'"If being a vampire were easy, there wouldn't have to be a Reformed Vampire Support Group."
'Nina became a vampire in 1973, when she was fifteen, and she hasn't aged a day since then. But she hasn't had any fun either, because her life is so sickly and boring.
'It becomes even worse when one of the other vampires in her therapy group is staked by a mysterious slayer. Threatened with extinction, she and her fellow vampires decide to hunt down the culprit. Trouble is, they soon find themselves up against some gun-toting werewolf traffickers who'll stop at nothing.
'Can a bunch of feeble couch potatoes win a fight like this? Or is there more to your average vampire than meets the eye?' (Publisher's blurb)
The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group
Crows Nest
:
Allen and Unwin
,
2010
Z1735344
2010
single work
novel
young adult
'I still hadn't fully absorbed the terrible possibility that I might actually be a werewolf. A werewolf. I kept stumbling over that word; it made no sense to me. How could I be a werewolf? Werewolves didn't exist.
'When Tobias Richard Vandevelde wakes up in hospital with no memory of the night before, his horrified mother tells him that he was found unconscious. At Featherdale Wildlife Park. In a dingo pen.
'He assumes that his two rambunctious best friends are somehow responsible, until he discovers that they're just as freaked out as he is. Then the mysterious Reuben turns up, claiming that Toby has a rare and dangerous "condition". Next thing he knows, Toby finds himself involved with a strange bunch of sickly insomniacs who seem convinced that he needs their help.
'It's not until he's kidnapped and imprisoned that he starts to believe them - and to understand what being a paranormal monster really means.' (From the publisher's website.)
Monsters and Bloodsuckers
Jennifer Byrne Presents ; Monsters and Bloodsuckers
Sydney
:
Australian Broadcasting Commission
,
2009
15302483
2009
film/TV
Jennifer Byrne discusses vampires, werewolves and man-made monsters with guest panellists Tara Moss, Leigh Blackmore, Catherine Jinks and Will Elliott.
