Vampire’s Kiss
by Sonny Barker
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Pub Date Dec 29 2017 | Archive Date May 01 2018
Riverdale Avenue Books | 120 Days
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Description
First published in 1970, the gay pulp classic Vampire's Kiss, follows the transformation of Damon Sanger from an ambitious, married attorney to a gay vampire whose bodily libation of choice isn't blood.
During a restless night of solo barhopping, Damon accidentally wanders into The Cave, a gay nigthclub, and drunkenly goes home with hypnotic, handsome and red-lipped seducer Alan Drake. Alan makes short work of Damon's conviction that he's straight as an arrow, and Alan isn't just gay; he's also a vampire. Or is he? Damon can't decide whether his trysts with Alan have simply opened his eyes to his true desires, or whether he's under the influence of a supernatural fiend whose wildly exciting influence has inducted him into the ranks of the homosexual undead, doomed to roam the earth and convert other men.
Written with a light hand and a sly sense of humor, Vampire's Kiss follows Damon as he negotiates his secret life while pretending to be the ordinary suburban husband who enjoyed boozy barbecues with the neighbors and admiring curvaceous women. As Damon learns how to satisfy his new appetites and maintain his sanity, he conducts an ongoing, tongue-in-cheek examination of himself—he is a lawyer, after all—about everything from the morality of recruiting new vampires to whether he really has to give up the garlic he's always loved.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781626014343 |
| PRICE | $6.99 (USD) |
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Featured Reviews
Trevor W, Reviewer
I've never read a 70's porn/erotic novel before and I loved it. So different to the mm love/erotic novels being written now, this was a great read.
Devann M, Reviewer
It's incredibly hard for me to put together a review for this book because I've really never read anything quite like it. I read a lot of current LGBTIA titles but this is a reprint of a book from 1970 and it's definitely incredibly different than what I'm used to. The most obvious popular book that people are going to think of when they see this is Interview with the Vampire [it's even mentioned in the introduction here], but at the end of the day IwtV was a book written by a straight woman for other straight women and is really nothing like this at all. If I had to pick some popular form of media to compare this to I would probably choose the Rocky Horror Picture Show, although both IwtV and RHPS both came years after this book.
It's really almost impossible for me, a 28 year old woman, to put this book in the context of which it was written almost 50 years ago [wow], but I will say that the introduction in this edition definitely helps so don't skip it! I will also say that while modern readers do understand what 'pulp' and 'erotica' mean, the 70s apparently took that to an entirely new level. If I was given a physical copy of this book I think I would be hard pressed to find a single full page that doesn't contain some kind of synonym for penis. And somehow, despite being on the surface about 80 pages of pure porn, it still manages to tackle several social issues and be absolutely hilarious on top of that.
It's definitely interesting and I plan on trying to check out some more of these titles from this particular publisher. A lot of the writing seems dated by today's standards but it's still a lot of fun and I think it's interesting to see how far we have come with publishing LGBTIA books in the past 50 years.
Carrie A, Educator
So.... I'm going to be very honest about this. I had no idea what I was getting into. I see the word vampire and I click. I didn't know this was basically porn. While normally, I'm not the biggest fan of this kind of thing, I really enjoyed this one. It's a reprint from the 1970's and it's very different from the gay romance I've read for this day and time. It was kind of like stepping back into time. It's very short and I got through it in one read. If you're into gay vampire porn, this is for you! You'll freaking love it. Even if that usually isn't your thing, I would stay say give it a try, I mean it's really short, who knows, you may find a new genre to love.
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