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by John Marks (Author)
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  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage (5 April 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099502771
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099502777
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 190,530 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Daily Mail

"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."


Times

'This is a vastly entertaining piece of modern gothic'
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Vampire Novel Like No Other, 1 May 2007
By L. Ellis "be_found" (London, England) - See all my reviews
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I will confess I have a soft spot for vampire books, trouble I'm annoyed by the way authors like Anne Rice and Laurell K Hamilton have saturated the market with stories that consist of dark sexy vampires and annoying heroines. 'Fangland' is therefore a revelation in its take on the classic vampire tale and its writing style. Told through varying viewpoints and styles (diary entries, emails and second person) the threat builds up as the old world of Romania sneaks its way into a modern New York TV studio, still recovering from the demons of 9/11. Highly recommended.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Imaginative and effective, 17 Oct 2007
By Blackheart (Cheltenham-UK) - See all my reviews
This is the best modern updating of the vampire legend that I have read- I picked it up at a reduced price, and was expecting it to be another of those books where the characters endlessly look for 'logical explanations' when corpses start piling up exsanguinated with bite marks on their throats, but believe me, it's head and shoulders above that. It takes Bram Stoker's Dracula as a template in a playful way, but wrong foots the reader by jettisoning garlic and crucifixes in favour of much more wide ranging definition of horror, and indeed evil, human evil. It doesn't quite manage a climax to match the creeping unease of a build up, but is still a very good piece of work that I would recommend to anybody who fancies an intelligent and literate vampire tale.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Lacking bite, 3 Aug 2008
By sft (UK) - See all my reviews
This book promised so much but delivered very little. It's slow to start, and the first 60% is bogged down with too much character-based plot development. This may seem like a non sequiter when discussing a novel but here the character subplots actually impede the story arc by reining back the narrative just as it starts to get interesting. For once, less would have been more. Marks also uses some curiously idiomatic vocabulary that is sometimes too florid and serves only to obfuscate his meaning.

As a loose analogue of Bram Stoker's Dracula, Fangland fails to match up to the original, which is a classic. None of Mark's characters elicit the fascination or sympathy that Stoker's do. There is none of the precipitous dread that Stoker evokes, and the use of correspondence to tell parts of the story is less effective here.

Sadly, the denouement also lets the reader down. The final scenes are simply not credible, even in what is basically a fantasy (Marks goes to some trouble to deny any supernatural element to the characters, but I can't help but wonder if this isn't a genre snobbery thing).

The author deserves credit for attempting to update the Dracula story for the 21st century, and for adopting a similar structure to the original when doing so. It's a shame that the result isn't more successful.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Middling modern vampire thriller that loses the plot
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1.0 out of 5 stars Over hyped, hollow horror without a single thrill--avoid it!
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