Dhampire

by Scott Baker

Book Overview

Young David Bathory returns to his ancestral home where he faces two choices, the first involving the immediate torments of hell, and the second, the acceptance of his birthright as the heir to the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671446665
• ISBN13: 9780671446666
• Release Date: December 1982
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Mining the Darkness

Scott Baker's Ancestral Hungers" may very well be the first "Gothic, neo-Noir" Novel of our generation. Unlike the lush romanticism of Anne Rice or the creepy surrealism of Clive Barker, "Hungers" barrels across the page like a passenger train in a Edward Hopper cityscape that's haunted by characters out of a Bosch nightmare. Like classic Noir, Baker's most terrible "Gothic" secrets are hidden under the calloused soul of his main character, and there they fester until circumstances drag it all out of him in a paryoxym of lust, rage, hellfire and transcendent mysticism. And that's when the real fun of "Hungers" begins. The novel begins in familiar territory, then explodes into a pathos that distorts the classic western battle of "Good vs. Evil" (desire vs. control) and turns it on its head, focing the main character to tumble headlong into a tortured wilderness of metaphysical plot twists that ooze with the sacred Horrors of eastern religion and philosophy. It's a wild ride! Baker's tale is a Fever Dream. A tale laced with Absinthian nightmares that would make Poe proud - yet it forces readers to confront their own deep seated emotional fears by relentlessly tearing at the narrow realities that we inhabit every day. And when all the fear and terror is spent, it finally asks us this question: "In a world bursting with the weight of the most mundane little evils, are we capable of true consciousness?" Are we ready to see through the everyday Horror that surrounds us and see it for what it truly is...

flawed, but classic occult horror

Ancestral Hungers is a rewrite of the author's older book, called Dhampire, which has always been a favorite of mine. While most reviews think of this as a 'vampire' book, I think it's a broader canvas than that - it includes medieval grimoire sorcery, tantric occultism, and a lot of cool real vampire lore that never gets covered in the popular literature. Those who like the occult theories of Kenneth Grant will be thrilled by the stuff in here.The book's greatest flaw is its ending, which wanders off into a full-scale tour of a halluncinatory hell without much rhyme or reason. This last section rather fails.Still if you want a tale of black magic to curl your toes, I recommend it. Sexually depraved? You bet! Lunatic? Possibly... Steeped in elder lore? Fer sure!

Great!! vampire literature

I loved this book. I couldn't put it down i wish that there was a second part I would love to find out what happens next. It has been many years since this book was published and i hope that there will be another one.

this is a kick-ass book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

as a hard core horror fan i think i speak for everyone when i say this book rocks!!!!!!!!!! i have read this book about six times and it keeps getting better!!!!!!! i think this book should be put into a movie!!!!!!!!!!!!! i will even throught in a rating for this book, i give it a ten. for all of you hard core horror fans such as myself, you should give this book a try!!!!! and just for the record, if you want to send me any e-mail aboout horror, you know, who's a fan just like me, my e-mail address is on the screen.its open to anyone and everyone who loves to read about vampric lifestyles, and ,off the record ,would die to live that lifestyle!!!!!!!!!! give me a big fat try!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!or, you can write me at 326 cumberland street brooklyn, newyork 11238