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Blood Kin

By: Ronald Kelly
Narrated by: Gary Noon
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Unholy revival!

Josiah Craven had been all but forgotten for nearly a hundred years.

To his descendants, he was nothing more than an imposing image in an old tintype photograph and the subject of stories told in hushed tones before the fireplace at night. A traveling mountain preacher who had returned from his wanderings and died under mysterious circumstances - buried in an unmarked grave with a wooden stake through his heart. Dudley Craven had heard the tales, but never believed them...until his plow unearthed an ancient coffin in the center of a lonesome mountain pasture.

Now Josiah is back, and his true nature has been revealed. Hungering for the blood and obedience of his kin, he roams the Appalachian Mountains with only one purpose in mind...to initiate his family into a dark church of the damned.

Only a trio of unlikely foes summon the courage to bring Josiah’s ungodly mission to an end. An alcoholic carpenter who will do anything to save his wife and children, a timid preacher’s wife with a love of horror literature and film and the knowledge to defeat the undead, and a moonshine-making mountain man who once encountered a similar evil in the dark tunnels beneath the jungles of Vietnam.

Together, they will ascend the peak of Craven’s Mountain to do battle with Josiah Craven and his congregation of the living dead!

©2015 Ronald Kelly (P)2021 David N. Wilson
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I absolutely loved this . Great characters fully fleshed out with you really wanting the good guys to win . I prefer longer audiobooks ( more value for money) and at the end of the story you get a great little story as to how ‘grandpappy’ became who he was . Narrator is excellent and for me to say that Is something as I usually can’t stand a lot of them .

Amazing !!!!

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I love Stephen King's Salem's Lot. Never found a small town vampire horror to match it. Now I have, in Ronald Kelly's Blood Kin.

Ronald Kelly's answer to Salem's Lot.

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It is not that long since I read my first Ronald Kelly tale, he has fast become one of my go-to-authors when I want some proper 80s-90s horror! Blood Kin is another great novel from Kelly filled with great characters, action and gore. I do love when the vampires are actually scary and here they are in spades, especially grand-pappy Craven.
Gary Noon delivers an excellent narration that brings the characters to life and does justice to the action scenes!

Great 90s vampire horror

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Blood Kin is a vampire story from horror master Ronald Kelly. It's wonderfully written and full of interesting and distinctive southern characters. It gets straight into the action and never really let's up. It's not quite up there with the best of his work, but it's still a fantastic read.
Gary Noon does a fantastic job on the narration. He's a natural storyteller. It was my first time listened to one of his audiobooks. I'll definitely keep an eye out for more.
Another excellent presentation from the folks at Crossroad Press. Highly recommended.

Quality Southern-fried Vampiric Horror

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Blood Kin is a meaty, enjoyable Appalachian Gothic. It's hard to come up with original vampire stories these days, but the Appalachian angle definitely helped. Fun stuff for those who enjoy supernatural horror.

Appalachian Gothic

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