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Whitstable

Whitstable

Author(s): Stephen Volk

Location(s): Whitstable

Genre(s): Novella

Era(s): 1971

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1971. A middle-aged man, wracked with grief, walks along the beach at Whitstable in Kent… A boy approaches him and, taking him for the famous vampire-hunter Doctor Van Helsing from the Hammer movies, asks for his help. Because he believes his stepfather really is a vampire…So begins the moving and evocative new novella by Stephen Volk, published by the British Fantasy Award-nominated Spectral Press in May 2013 to coincide with the centenary of the most celebrated and beloved of Hammer’s stars, Peter Cushing.

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This novella beautifully captures the time and feel of the 1970s – Enid –

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