The Vampire's Revenge

Vernon, a sadistic vampire, escapes from a spell of petrification and returns to his old haunts in Kathchem-by-the-Throat to wreak murderous vengeance on his family and fellow citizens. The subsequent machinations involve an invisible man, a transmuted one-eyed hunchback called Igon, and a werewolf who turns into a selection of Australian mammals. The tendency to cram a gag into every other line rapidly clogs the plot and, as befits a book which relies so heavily on graveyard humour, the jokes are rotten and the writing rigid. The book should appeal to all those upper juniors who are entertained by funny foreign accents and the mockery of the deaf.