The Space Vampires

The Space Vampires

The Space Vampires
List Price: $12.95
Our Price: $7.46
You Save: $5.49 (42%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions


(Click here)
Buy this book at online book store in your country
Canada | UK | Germany | France

Book Summary Information

Adapter: Colin Wilson
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-12-01
ISBN: 0982324618
Number of pages: 120
Publisher: Monkfish Book Publishing

Book Reviews of The Space Vampires

Book Review: A brilliant and thought-provoking Sci-fi novel.
Summary: 5 Stars



In the year 2100, astronauts lead by Captain Carlsen investigate a bizarre spaceship that resembles a European castle of old stories while exploring space. They look inside to find that it's like something out of a Dracula story even with weird paintings made from a space substance, Carlsen and the crew discover large dead Octupus-like creatures and lots of semi-nude humanoid beings preserved in special coffins as they decide to bring a few which is two females and one male back to Earth in London for research. However they do wake up and escape as they are vampire-like alien beings that drain energy out of humans to get power including inhabiting the bodies of sex-murder victims including possibly the Prime-Minister, a professor of criminology and real-life vampirism known as Falleda with a inspector named Caine join up with Carlsen on trying to find out a way of how to destroy these intergalactic soul-suckers or else humanity might be contamined.

Intelligent and lovecraftian work of Sci-fi and horror fiction melded nicely by acclaimed author Colison Wilson. This one gives readers a unique and very refreshing approach on the vampire legend as these creatures have visited Earth before to create maps for humans mainly the greeks and even create the legends of vampires, succubi and other monsters of lore. But the core of this novel is that vampirism does exist as we are all vampires who drain energy from other things and the creatures here aren't like your father's vampires told in Bram Stoker or Ann Rice, these creatures have no fangs and suck only energy/youth/lifeforces out of beings instead.

It's a story about discover and what if there was other life out there beyond our world, it is also a philosphil tale about what could be evolution's true link. The 1985 movie "Lifeforce" was excellent but very loose adaptation that goes more for sex, gore, zombies and that sort of thing but not close as this book though.

If your looking for a very original and refreshing story about aliens and vampirism, i recommend reading this book.

Summary of The Space Vampires

Circa 2100

A scourge of sex and death from an alien spaceship

WHEN CAPTAIN CARLSEN ENTERED THE VAST DERELICT SPACESHIP, he was shaken by the discovery of its immobilized humanoid passengers.

Later, after three of the strange aliens had been transported to Earth, his foreboding was more than justifi ed. The creatures were energy vampires whose seductive embraces were fatal, whose lust for vitality was boundless. As they took over the willing bodies of their victims and sexual murders spread terror throughout the land, Carlsen worked toward their destruction-even while he was erotically drawn to the most beautiful vampire of all!

 "Thoroughly intriguing" -Chicago Sun-Times (1976)

"New slant on horror...unique rendering of the age-old enigma of the kiss of death" -Chicago Tribune (1976)

COLIN WILSON is the author of more than 100 fiction and nonfiction books. The Outsider (1956), published at the age of 24, earned him worldwide critical acclaim. The Space Vampires, his fi fty-fi rst book, was translated into Spanish, Japanese, French, Dutch and Swedish and was later adapted for screen in the movie LIFEFORCE, directed by Tobe Hooper (SALEM'S LOT, POLTERGEIST, THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE). The movie failed however to capture the true spirit of the cult classic reprinted here by popular demand.

Horror Books

Book Subjects
Most talked about in Horror Books
Let the Right One In: A Novel ImageLet the Right One In: A Novel
by John Ajvide Lindqvist
St. Martin's Griffin; Published: 2008-10-28; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.95
Price in other shops: $15.95
Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text ImageFrankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
University Of Chicago Press; Published: 1982-03-15; Paperback; Book
Best price: $11.00
Price in other shops: $17.00
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Oxford Bookworms S, Stage 4) ImageDr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Oxford Bookworms S, Stage 4)
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Oxford Univ Pr (Sd); Published: 1991-06; Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.79
Price in other shops: $5.95
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (Oxford Books of Prose) ImageThe Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (Oxford Books of Prose)
Oxford University Press, USA; Published: 2001-11-19; Paperback; Book
Best price: $50.00
The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, Book 3) ImageThe Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, Book 3)
by Stephen King
Penguin Audio; Published: 2003-08-26; Audio CD; Book
Best price: $149.99
Thinner [UNABRIDGED] ImageThinner [UNABRIDGED]
by Stephen King
Penguin Audio; Published: 1996-09-01; Audio Cassette; Book
Best price: $8.00
Price in other shops: $34.95
The Crow: Temple of Night ImageThe Crow: Temple of Night
by S P. Somtow
Harper Paperbacks; Published: 1999-11-03; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.99
Price in other shops: $17.00
Brains: A Zombie Memoir ImageBrains: A Zombie Memoir
by Robin Becker
Eos; Published: 2010-05-25; Paperback; Book
Best price: $0.23
Price in other shops: $13.99
The Strain LP: Book One of The Strain Trilogy ImageThe Strain LP: Book One of The Strain Trilogy
by Guillermo Del Toro, Chuck Hogan
HarperLuxe; Published: 2009-06-02; Paperback; Book
Best price: $14.45
Price in other shops: $26.99
Prince of Darkness ImagePrince of Darkness
by Barbara Michaels
HarperTorch; Published: 2005-04-26; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.62
Price in other shops: $7.50
Similar Books and other products
Genes, Giants, Monsters, and Men: The Surviving Elites of the Cosmic War and Their Hidden Agenda ImageGenes, Giants, Monsters, and Men: The Surviving Elites of the Cosmic War and Their Hidden Agenda
by Joseph P. Farrell
Feral House; Published: 2011-05-03; Paperback; Book
Best price: $12.12
Price in other shops: $19.95
King Kong ImageKing Kong
TURNER HM ENTERTAINM; Release date: 2006-03-28; DVD
Best price: $3.12
Price in other shops: $12.98
The Grid of the Gods: The Aftermath of the Cosmic War and the Physics of the Pyramid Peoples ImageThe Grid of the Gods: The Aftermath of the Cosmic War and the Physics of the Pyramid Peoples
by Joseph P. Farrell
Adventures Unlimited Press; Published: 2011-07-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $12.78
Price in other shops: $19.95
The Philosopher's Stone ImageThe Philosopher's Stone
by Colin Wilson
Bookpeople; Published: 1979-08; Paperback; Book
Best price: $205.36
Godzilla (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] ImageGodzilla (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]
Image Entertainment; Release date: 2012-01-24; Blu-ray
Best price: $27.87
Price in other shops: $39.95
Super Consciousness: The Quest for the Peak Experience ImageSuper Consciousness: The Quest for the Peak Experience
by Colin Wilson
Watkins; Published: 2009-05-05; Paperback; Book
Best price: $12.89
Price in other shops: $19.95
Lifeforce ImageLifeforce
Sony; Release date: 1998-05-27; Published: 1998-05-01; DVD
Best price: $7.23
Price in other shops: $14.98
The Philosopher's Stone ImageThe Philosopher's Stone
by Colin Wilson
Jeremy P. Tarcher; Published: 1989-06; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $39.95
The Mind Parasites ImageThe Mind Parasites
by Colin Wilson
Monkfish Book Publishing; Published: 2005-10-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.00
Price in other shops: $14.95
The Outsider ImageThe Outsider
by Colin Wilson
Tarcher; Published: 1987-09-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.06
Price in other shops: $15.95
Book store. Illustrated catalog of books on different categories