Merging the Old World with the New, Manitou Blood creeps along the flesh with ice-slimed skeletal fingers bringing Romanian vampires, vampire gatherers and Native American history and magic together in a tale worthy of Poe. Masterton’s exacting sense of place and characterization breathes new and horrific life into Erskine’s New York City. Graham Masterton mines past gold with Manitou Blood, going back to Harry Erskine and his nemesis, Indian wonder worker Misquamacus. Harry realizes the dead aren’t about to stay dead for long. Harry’s spirit guide gives him a glimpse of the cause of the epidemic. Television reports say these same nightmares preceded the vampire epidemic sweeping the city. Emergency rooms become overrun with people encrusted with heavy duty sun block, burning from the sun and vomiting blood, blood that isn’t their own.īack in Harry’s run-down apartment, he reads the fortune of a young man experiencing nightmares. The mime is the first-but not the last-victim of a strange blood disorder. From rags to riches and back again, Harry is about to face an old enemy, one he was sure had been defeated and scattered to the four winds.Įlsewhere in New York City, a doctor takes a silver-painted, young mime vomiting up blood to the hospital. He returns to the psychic herbalism business, charming rich old ladies for his rent and Guinness. Harry Erskine’s wife Karen sent him packing. Just when you think it’s safe to walk the streets of New York City vampires surface from the shadows of 9/11. 'Masterton?s exacting sense of place and characterization breathes new and horrific life into Erskine?s New York City.' 'It?s one terror ride after another into undreamed of horror, mayhem and slinking-along-the-footsteps-of-reality fantasy.'

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