the page to contractual minimum. And instead of doing so by cheap, romance novel, prurient tropes it's by misplaced horticultural surveys. Past novels reveled in what was happening in Victor's S&M clubs, here you get lengthy description of the landscaping outside.

The book plain feels forced to have been written. I hope I'm right about the author struggling to fulfill some contract about these characters, because the alternative is his wholly losing the ability to spin an engaging story.

5.0 out of 5 stars Loved It! Love the Intelligent Slant on Vampire Victor..and.., June 29, 2011

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Jane (Canada) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Vampire Maker (Paperback)

Did I read the same books as everyone else?! I loved it! I love Schefelbein's intelligent and theological approach to his Vampires...specifically Victor.
Victor....spurned by Jesus himself..or Joshu as he was known at the time. He never got over it...plans to revenge..avenge...forget...renounce...his Jesus..his Joshu.

His eternal life is governed by his well-spring of emotions which he can't get past.
Now in New Orleans he meets a priest who is questioning his sexual orientation. Just what Victor loves! He loves his thrall too.

The descriptive narrative of New Orleans is excellent as it is just after the flood.

The new characters are well-fleshed out. Besides Victor, we have the priest and Victor's thrall whom Victor wants to make his vampire.

Victor life(excuse the pun) is hanging...he won't ascent...and therein lies the problem.

As usual Schefelbien makes the Catholic Church, the priest and Joshu...Victor's nemisis.

I recommend all the Schefelbien Vampire books for those who value an intelligent theological argument and excellent settings from around the world.

3.0 out of 5 stars Didn't live up to expectation, April 26, 2010

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Michael Girmonde (Lima, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: VAMPIRE MAKER (Kindle Edition)

Not even close to his previous books. This one actually was corney. Not a good read.