The Vampire Circus: First Serialized Installment, by Rod Kierkegaard Jr
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Coco and Zuzu—based on the legendary Colette and Josephine Baker—are twins, separated at birth and brought up in Switzerland and Kentucky. Reunited as young women in the demi-monde of Parisian nude revues and houses of prostitution, they are forced to continue in their genetic heritage of vampirism, caused by a mutation to the syphilis spirochete. Menaced by the oldest vampire still living, the shadowy Maître du Monde, and stalked by Coco's lover Willy, a fifteen-year-old Vatican vampire hunter, as well as Johnny Durango, a formerly famous, now vengeful, “cowboy detective” fresh from an Arizona penitentiary, the two sisters together embark upon a phantasmagorical journey into international film stardom set against the vivid tapestry of 1920s Paris life. If Proust and Zane Grey had collaborated on writing a sprawling erotic vampire epic brought to life in the worlds of Carnivale and Moulin Rouge, The Vampire Circus might be the result. The romantic and episodic style of the story arc is based on old-fashioned “penny dreadful” serials of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, such as Fantômas or Varney the Vampire.
The Vampire Circus: First Serialized Installment, by Rod Kierkegaard Jr- Amazon Sales Rank: #1057259 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-06-01
- Released on: 2015-06-01
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Will Leave You Craving More By G. Miki Hayden In the early 1920s, aging cowboy Johnny Durango walks out of Arizona’s Florence State Penitentiary, where he has been incarcerated for multiple homicides. As he tells pal Wyatt Earp, who picks him up in a new motorcar, he didn’t go crazy and kill all those circus folk—they were vampires. Now Johnny aims to travel to France where the vampires who killed his family were from—to finish the work he set out to do.At the same time, in Paris, two beautiful young women meet in a shop. Staring at one another is like staring in a mirror. They can’t be twins, can they?And then in Bavaria, Germany, we find the Master of the World, a mysterious and powerful chieftain of the undead, whose intimate and devoted adept is destined to lead his country and continent to death and destruction: Herr Adolf Hitler.With all these major players in place, novelist Rod Kierkegaard, Jr. gets down to his bloody and entertaining business of turning the tension up.The original modern vampire tale that enthralled Victorian England, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, was a story based in moral rectitude that showed evil in all its horrifying, demonic, and coffin-ridden iniquity. Even in our own age, Anne Rice’s Interview with a Vampire exposed the “species” in its dark, appalling depravity. Yet the trend over time has been to excuse the lovable, loving blood-imbiber, ala the glittering boyfriend of the Twilight series.Kierkegaard doesn’t quite bring us back to the nasty thing we witness in the movie Nosferatu, a worm that has crawled out of a dank and long-abandoned grave, but he does proceed with an understanding that vampires aren’t a life-form equal to human, and his protagonist Durango won’t be impeded by society’s skepticism about the phenomenon. Durango (and young Willy de Groote, an experienced vampire-hunter himself), like Dracula hero Professor Van Helsing, understands exactly what despicable vermin he’s up against.Moreover, Kierkegaard does what any author writing an historical ought to do (but many fail at): He includes historical references front and center. His research is admirable—detailed but also exuding charm and wit.This story then has all the elements of the masterful and groundbreaking Bram Stoker version of the vampire folklore—including moral perversion and moral indignation—though the telling here is both erotic and intellectual. Kierkegaard develops several relationship threads in a multi-part, very layered story that will eventually bring us to... well, only Kierkegaard can say, as the final part hasn’t been presented yet.The author has set before us word swallowers quite a heady brew, well worth putting an initial straw into for a taste, one tantalizing, carmine drop at a time.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Good Ideas, Sadly Lacking Execution By Amazon Customer First, thanks to Curiosity Quills for the review copy. Second, sorry for the review. Third, this is a 2.5 on my site, which Amazon does not allow me to select.I once read a trilogy by Kevin J Anderson set in the Star Wars universe. It was so bad he became, briefly, known as Kevin J AllBran, as he irritated the, well, you know, out of me. He redeemed himself, and then some, with his amazing work with Brian Herbert on the Dune prequels. And other works. But oy, that Star Wars was rough.So, I am willing to give authors a second shot. In the case of Vampire Circus, and author Rod Kierkegaard, Jr., a third shot. I previously read his books The God Particle and The Department of Magic.This may make the last of him, though. In The Vampire Circus, Mr. Kierkegaard has once again delivered an intriguing story idea executed in an exceedingly poor fashion.Set in 1923, The Vampire Circus is the story of one Johnny Durango, recently released from prison for murdering the members of a traveling circus some 20 years earlier. The circus, he maintains, killed his family (among others), and were vampires. So there's that. He is met by Wyatt Earp, hangs out for a time in Tom Mix's western town, and plots how to finish the job of killing the titular circus.Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, a young vampire hunter is learning the trade from his uncle, a priest; a French detective is having to look into the murders of some individuals who are fairly sharp of tooth, and a pair of sisters are reunited. There is also a vampire running about in the background, but he honestly isn't up to much yet.Insert some sex, betrayal, sexual betrayal, and you have the book.And that's the problem. I get that you can't give it all away in the first of what looks to be a trilogy. Nor would I ask you to. However, while there is action, and enough movement to avoid stagnation, that's kinda it. There is not much more to be happening - nothing ties up, nothing is really established, and there is no circus. Really. The circus exists, at this time, in flashback only.I would be happier if there was no circus at all, and it was pure metaphor for the characters being manipulated by the single vampire in the story. But that does not seem to be where Kierkegaard is headed.Like his other books, there is a sense of true amazement being just out of reach. Perhaps less sex - the sex in this one is very oddly not believable - and more focus on making the book read better would help. The idea - that is good, solid, and seems like it was thought out. The execution just isn't up to it.I also have some issues with the lack of research here. A quick spat of Wikisearching and some Google-fu cleared it up for me, I wish Kierkegaard had bothered. These are pretty simple:• Durango's pistol is a Colt .45, not Colts. The company was founded by Sam Colt. As an aside, that phrasing is usually a reference to the M1911 automatic, the classic 'Colt .45' service pistol. Which was released while Durango was in prison, so he couldn't have one to give back to him. Before this, the most likely pistol to be called a 'Colt .45' would have been the Colt Single Action Army, released in 1873, or the M1878 revolver. Those seem to be the only .45 handguns produced by Colt prior to the 1911.• The partner of the Sundance Kid was Butch Cassidy not 'Casaday'.• $12,000,000 in 1923 is about $166,000,000 today, more than enough to live several lives on. Very little that couldn't buy in 1923 or now. In fact, that's more than half the cost of a South Dakota class battleship, which clocked in at $21 million.I could also get into the lack of serial feeling in this 'classic serial novel'. But that feels like kicking a down horse. Overall, the story was interesting in concept, but not good in execution. The ideas behind the book were superb, and poorly executed. Perhaps a co-author?
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