![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Clearly, Joshua's blood, once the chemists can break it down, will supply agents that can lick AIDS, cancer, and you name it. Using marvelous equipment, she discovers that Joshua has both an extraordinary, all-encompassing blood type and an organ in his stomach for digesting blood and rebuilding it as a vehicle for superimmunity. However, Joshua, now being kept in an orphanage, is adopted by American research hematologist Kate Newman, who takes him to America. Vampire ruler Vernor Deacon Trent (Lord Dracula), who has had Castle Dracula rebuilt-after many, many centuries-is tired of life, wishes to die and to invest his title in his offspring, the infant Joshua. It seems that the late dictator Ceauescu and his wonderful wife Elena-in the pay of Romania's strigoi, the vampire family haunting Romania since the 1400's-outlawed birth control so that orphanages could burgeon as living blood banks for needy vamps. Is it bad taste to suck blood from those fly-covered kids to pump up a commercial horror novel? Well, Simmons puts them to such imaginative use that ghastliness disappears. The title's children of the night are those frail, ravaged infants we see televised from Romanian orphanages. "Simmons (Summer of Night, Carrion Comfort, Song of Kali, etc.) slips into Bram Stoker/Anne Rice territory and writes his best novel ever. Limited to 726 copies this is one of 500 numbered copies signed by Simmons. ![]()
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