Valentine (Tor)

Timmy Valentine is a vampire - he was created magically in an alchemical experiment performed in ancient Pompeil. But unlike most vampires of fiction, Timmy is not an adult - Timmy is forever and always an 11-year-old boy with a beautiful soprano voice and a face like an angel. In our time, he appeared as a teenage rock-star, powerful and reclusive. At the end of Vampire Junction, Timmy was very nearly destroyed, and the spell binding him to the Earth nearly broken.Ten years have passed since Timmy Valentine's "disappearance" in the fiery destruction of the town of Junction. But like Elvis, he is more popular than ever. The script for "The Timmy Valentine Story" has finally been approved by the record company, and it is time to cast the lead role. The attention of the whole world is turned to the mysterious disappearance of Timmy Valentine, and to speculation about who will win the coveted role.But there are a few people still alive who know what happened during those dreadful days in Junction, Idaho. Brian Zottoli remembers. So does his friend PJ. And so does Terry Gish, who seemed to have survived the vampire-ridden night in Junction - but who has just died in an accident, and risen to stalk the streets of Los Angeles as a vampire himself. And the Gods of Chaos still survive, a few of them at least. They don't believe that Timmy is beyond their reach. And they are right.It's all beginning again.

From Publishers Weekly

An immortal vampire youth, a Christ figure, searches for salvation while those he has touched seek the meaning of their blighted lives in this eerie and horrific sequel to Vampire Junction . Timmy Valentine, the most recent manifestation of the vampire, was a rock star whose phenomenal flowering ended in his mysterious disappearance in Junction, Idaho. A contest to find a lookalike to star in a multimillion-dollar epic movie about Timmy results in the elevation of Angel Todd, an abused boy who alone can see Timmy in his purgatory. The forces of good and evil gather on the film set in burned-out Junction. Wicked psychic Simone Arleta, steeped in ancient witchcraft, abetted by fallen televangelist Damien Peters, has kept Timmy bound in another place, behind mirrors, aiming to harness his powers to overthrow the world and reestablish the dominion of ancient gods. Opposing Simone and Damien are half-Shoshone artist PJ Gallaghersic , who is gifted with a sacred vision, and the young Thai noblewoman Premchitra, whose grandfather vanished while hunting for Timmy in Junction. Somtow (the pseudonym of Thai writer Somtow Sucharitkul) constructs a clever (if sometimes stomach-turning) tale, expounding on the powers of light and darkness as they weave through the modern Hollywood and country towns. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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