"Thrilling, edgy, and scary as hell, Matthew Quinn Martin's NIGHTLIFE is an outstanding debut and––along with Justin Cronin's THE PASSAGE and Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse novels––it's also one of the most original takes on the vampire novel I've ever read."
Description
For centuries an ancient evil has slept beneath the streets of New Harbor. This Halloween, it wakes up.
An action-packed debut horror novel from talented new writer Matthew Quinn Martin, Nightlife pits a feisty bartender and a mysterious loner against bloodthirsty terrors as alluring as they are deadly.
Nightclub bartender and serial heartbreaker Beth Becker might be a cynic. But when her best friend goes missing Halloween night, Beth knows it’s up to her to find out what happened.
Her quest will take her on an odyssey through the crumbling city of New Harbor, Connecticut. Along the way she meets a homeless prophet warning of something he calls the “Night Angel”—a bloodthirsty creature that feeds on the forgotten. And she will form an unlikely bond with a hunted stranger who knows all too well what stalks the streets at night.
The strange man tells Beth the hideous truth about the nightmare creatures that have haunted mankind’s imagination for eons—creatures the world calls vampires. Together they are the only hope for New Harbor, but to defeat what lurks in the shadows they’ll have to conquer something far stronger than fear—their own desires.
Reviews
"Doesn’t get any darker than this; you can actually feel the blood spatter. Martin knows how to grab readers and not let go until he’s scared them witless. NIGHTLIFE is the gutsiest debut I’ve read in a long time." - James Patrick Kelly, Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards.
"Matthew never falls into traps or cliches. If anything, he takes them, wraps his hands around their necks, and throttles them until they fall limp."
"Wait...your book has monsters in it? ACTUAL monsters? Where can I buy it? Like right now."
