Christopher Golden, connu en France sur ses romans fantastiques notamment sur les vampires, vient d'écrire un roman en collaboration avec Mike Mignola : Baltimore, or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire.

Il s'agit encore de vampire avec une uchronie autour de la première guerre mondiale avec pour héros un soldat, seul survivant de son unité, qui se retrouve entouré de créatures monstrueuses.

Voici ce qu'il en dit dans une interview :

"In an alternate-history World War I, Capt. Henry Baltimore leads his men on a nighttime raid across no man's land toward enemy lines, only to have them slaughtered," Golden said in an interview. "Wounded, the only survivor, he regains consciousness to find hideous batlike carrion creatures feasting on the dead."

When one approaches him, Baltimore slashes it with a bayonet, spilling its evil blood into the soil of wartorn Europe and waking the intelligence that has slept inside these bestial creatures for ages, Golden said. "Furious, the creature—a different sort of vampire—sets out to destroy Baltimore's life, beginning a war of mutual hatred that forges Baltimore into something else entirely, even as a deadly plague ravages Europe, bringing a stop to the war, and evil spreads across the land," he said. "Though he strikes at the heart of this evil, to Baltimore, it is entirely personal." "


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