![]() ![]() With around a dozen protagonists, it’s inevitable that some characters are more interesting than others. That’s a mighty ambitious premise to be sure, and McCammon pulls it off with a great deal of macabre gusto and only a smidge of the type of clumsiness you might expect from a writer who back in 1981 was still finding his footing. THEY THIRST also deals with a vampire takeover, only here the setting is the entire city of Los Angeles. The subject of that novel, you’ll recall, was vampires taking over a small town. Just as SWAN SONG owed more than a little something to yet (in my opinion) still outdid Stephen King’s THE STAND, THEY THIRST borrows from (unintentionally, McCammon claims) yet betters King’s SALEM’S LOT. ![]() In this early novel Robert McCammon accomplished something he’d repeat six years later in SWAN SONG: he outdid Stephen King. ![]()
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