num_pages: 185
description: "This one's a fictive breeder's field day. Forget Luther Burbank. Imagine Joe R. Lansdale's city cuz crossbred with one of Andrew Vacchs' surlier rural relatives, but with a whole lot of genetic material from the real author, Brian Hopkins. Now there's an experiment in literary biotechnology. Oh, yeah, and the vampires are just lagniappe!" -- Ed Bryant "Imagine a parallel universe wherein Davis Grubb and Andrew Vaches had written a chase film for Sam Peckinpah, and you may have some idea of the surprising scope and depth of this short but damned impressive novel; suspenseful, violent, lean, poetic, and even thoughtful, The Licking Valley Coon Hunters Club is a return to what originally made the thriller great, before brutality and shock were mistaken for action and suspense..." -- Gary A. Braunbeck, author of Things Left Behind and The Indifference of Heaven "This is a very entertaining book. It has everything a P.I. book should... a hard-boiled but chivalrous P.I., lovely ladies in distress, quirky villains who repeatedly beat the hero to a pulp, and a plot that cracks along at the speed of a bullet. PLUS vampires and a science-fiction twist. Who could ask for anything more?" -- Lee Killough, author of Blood Walk and Blood Games
language: English
title: The Licking Valley Coon Hunters Club
titlecomplete: The Licking Valley Coon Hunters Club
genres: Paranormal, Horror
ratings_count: 31
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Bram Stoker Award
category: Best First Novel
publisher: Yard Dog Pr