No one else has Dan Wells' hilarious new novella--it's not available in
print, in ebook, by mobile phone text or Victorian phonograph. Audible
is bringing it to you exclusively, for a limited time.
The basic premise is this: it's 1817, and a man named Frederick Whithers
is wallowing in jail for a crime he didn't commit, desperate to get out
so he can go and commit it for real. He fakes his own death and escapes
in a coffin, but when he gets to the graveyard and crawls out of the
coffin, somebody sees him and assumes he's a vampire. It's pretty much
all downhill from there. Frederick spends the rest of the book doing
everything he can to steal a massive inheritance from a dead man, all
the while running from constables, vampire hunters, ghouls, poets,
proper young ladies, highly improper young ladies, morticians,
mysterious figures, and the most pathetic collection of vampires to ever
disgrace a work of fiction.
The book is Extremely Silly: imagine a horror story, as written by Monty
Python, in the style of the old screwball comedies like The Producers,
What's Up Doc?, and Some Like it Hot, and then imagine that for some
reason it's also in the style of a Victorian frame story starring John
Keats and presented by a fake historian. A delightfully funny novel full
of witty dialogue brought to life by the narrative voice talents of Sean
Barrett.
