The Ramblings of a Revenant: (An Oral History of the Vampires)

After taking ill, the young Flavian learns of a means of sidestepping his terminal wasting disease — one mythologized, romanticized, and made a laughable notion by the celebrated fictions of the day. Reborn a vampire during the last days of the Gilded Age — a time when the city he calls home is a sea of strangers and stranger accents, a mix of millionaires and migrant workers — Flavian learns to live again, drained of his Indian blood, but given life anew. What comes after is the indelible ramblings of a revenant.

Jayson Iwen, author of 'Roze & Blud'

"A hallucinatory first-person tour of landmark cases in the evolution of vampirism. Tromblay's extensive research finds fluid, natural expression in the succulently poetic period language of its most unnatural protagonists, and, through the dark beauty of this meditation on history, he achieves a subtle new understanding of the fundamental nature of the West, one for which vampirism becomes the perfect sign of all that culture's unquenchable thirsts. The result is a startling psychological appraisal of an entire civilization that blurs fiction and nonfiction so seamlessly it disorients your habitual assumptions and leaves you gazing complicity out at the world from behind the eyes of the beast."

Richard Thomas, author of Disintegration

"What David Tromblay has done with The Ramblings of a Revenant is combine the historical aspects of a documentary film with the passionate and heartbreaking story of a possible vampire existence. This novel is read as fact, absorbed as if hypnotized, and left etched in stone in your own complicit memory. A powerful story of loss, transformation, and vengeance."

Richard Thomas, author of Disintegration

“What David Tromblay has done with The Ramblings of a Revenant is combine the historical aspects of a documentary film with the passionate and heartbreaking story of a possible vampire existence. This novel is read as fact, absorbed as if hypnotized, and left etched in stone in your own complicit memory. A powerful story of loss, transformation, and vengeance.”

About the Author

David Tromblay is a Midwestern Gothic author who served fourteen years between the Army and the Navy before he attended the Institute of American Indian Arts for his MFA in Creative Writing. He's since written and published a memoir and four novels. He lives in eastern Oklahoma with his dogs, goats, bees, and guineas in relative peace.

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