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99 Coffins: A Historical Vampire Tale

David Wellington (2007)

SubgenreDark Fantasy
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingR
Pages (Standard (250-400))
SeriesLaura Caxton #2
Setting
CSM age18+
Goodreads3.81

Content levels

ViolenceGraphic
Sexual contentNone
LanguageModerate

Protagonist archetypes

Duo / Partners

Synopsis

'Thrilling entertainment for readers who like their horror raw and bloody' (Publishers Weekly). This book is the second part in David Wellington's vampire trilogy.A hundred vampires wouldn't just be a problem. They would be an army. An army of blood-fuelled killing machines.Laura Caxton vowed never to face them again. The horror of what the vampires did is too close, the wounds too fresh. But when Jameson Arkeley, broken and barely recognisable, comes to her with an unfathomable, unholy discovery, her resolve crumbles.Arkeley leads Caxton to a tomb in Gettysburg recently excavated by a local archaeology professor. While the town, with its legendary role in the Civil War's worst battle, is no stranger to cemetaries, this one is remarkably, eerily different. In it lie 100 coffins, 99 of them occupied by vampires, who, luckily, are missing their hearts. But one of the coffins is empty and smashed to pieces.Who is the missing vampire? Does he have access to the 99 hearts that, if placed back in the bodies of their owners, could reanimate an entire bloodthirsty army? How did the vampires end up there, undisturbed and undiscovered for 150 years? The answer lies in Civil War documents that contain sinister secrets about the newly found coffins—secrets that Laura Caxton is about to uncover as she is thrown into a deadly, gruesome mission of saving an entire town from a mass invasion of the undead.

99 Coffins: A Historical Vampire Tale: content & age rating

Intended for adult readers (18+).

Extremely violent vampire horror with graphic bloodshed, body horror, and undead horror. The publisher describes it as 'raw and bloody' horror; the premise involves reanimating an army of Civil War-era vampires and mass killing.

What to know going in

This book has graphic violence, no sexual content, and moderate language. Content notes include graphic violence, gore, murder, death, and mass death (see the full list above).

Who'll love this

Teens who love horror and vampires will be drawn to the historical Civil War mystery and the race to stop an undead army.

Tags

HorrorHistorical FictionThrillerUrban Fantasy