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From Publishers Weekly Professing (in a brief author's note) his fondness for thegenuinely evil Nosferatu of classic vampire fiction, Wilson(_Gateways_) concocts a garish B-movie scenario, an expansion ofa 1990 novella with the same title, in which armies of the un-deaddecimate Europe and later make the New York metropolitan area theirprivate feeding trough. An organized human insurgency begins whenFather Joe Cahill, a recovering alcoholic, reclaims his desecrated NewJersey parish and joins forces with his activist niece, Lacey, andCarole Hanarty, a nun who makes explosives for her own vendetta withthe "Vichy" (i.e., human collaborators). When vampires chomp FatherJoe to suppress the revolt, he knows he has only two weeks before hisfull vampire conversion to launch a counterattack. All the novel'scharacters are as outsized and engaging as comic book heroes andvillains. Though Wilson intentionally invokes well-known vampireclich?©s?€"the repellant power of the cross, grisly death by sunexposure, etc.?€"he also works crafty new angles on his theme,among them vampire bloodlust paralleling the selfish excesses of humanMe-Generation types. Still, but for a few twists, there's little he

Who reads Midnight Mass?

Author

Wilson, F. Paul

Publisher

Macmillan

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780765307057

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Thriller

Rating

3.85 / 5 (2,233 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13