When overweight treadmill salesman Reginald Baskin finally meets a co-worker who doesn't make fun of him, it's his own bad luck that tech guy Maurice turns out to be a two thousand-year-old vampire.
And when Maurice turns Reginald to save his life, it's just Reginald's further bad luck that he wakes up covered in blood to discover he's become the slowest, weakest, most out-of-shape vampire ever created … doomed to "heal" to his corpulent self for all of eternity.
But as Reginald struggles with the downsides of being a fat vampire (too slow to catch people to feed on, mocked by those he tries to glamour, assaulted by his intended prey and left for undead), he discovers rare powers in himself that few vampires have … and just in time, because the Vampire Council wants him destroyed as an inferior representative of their race.
*** Reviewers love Fat Vampire's dark humor ... and this time, the bloody underdog has the upper hand:
• "Truly original and a very fun, witty take on the "done to death" vampire story."
• "So funny! I love the dark humor in this whole series. Fat Vampire is horror, satire, and hilarious comedy rolled into one delicious occult bundle!"
• "If Eric Northman [from True Blood] ever gets staked, Reginald Baskin will be my new favorite vampire."
• "Got the book just before bed... Next thing I knew it was the wee hours of the night... It was impossible to put down."
If you love vampire stories like True Blood, Interview With the Vampire and the rest of Anne Rice's books, Dracula, or Let the Right One In (but maybe not Twilight or The Vampire Diaries so much), you'll love Fat Vampire! And if you also love black comedies (or horror comedies) like Shaun of the Dead, What We Do In the Shadows, you'll love it even more!
Johnny B. Truant is the bestselling author of Fat Vampire, adapted by the SyFy network as Reginald the Vampire. His other books include Pretty Killer, Pattern Black, Invasion, The Beam, Dead City, Unicorn Western, and over 100 other titles across many genres.
Originally from Ohio, Johnny and his family now live in Austin, Texas where he's finally surrounded by creative types as weird as he is.