Read a few Anne Rice books,never read any Lumley books. Apparently he is from my neck of the woods.
Lumley is the KING as far as I'm concerned. His writing is about a 180 degrees opposite from Anne Rice.
Don't get me wrong, I think Anne Rice is an excellent writer. But Lumley is much more my cup of tea for vampire writing. His vampires are much more ..vibrant. for lack of a better word.
If Anne Rice's writing is like a romance novel, Lumley's writing is splatterpunk.
Lumley's one of those rare writers who builds on those that came before (King, Koontz, Lovecraft) and still creates something really original.
"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives." Winter is Coming Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
