| Brides of the Impaler (Leisure Fiction) | 
 enlarge | Author: Edward Lee
Publisher: Leisure Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 371122
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 340
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.1 x 1
ISBN: 0843958073
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780843958072
ASIN: 0843958073
Publication Date: August 26, 2008
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Product Description
Internationally published horror novelist Edward Lee unleashes his 37th book and his very first vampire novel! When a new couple moves into a New York brownstone, they find their ultimate dream house...until they go into the basement. Suddenly, a macabre nun is seen lurking about, with an entourage of lewd and gibbering homeless women who seem to KNOW what evil secret lurks in the bowels of the old house. As the couples' dreams turn to lust-stained nightmares, and the bodies of missing persons are found impaled, the basement's secret is revealed at last: the remnants of Dracula himself...
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 A disappointment to this Lee fan December 3, 2008
I was really looking forward to this book. Sadly, it was a real disappointment.
As other reviewers have noted, there is a lot of sex, but it is bland and repetitive. There are no scares. There is no gore. There is nothing disturbing or haunting about it. I hesitate to even call it horror. Worse yet, the plot is predictable and (frankly) not very interesting.
Descriptions of dreams are repeated over and over and over. The main characters are uninteresting, not very bright, and naive in unbelievable ways. Many of the mundane character and plot details are almost as unbelievable as the idea of Vlad Tepes as a vampire.
I love reading Edward Lee's books, but this one was simply horrible. His writing has never been perfect (far from it, in fact), but I have always found it entertaining, well paced, and fun. This one is just dull.
I hope his next book gets back to the type of stories he told in "Flesh Gothic" and his Hell series.
- Jesse
Mediocrity is [Not] Genuine November 1, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
A completely mediocre novel with rather mediocre sex scenes and a predictable plot. The first Edward Lee novel I read (Flesh Gothic) was a edgy but interesting read. Since then, I have become increasingly disillusioned with each work I buy. This is no exception. At this point, both the violence and the sex in these books seem gratiuitious, leaving nothing but a moderate undercurrent of sacrilege.
Not worth the money even if you're bored: I picked this up at the PX on base, and I am now realising I should have just picked up whatever John Saul's latest regurgitation is.
I rated this book two stars because there is no 1.5-star option, but honestly, two stars is something of a stretch. I didn't hate it, I just didn't care at all.
 Good Book - Worth Reading October 26, 2008
I liked the book, It has a good story line and is fun to read.
FINALLY, A FRESH TWIST ON VAMPIRES October 1, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Edward Lee's first vampire novel is a gory, erotic, mystery-stuffed ton of fun and pumps new "blood" into all things Draculean. I liked it even more than House Infernal which was great too. This is a must read for all horror fans!
 A Dracula story with not much Dracula September 28, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I've been reading a lot of Leisure Fiction's horror novels this year, and even before I read a page of Edward Lee's Brides of the Impaler, I had decided that, at the very least, it had the best title in the bunch. With the Impaler reference, it has to be a story about Dracula (a.k.a. Vlad the Impaler), it is also reminiscent of the old Hammer Films titles, particularly Brides of Dracula.
The horror allusions don't stop there, as Lee also names characters after Euro-horror cult figures Paul Naschy and Jess Franco among others and even has a Ketchum Hotel, an obvious nod to writer Jack Ketchum. So Lee pays his tribute to the genre, but is the book any good? My only other experience was the weakest story in the anthology Triage (with co-writers Ketchum and Richard Laymon); this was a more positive experience.
As the title hints, this is a Dracula story, though the character is off-stage for most of the novel, relegated to historical accounts by other characters. The villains are the title characters, an unappealing bunch of homeless women who are recruited by the mysterious New Mother to assist in a secret ritual. This ritual will involve, among other things, the brutal impaling of several people and the use of some ancient artifacts.
These artifacts are currently buried in the basement of the newly purchased home of Cristina Nichols and Paul Nasher. Paul is a loving fiance but otherwise a typical wealth-obsessed lawyer who wants the best of everything. Cristina is the designer of some morbid figurines that have become popular collectibles. Something in the house is affecting Cristina, giving her ideas for new figures and hypercharging her sex drive, but also giving her nightmares and putting her in trances.
Though the sex and violence is more than you would ever have seen in a Hammer Film, Brides of the Impaler does evoke memories of the studio's old Dracula films. But even you've never seen one of those movies, this is a nice read. Lee shows that you can write a good Dracula story without even much Dracula in it.
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