Adirondack Author, Pete Klein, Writes a Horror Novel, 'The Dancing Valkyrie,' for Readers Looking for the Next Step Beyond 'The Interview With a Vampire' Series
The new novel,"The Dancing Valkyrie," is the story of a young woman who is an erotic dancer at a topless club in Schenectady, NY, who becomes a vampire while on a hike in the wilds of the Adirondacks.
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.
(PRWEB) December 25, 2005 -- Pete Klein, author of the recently published novel, "The Dancing Valkyrie," hopes to break new ground in the popular but much over copied horror genre - the vampire novel.
ISBN # 1411659651.
The novel is currently listed in Books in Print, Ingram's database in the US; and Bertrams & Gardners, Nielsons Bookdata in the UK.
"The Dancing Valkyrie" is already available online at http://www.lulu.com/ravenwolfpublish and also at Amazon, B&N, Borders and over 30 other online retailers throughout the world, plus numerous bookstores.
Klein says, "I became fascinated with vampire stories in grade school when I first saw the movie 'Dracula' on TV, staring Bela Lugosi. My interest deepened mainly because my grandparents on my father's side came to this country from Romania, the country in which both the real and the fictional Dracula came from."
Reading Dracula the novel in his early 20s made Klein see the story was deeply erotic. Over the years, he read novels and saw movies on vampires, but was disappointed to see all following the basic theme of the evil of vampires.
Klein says, "When I found Anne Rice and her vampire novels, I felt someone was finally seeing beyond the cliches that had developed over the years. But I still was not fully satisfied. I felt that if there were vampires - for real - they could not possibly be demons. They would have to be of flesh and blood. They would have to be a unique creature not yet captured or studied by humans."
Something else Klein did not like was the character Van Helsing. Klein says, "I viewed him as belonging to the holier-than-thou crowd who only needs to condemn someone or something as evil, and then goes about using evil methods to eradicate the so-called evil."
Wanting to create a novel about vampires that might exist if there were vampires, "The Dancing Valkyrie" slowly took shape.
The novel begins and ends in the Adirondacks of northern New York.
It is the story of a young woman who is an erotic dancer at a topless club in Schenectady, NY, who becomes a vampire while on a hike in the wilds of the Adirondacks.
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.
The novel is self-published, using the print-on-demand (POD) services of Lulu.com.
About author
Pete Klein was born in Detroit, Mich. but has been living in the Adirondacks for the past 18 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.
In addition to publishing "The Dancing Valkyrie," Klein has also published a 2007 calendar showing photographs taken on his many hikes and has available both a CD and DVD showing over 100 photographs taken on those hikes. In the spring of 06, a hiking guide, "Short and Long, Up and Down Hikes in Hamilton County," is planned for publication. This will be followed in late summer or early fall by the sequel to "The Dancing Valkyrie."
Media contact:
Pete Klein
PO Box 215, Blue Mt. Lake, NY, 12812
phone: 518-352-7660
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