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    Beastnights

    By Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

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    A Vietnam vet haunted by dark secrets joins the hunt for a savage monster that’s slaughtering innocent women in the bloody East Bay night

    Aaron Holliman returned from the jungles of Vietnam a changed man. An ex–intelligence officer at the height of the Southeast Asian conflict and a brutalized former prisoner of the Viet Cong, Holliman has experienced enough violence and horror to last a dozen lifetimes, yet he is willing to lend his expertise and uncanny insights to beleaguered police departments struggling to solve gruesome, perplexing murders. Now, with an uncommonly savage rapist/murderer prowling the parks and wild lands of San Francisco’s East Bay, the cops need Holliman’s unique skills more than ever.
     
    But there is something distinctly inhuman about this killer who shatters his victims’ bones and tears their flesh to bits—a monstrosity that seems to have emerged from Holliman’s most terrible nightmares. The hunt for a bloodthirsty beast through the shadows is suddenly testing the very limits of the haunted ex-soldier’s strength and sanity, inspiring blackouts and bringing back brutal images and memories that would be best left forgotten. Worst of all, the chase feeds Holliman’s darkest fears: that there is nothing he can do to end the slaughter . . . and that the monster is much closer than he thinks.


    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Media
    Release dateSep 1, 2015
    ISBN9781504018975
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    Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

    Chelsea Q. Yarbro is the first woman to be named a Living Legend by the International Horror Guild and is one of only two women ever to be named as Grand Master of the World Horror Convention (2003). In 1995, Yarbro was the only novelist guest of the Romanian government for the First World Dracula Congress, sponsored by the Transylvanian Society of Dracula, the Romanian Bureau of Tourism, and the Romanian Ministry of Culture. Yarbro is best known as the creator of the heroic vampire the Count Saint-Germain. With her creation of Saint-Germain, she delved into history and vampiric literature and subverted the standard myth to invent the first vampire who was more honorable, humane, and heroic than most of the humans around him. She fully meshed the vampire with romance and accurately detailed historical fiction, and filtered it through a feminist perspective that made both the giving of sustenance and its taking of equal erotic potency. A professional writer since 1968, Yarbro has worked in a wide variety of genres, from science fiction to Westerns, from young adult adventure to historical horror. A skeptical occultist for forty years, Yarbro has studied everything from alchemy to zoomancy, and in the late 1970s worked occasionally as a professional tarot card reader and palmist at the Magic Cellar in San Francisco.

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      Well, this definitely took me longer to read than most books lately. While I enjoyed this dark tale by Yarbro, I couldn't help but feel as if I knew how it was going to turn out. That's not always a bad thing though, sometimes the brilliance lies in the journey. The writing is very good with well drawn characters and a fairly involving plot. My only complaint would be that the ending when it finally came was so abrupt, I felt as if the editor said there was a word limit and held the author to it (possibly, at gunpoint). The story seemed to almost meander along at some points and then BAM! (apologies to Emeril) there was the end.