VAMPIRES OVERHEAD by Alan Hyder
1 rar file - 372 mg
VAMPIRES OVERHEAD with the original artwork
reproduced is one of the most purely fun novels I've ever
encountered, and I commend it highly to anyone that enjoys
supernatural thrillers. It's I AM LEGEND seen through a carnival
mirror (and written some twenty years earlier), if you like the
apocalyptic tales by Simon Clark, Tim Lebbon, and Stephen Laws, you'll
probably like this.
The author of this forgotten classic of horror fiction was Alan Hyder. As best as can be determined, Vampires Overhead was Hyder’s only work of horror fiction. His name was not listed in the massive Bleiler Index to Supernatural Fiction or Mike Ashley’s comprehensive guides to horror writers of the past century. Even more telling, Hyder did not have any fiction in the Creeps Short Story Library published by Philip Allan, of which Vampires Overhead was part of the series. We were left to conclude that Hyder was a one-idea wonder who sold his one spectacular story to the Creeps series and then left the publishing world forever.
The concept for Vampires Overhead is a unique one and definitely something out of science fiction, not fantasy or the supernatural. The Earth is overrun by a cloud of monsters from outer space. These monsters, numbering in the hundreds of millions, are some sort of cosmic vampire bat and they arrive on Earth hungry for blood. No explanation is given for the origin of the bats or how they survive in outer space. They just are. Vampires Overhead is a cosmic disaster novel, very much similar to Garrett Serviss’s The Second Deluge, published nearly thirty years earlier. But where Serviss has the Earth engulfed by a gigantic cosmic water cloud and most everyone drowned, Hyder imagines a swarm of near indestructible bats attacking humanity. It is an unforgettable novel of interstellar menace! Read by Milton Bagby.
Chapter 1: The Coming Of Bingen
Chapter 2: The Tunnel Beneath The Brewery
Chapter 3: The First Of The Vampires
Chapter 4: The River Through The Dead City
Chapter 5: The Finding of the Screamer
Chapter 6: The Flight Across The Marshes
Chapter 7: The Valley Of Security
Chapter 8: The Killing Of The Stranger
Chapter 9: The Opal Ring
Chapter 10: The Death of Bingen
Chapter 11: The Future!
Thanks to original writer for parts of above text
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As always, thank you Rick! You are truly generous.
Thank you Rick!
Thanks for sharing.
I have Space Vampires in Hardback I got from a used bookstore ages ago and dig that Chimp!
MANY THANKS RICK!! Hope you are doing ok my friend. As always THANK YOU!
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