I’d expected something similar to the rich, sumptuous splendour of Rice’s “ The Vampire Armand” and, whilst “Vittorio, The Vampire” certainly has elements of this, all of this novel’s beauty is also counterpointed by a decent amount of exquisitely creepy horror too 🙂 Plus, it is also a slightly faster-paced novel than I’d expected too 🙂 One of the first things that I will say about this novel is that it was much more of a horror novel than I’d expected 🙂 To his surprise, she persuades the other vampires to spare his life.Īlone in a castle filled with corpses, Vittorio swears revenge and begins a journey to find the vampires… Furious, he tries to kill one of the vampires – a woman called Ursula – but fails. Vittorio hides in the crypt with his siblings, but cannot protect them. Vampires storm the castle and begin to massacre everyone. Vittorio’s father meets him at the gate and sends him away, before rushing to the chapel and gathering his family around him. Shortly after Vittorio turns sixteen, there is a mysterious high-ranking visitor to the castle one night. Yet, in the midst of this idyll, young Vittorio begins to hear frightened whispers amongst his father’s friends and also begins to have nightmares about holding the severed heads of his younger siblings. His father was wealthy, his castle far from any place of strategic importance to any of the bands of mercenaries who fought wars between city states. He begins with his idyllic childhood in the mid-15th century, where he was both a young scholar and a knight in training. A vampire called Vittorio sits in the ruins of his ancestral castle and, at the request of some vampires that he barely knows from New Orleans, he decides to set his life story down on paper. The novel begins in rural Italy in the late 1990s. This is the 2000 Arrow (UK) paperback edition of “Vittorio, The Vampire” that I read.
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