Vampires in the Adirondacks. Will the new vampire novel, The Dancing Valkyrie, keep hikers out of the woods?

The vampire novel, The Dancing Valkyrie, tells the story of an erotic dancer who becomes a vampire while hiking in the Adirondacks.

(PRWEB) May 23, 2006 -- "The Dancing Valkyrie," is a vampire novel for readers who have always been of the opinion that real vampires must like sex as much as they like blood.

The new novel, "The Dancing Valkyrie," is the story of a young woman who is a librarian by day and erotic dancer at a topless club in Schenectady, NY, at night who learns she was born to be a vampire while taking a hike on the Northville-Placid Trail deep in the wilds of the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York.

The novel follows her rapid acclimation into being what she was born to be - a vampire with a lust for both blood and sex - and draws to a conclusion when she meets with a vampire who lives to kill other vampires - and whose name is Van Helsing.

In Germanic mythology, Valkyries were women of mystical beauty and strength who were the guardian angels of the body and the soul. It was they who on the battlefield chose whose life to save and whose souls they would guide up to Valhalla after they were slain on the battlefield.

Peter Klein, author of the novel, says the idea for the novel grew out of one simple idea.

"If there were vampires, if they really were to exist, they would have to be creatures of skin and bone, flesh and blood, and they would have been created by God for whatever reason. I've just never been able to buy into the idea of mystical demons. We ourselves have the capacity for evil. Just look at the news with all the murders, rapes and robberies on display. Who needs demons when you have us?" says Klein.

With that said, are the vampires in "The Dancing Valkyrie" any more evil than the humans who make front page for their crimes?

Klein says, "They have their own standards of what is moral for them. In their belief system, most believe they were created by God when God 'marked' Cain in order to protect him from being killed by humans. Another curious belief shared by most vampires is that it was they who were summoned by God to be the Angels of Death who slew the first born of the Egyptians so that the Jews could escape from Egypt."

The Dancing Valkyrie (ISBN # 1411659651) is listed in Books in Print, Ingram's database in the US; and Bertrams & Gardners, Nielsons Bookdata in the UK and is already available online at http://www.lulu.com/ravenwolfpublish and at other popular online sources from Japan, the US, Canada, the UK, France and Germany, as well as at numerous brick-and-mortar bookstores.

Don't see it in your local bookstore? Ask for it.

ABOUT AUTHOR

Pete Klein was born in Detroit, Mich. but has been living in the Adirondacks for the past 19 years. He is married with three children and two granddaughters. Klein has been a reporter for the Hamilton County News for the past four years.

MEDIA CONTACT: Pete Klein: email at - kleinpete@hotmail.com, write to: Pete Klein, PO Box 215, Blue Mt. Lake, NY, 12812, or phone: 518-352-7660.

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