The Feasting Dead
by John Metcalfe
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Something is wrong with Colonel Habgood's young son Denis. Some mysterious force seems to be sapping his physical health, and his behaviour has become oddly evasive and deceptive. Habgood suspects the pernicious influence of Raoul, a sinister handyman with whom Denis has become infatuated, believing that the man may be corrupting and defiling his son. But even after Raoul's departure, the troubles continue, and Denis's strength continues to wane. In an old book of medieval legends, his show more father finds a possible, if implausible, answer in stories of a nameless horror from beyond the grave that feasts on the young in order to return to life. Or could what's happening to Denis have any connection to an unexplained death in the attic turret nearly eighty years ago? And isn't there something strange about the scarecrow out in the fields, which seems, barely perceptibly, to have moved . . . ? show lessTags
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Despite a dragging middle section that involves a lot of hand wringing, a novel (actually novella) take on the vampire tale. A page turner otherwise, anyone except the most ponderous reader will blaze through this slim volume in one sitting. It's odd that this was never reprinted until Valancourt brought it out. Perhaps it was just too long for most anthologies. A shame since most "best of" vampire anthologies have plenty of dross well below this.
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- Original publication date
- 1954
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