Bloodletting

De: C. Dennis Moore

Narrado por: Derrick Heisey

In a time when the undead bloodsuckers of legend have become a shadow of their former selves thanks to novels like Twilight and the Stackhouse series, horror author C. Dennis Moore returns the icons to their former glory with his collection of six short stories, Bloodletting (previously published as Icons to Ashes).

Featuring three previously published stories plus three all-new tales, Bloodletting doesn't shy away for one moment from the bloodshed and ferocity of these killing machines. A young man is seduced into a perfect blend of sex and death by his dead girlfriend. A woman returns home for the first time in decades, but some old enemies can’t leave well enough alone. In a world where vampires have equal rights, one man’s attempt to start a new life free of the bloodsuckers proves too good to be true. Douglas wakes up battered and bruised in an alley, with the severed head of someone he doesn’t know lying nearby.

If you’re itching to see some good old-fashioned killing machines again, Bloodletting has everything for the vampire-lover in you.

©2022 Charles Moore (P)2025 Charles Moore

Vampires, lots of Vampires!

I was offered a review copy of the audiobook of Bloodletting, and as I normally do, I began listening before ever looking at the title’s description. Why, it’s a book by C Dennis Moore. It’s gonna be horror so who needs a description? Right?

The stories sounded familiar, so I looked at the description and after I did a bit of sleuthing in my Goodreads, I saw I had read these stories four years ago to the month in Icons to Ashes.

Well, having Derrick Halsey’s narration bring me a second go round with each of these six stories made them just as entertaining as when I first read them four years ago.

Bloodletting is a series of short Vampire stories, and in Mr. Moore’s normal fashion, each story is well developed and full of surprises for his reader. If you enjoy horror stories or vampire stories, you owe it to yourself to grab a copy of Bloodletting and settle in for an enjoyable read or get the audiobook and let Derrick do the reading for you.