IRobert, my love, there isn't much time. This will be my last communication, unless by some chance I survive... I have tried to report everything as it happened, so there can be no doubt about my veracity. I have to hurry or the sun will go down, and I will have to deal with this menace in the darkaHe has some plan in New York, that's clear. He is a form of terrorist; but his terror is strange. It's like a virus, and I have itaHe has put something terrible inside of me./I I/I Evangeline Harker, Associate Producer on television news magazine IThe Hour/I, is sent to Transylvania to scout out a possible story on a notorious Eastern European crime boss named Ion Torgu. But she finds the true nature of Torgu's activities to be far more monstrous than she could have imagined. In the New York office that once stood in the shadow of the Twin Towers, Evangeline's disappearance causes uproar and a wave of guilt and recrimination. Then suddenly, months after her disappearance, she's found convalescing in a Transylvanian monastery, her memory seemingly scrubbed. But then who was sending e-mails in her name? And what do those crates delivered to the office contain? And why does the show's sound system appear to be infected with some strange aural virus? As a very dark Old-World atmosphere deepens in the halls of one of America's most trusted television programmes, its employees are forced to confront a threat beyond their wildest imaginings. Written in the form of diary entries, e-mails and therapy journals, FANG LAND manages both to be a genuinely frightening vampire novel in the grand tradition and a biting commentary on the way we live and work now.
Industry Reviews
A novel about a monster that evokes all the sadness, brutality and hideous glamour of human depravity. It's about the abyss, and the big hole in Lower Manhattan, and the strange, dark, funny stuff in each of us. It'll grab you and not let go until it's done with you -- Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife
With wit and fury, John Marks describes a media culture so obsessed with image that it is powerless to resist the malevolent force of true evil. There are several monsters in Fangland, but the most dangerous ones appear every night, smiling on your television screen -- John Twelve Hawks, author of The Traveller
Love and death, sex and violence, satiric wit and genuine horror: Fangland has it all. Much more than a modern gothic thriller, John Marks's novel is, at its dark heart, a meditation on the nature of good and evil. I was thoroughly creeped out... and enjoyed every minute of it -- Keith Donohue, author of The Stolen Child
An unforgettable reimagining of Dracula for the 21st century. It takes a rare talent to make a seductive, perhaps even murderous female protagonist into a symbol of a strong modern woman, but John Marks has done just that. Ambitious, career-minded, yet vulnerable, Evangeline Harker is the anchor to an equally ambitious and powerful novel -- Mitch Cullin, author of Tideland and A Slight Trick of the Mind
This inventive re-working of Bram Stoker's Dracula - written, like the original, in epistolary form - may be modern in its setting ... but at its heart, this is old-fashioned Gothic horror * Daily Mail *
