With around a dozen protagonists, it’s inevitable that some characters are more interesting than others. That’s a mighty ambitious premise to be sure, and McCammon pulls it off with a great deal of macabre gusto and only a smidge of the type of clumsiness you might expect from a writer who back in 1981 was still finding his footing. THEY THIRST also deals with a vampire takeover, only here the setting is the entire city of Los Angeles. The subject of that novel, you’ll recall, was vampires taking over a small town. Just as SWAN SONG owed more than a little something to yet (in my opinion) still outdid Stephen King’s THE STAND, THEY THIRST borrows from (unintentionally, McCammon claims) yet betters King’s SALEM’S LOT. In this early novel Robert McCammon accomplished something he’d repeat six years later in SWAN SONG: he outdid Stephen King.
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