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Joe Pitt Casebooks
''The Joe Pitt Casebooks'' are a series of supernatural noir thrillers written by American author Charlie Huston. Each casebook chronicles Joe Pitt's life as well as his struggles in the underground of vampyre clans of New York. At first Pitt is an unaffiliated vampyre, living in between the cracks by doing jobs for various clans in exchange for blood and freedom. However, as the series progresses, this shifts and Pitt's life evolves with each book. Series There are five books in the Joe Pitt Casebooks series: #'' Already Dead'' (December 27, 2005) #''No Dominion'' (December 26, 2006) #''Half the Blood of Brooklyn'' (December 26, 2007) #''Every Last Drop'' (September 30, 2008) #''My Dead Body'' (October 13, 2009) Overview Setting The stories take place in modern-day New York City, primarily on Manhattan Island (and sometimes in Brooklyn, the Bronx, or Queens). Clans In the Joe Pitt Series, local vampyres have loosely organized themselves into clans, each with their own territo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Huston
Charlie Huston is a novelist and TV writer. His twelve novels span several genres from crime to horror to science fiction. His books have been published in English by Ballentine, Del Rey, Mulholland and Orion, and translated into nine other languages. He adapted his novel The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death for HBO, and his novel Already Dead for HBO Max. He has also written pilots for FX, FOX, Sony and Tomorrow Studios, served as a consulting producer for FOX's ''Gotham'', and worked in several development rooms. He is known for storytelling that focuses on character and relationships in richly detailed worlds that blend genres. Career '' Caught Stealing'', along with '' Six Bad Things'' and Huston's fourth novel, ''A Dangerous Man'', follow the lovable anti-hero, baseball-mad Henry Thompson, as he works his way through mistaken identity, his past, and a new life for himself. He wrote the five volume contemporary vampire noir Joe Pitt Casebooks primarily while livi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Half The Blood Of Brooklyn
''Half the Blood of Brooklyn'' is a 2007 pulp-noir / horror novel by American writer Charlie Huston Charlie Huston is a novelist and TV writer. His twelve novels span several genres from crime to horror to science fiction. His books have been published in English by Ballentine, Del Rey, Mulholland and Orion, and translated into nine other lang .... It is the third novel in the Joe Pitt Casebooks, following No Dominion. The series follows the life of the New York vampyre Joe Pitt, who works sometimes as an enforcer for various vampyre factions in New York and sometimes as a sort of detective. Plot summary Characters External links Author Charlie Huston's Official Website and Blog 2000s horror novels 2007 American novels Contemporary fantasy novels American horror novels American thriller novels American vampire novels Novels set in Brooklyn Del Rey books {{2000s-horror-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contemporary Fantasy Novels
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Novel Series
A book series is a sequence of books having certain characteristics in common that are formally identified together as a group. Book series can be organized in different ways, such as written by the same author, or marketed as a group by their publisher. Publishers' reprint series Reprint series of public domain fiction (and sometimes nonfiction) books appeared as early as the 18th century, with the series ''The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill'' (founded by British publisher John Bell in 1777). In 1841 the German Tauchnitz publishing firm launched the ''Collection of British and American Authors'', a reprint series of inexpensive paperbound editions of both public domain and copyrighted fiction and nonfiction works. This book series was unique for paying living authors of the works published even though copyright protection did not exist between nations in the 19th century. Later British reprint series were to include the ''Routledge's Railway Library ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Horror Novels
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2005 British Novels
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LGBT
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My Dead Body
''My Dead Body'' is a 2009 pulp-noir / horror novel by American writer Charlie Huston Charlie Huston is a novelist and TV writer. His twelve novels span several genres from crime to horror to science fiction. His books have been published in English by Ballentine, Del Rey, Mulholland and Orion, and translated into nine other lang .... It is the fifth novel in the Joe Pitt Casebooks, following '' Every Last Drop''. The series follows the life of the New York vampyre Joe Pitt, who works sometimes as an enforcer for various vampyre factions in New York and sometimes as a sort of detective. Plot summary ''My Dead Body'' brings the story arc of the preceding four books of the Joe Pitt series to a close, as the rival vampyre factions of Manhattan Island face off. Characters External links Author Charlie Huston's Official Website and Blog 2000s horror novels 2009 American novels Contemporary fantasy novels American horror novels Novel series American thriller novels Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Every Last Drop
''Every Last Drop'' is a 2008 pulp-noir/horror novel by American writer Charlie Huston Charlie Huston is a novelist and TV writer. His twelve novels span several genres from crime to horror to science fiction. His books have been published in English by Ballentine, Del Rey, Mulholland and Orion, and translated into nine other lang .... It is the fourth novel in the Joe Pitt Casebooks, following '' Half the Blood of Brooklyn''. The series follows the life of the New York vampyre Joe Pitt, who works sometimes as an enforcer for various vampyre factions in New York and sometimes as a sort of detective. Plot summary Characters This book introduces a number of new characters to the series, including Esperanza Lucretia Benjamin, the vampyre nominally in charge of Queens. External links Author Charlie Huston's Official Website and Blog 2000s horror novels 2008 American novels Contemporary fantasy novels American horror novels American thriller novels American vampire n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Dominion
''No Dominion'' is a 2006 pulp-noir / horror novel by American writer Charlie Huston. This book is the sequel to '' Already Dead'' and follows the life of the vampire detective, Joe Pitt. The title of the book is an allusion to the Dylan Thomas Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion", as well as the "play for voices" ''Under ... poem "And Death Shall Have No Dominion," which appears in the book. Plot summary ''No Dominion'' Is the second book in the Joe Pitt Casebooks series written by Charlie Huston. Vampyre Joe Pitt is down on his luck, behind on rent and low on blood. With nowhere else to turn he finds himself asking his former boss Terry Bird head of the vampyre clan the Society. Bird tosses Joe a job, tracking down the source of a new drug on the streets, a drug powerful enough to cause those infected wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
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Already Dead (Huston Novel)
''Already Dead'' is a 2005 pulp-noir / horror novel by Charlie Huston and published in 2005. This is the first of the Joe Pitt Casebooks. Plot summary ''Already Dead'' follows the adventures of a vampyre named Joe Pitt as he tries to figure out a mysterious zombie epidemic stemming around New York. He has connections in Manhattan Underworld which make him a valuable item for clans. Joe is then asked to find the gothic daughter of a rich man, and is pressured to do the work. Meanwhile, a disease is spreading zombie like symptoms around the town, causing whoever is bitten (or infected) by this disease into "Shamblers", and it's up to Joe to find the mysterious carrier of this sickness. Aside from his line of work, Joe has a girlfriend named Evie, a human that is HIV positive, is currently terrified of any sexual contact since she's afraid of infecting him with the sickness. Joe knows how to cure her HIV, but fears the side effects; so he tries his best to keep his vampyrism a sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
