Midnight Mass

By: F. Paul Wilson

Narrated by: Jamie Renell

Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins

Publisher's summary

Vampires have always lived in Eastern Europe. But with the fall of the Soviet Union, they began to spread across the continent, then the world, turning whole populations into vampires - or human cattle. Having overrun India, the far East, and the great cities of North and South America, the forces of Night are now spreading into the countryside to consolidate their conquest.

In a town on the New Jersey shore, the vampires have just arrived, along with their human henchmen, the cowboys, who round up human cattle for the overlords in return for the promise of eternal life - later. For the vampires wish only a few of their own kind to rule, and feed. The rest of humanity are to be helpless herds, the source of the blood of life.

Falsely accused of abuse, Father Joe is drunk in a basement waiting for the end. His superior has betrayed the local Catholic congregation and become a vampire. Sister Carolyn has become a formidable killer of cowboys and vampires. Joe's niece, escaped from the conquest of New York, has made her way south to find him. Brought together by Rabbi Zev Wolpin, who is shaken by the vampires’ fear of the cross and holy water, they plan their resistance. Against all odds, they discover that there just might be a way for humanity to really fight back. But first they will have to kill the vampire king of New York.

©2004 F. Paul Wilson (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing

Yikes

I’m usually a huge F Paul Wilson fan, LOVE all his books... just not this one. Too much horrible content. (he goes into graphic detail of how a young boy is brutally tortured and murdered, this is what sets the tone for the book)
Bottom line, I wasn’t a fan and the book left me feeling disturbed and upset.

Christian’s Unite 🤣

The disdain and side eyes F. Paul Wilson gives to any religious belief outside Christianity is palpable and sickening. Especially religious beliefs with too many brown people… this guy!! 🤣🙄

If you ordered Salem's Lot from WISH...

This book reminds me of what would happen if you ordered Salem's lot from wish. The story also rides on the back of stereotypical characters like the drunk Irish priests, the hooker with a heart of gold (shes actually a nun playing hooker), and the extreme feminist lesbian. The author also manages to turn out Christian propaganda while taking a massive dump on everybody else's religion, and wagging a stern finger at the Atheists and Agnostics. He also manages to be Islamaphobic, slightly racist, and even manages to slip in a gang rape scene into the book, where the extreme feminist lesbian wakes up from a violent assault that leaves her bleeding from every orifice.

This book however does remind remind me of Stephen King's work "On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft" specifically because there is a passage in that book that says that reading bad writing should inspire potential authors because if someone with bad writing got published and got paid for their work, and you know that your work is a lot better there is hope and you should be inspired by bad writers. This guy is one of those writers.

In that sense this book should serve as inspiration to all unpublished authors that there is hope because somebody published this book, and the author got paid, and this book was not in any way shape or form a good read.

Christian super hero

You can smell the Christian libertarian all over this. He claims that he was inspired by Salems Lot inspired him, but the heart of the power of cross in Salem’s Lot is that it’s the power of belief that powers the cross wielded by the priest. Faith of ANY kind could defeat evil. The fact that Christian neighborhoods do better in this story just shows how loaded this story is. There are better books that involve Christian undertones. The story is ok other than that, a little corny but a fun concept. I was intrigued enough to finish, it could have used some nuance.

A classic vampire story in our modern world

Wilson never fails to impress. Wilson has taken classic vampire lore and intertwined it into a story of our modern world. This is another easy to read book for one to get lost in from Wilson.

One of my absolute favorite books!

One of my absolute favorite books! I have read it dozens of times had to purchase several copies and I'm very excited to now have it and in audio format!

Good Vampire Story

I read "The Keep" by F. Paul Wilson back in the '80s. It was a terrifying pseudo-vampire tale that compelled me to keep the lights on all night long.

While "Midnight Mass" is based on typical vampire lore, the three main characters are well-developed and likeable and the ending is a good one.

Honestly good idea not well done

Really weird how this guy described women’s body’s. It’s just super uncomfortable and takes away from the story.

Great Story

Kind of a old fashioned vampire book, where vampires are evil and humans are good. Just with an interesting twist. Heavy on the cathicism, with not much room for other religious veiws even goes so far as to blatenly blasphem other religions....So if you are easily offended by such things probably shouldn't read this. I'm not catholic and I remember it's just a good book not a world view.

unoriginal and narrow minded. a waste of time.

this is what happens when an old white man with a pinched pathetic view tries to copy the greats. there is no originality and completely relies on tropes and cliches to build characters. it has pretentious overtones and is, in all honesty, not worth the time.

SUCH A WELCOME SURPRISE

I purchased this book because, essentially, I'll buy anything with vampires in it. To say that I was surprised is an understatement. It is fantastic, better even, in my humble opinion, than Salem's Lot, which I read at least twice a year.

Incredible stuff.

A surprise!

The reviews that cast doubt on the worth of this book and is narrator are baffling. It's a gripping tale, well read, with a satisfying end. I'm glad that i take bad reviews with a pinch of salt: I would have missed this gem.

Fantastic

The best vampire novel in a very long time. I only with there was more to come.

Not the same as the Netflix series but still great

Great narration, familiar story to begin.

Two priests and one church in a vampiric apocalyptic world. Very similar to the start of the Netflix series of the same name but a very different story.

Well narrated, well written on an 3asy to digest level.
A must for fans of Salem's Lot and I Am Legend.

Tiresome

The choice of protagonist was interesting, but sadly the book didn't grab my attention and grew tiresome quickly.

Well Read Pulp

Traditional vampires, classic pulp action, and a fine performance. What more could we want?

if you like walking dead and vampires

you'll love this!
I enjoyed everything minutes of it and the narrator was brilliant!

Back to basics ...

As it says in the publisher's blurb, this is a good, solidly old-school vampire story in the tradition of classics like "Salem's Lot" "The Strain" and Robert McKimmon's "They Thirst", and is every bit as action packed, enjoyable and un-put-down-able.

a run of the mill vampire apocalypse

if you like Netflix's Vampires, the Guillermo del Toro books, or the passage by Justin Cronin... you will probably like this. fairly well performed too.

Great homage to the classic vampire stories

I enjoyed this from start to finish, liked the fact the author went with all the classic traits of a vampire but didn’t make it seem silly. Great narration too.