Night of the Living Rerun (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Book 4) (Mass Market Paperback)

by Arthur Byron Cover (Author) "Looking back, Buffy realized the entire adventure had begun long before she'd ever realized it..." (more)
Key Phrases: Sarah Dinsdale, Despised One, Samantha Kane (more...)

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A History Lesson?

As long as there have been vampires, there has been the Slayer. one girl in all the world, to find them where they gather and to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers.

As if real life wasn't already overflowing with vampire-staking, now Buffy has begun to dream about slaying! Night after night, it's the same thing. She's back with the Puritans, a Slayer on the trail of a witch. What can it mean?

Buffy gets a clue when Xander and Giles start acting like they have ancient alter egos. Now the stage is set for a symbolic replay of the night the Master was accidentally trapped in the other dimension.

Only this time, the Master wants a happy ending -- for himself. Buffy and her friends must pervent the Master from rewriting the script and escaping his supernatural prison before Sunnydale becomes history!

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 178 pages
• Publisher: Simon Spotlight Entertainment; 1st Printing edition (March 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671017152
• ISBN-13: 978-0671017156
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #767,379 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not True to Buffy, but fun for the Horror and S&S Buff, July 9, 2000

By A Customer

I didn't have trouble following this book, but I've been reading horror stories for over 30 years. The author doesn't have a good handle on the characters, but I didn't care. I've been an H.P. Lovecraft fan since I was 16, so I got a kick out of seeing the middle name of his good friend, Clark Ashton Smith, showing up, not to mention Giles consulting Eibon (A true Lovecraftian Evil Old Recluse will have the Book of Eibon amongst his forbidden tomes collection. Another of Lovecraft's friends, Robert E. [Ervin] Howard, is most famous for creating Conan the Barbarian, but he also created a fanatical Puritan adventurer who fought supernatural horrors. The name of that Puritan was Solomon Kane. That's why I laughed in delight over the dreams about the Puritan Slayer Samantha Kane and her Watcher, Robert Erwin. As a fan of "Kolchak the Night Stalker" [starring Darrin McGavin] from its first TV run, I chortled with glee when the even more hapless reporter Darryl MacGovern came on the scene. Readers who dislike Cotton Mather for his role in the Salem Witch Mockery-of-Justice will enjoy what happens to him in this book. Many of the other character names tease at my memory, but I haven't yet taken the time to look them up (worse, I left my notes at home!). Ooh -- almost forgot to mention how much I enjoyed the Master's dream of "Old Scratch." I found this book a very amusing romp and I suspect other horror fans will, too.

BTW, the scene where Samantha Kane is stalking after escaped witch Dim[n?]sdale [name from Hawthorne's THE SCARLET LETTER?], before she's gruesomely attacked by various body parts that refuse to be slain, it says Kane didn't even have a captor to keep her company. Shouldn't that have been "captive"?

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant!, October 12, 2000

By A Customer

I adored this book.I loved the part when Xander turned into that woman.I thought that when Buffy talked to the demon it was funny (I usually do)I loved how she was sarcastic as well.Some of it I didn't get like when these people said they'd talked to the witch's ghost and Giles said they'd made a mistake or something.I liked the discription of the demon because it sounded like it was disgusting and I love that sort of stuff.I also liked it when the zombies came to the cafe where Buffy was working and she said to a waitress "You'll forget about it." and the waitress replied "I'll bet you one steak dinner I don't." I would love to write a Buffy book because it's one of the only books where I can get away with writing gory stories.This book is also really good because of the way the writers discribed it.When they said abot the demon's minions though I thought they were like the minions from Anastasia and only until later on did I realize that they were vampires.My favourite part was the part where Buffy fought the demon.I liked the epilouge when Willow was asleep and she dreamed she was a man from the past.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps just another collector's item..., July 14, 1998

By A Customer

Arthur Byron Cover's "Night of the Living Rerun" is my least favorite book in the series to date. As a fan of the television show, I found numerous discrepancies when reviewed in parallel. Not only was the book difficult to read (I had to go back and reread portions of the book to follow the plot), but I think some of the characters were not portrayed accurately when compared to the television series. The plot centers around past lives and recurring history... basically a plot that has been gone over many times before. History repeats itself and so on. I do have to mention that Cover mentioned Cordelia and Angel, which seems to be a first in the history of this series... of course, the mentions are small and don't contribute to the plot. If you're a collector of the Buffy series, you'll want to get this book, but others might find it a hard read with an unsatisfactory plot.