Vlad was a novella by Carlos Fuentes that I didn’t enjoy much, but a lot of other people seemed to really like it.

Set in Mexico City, our star vampire is once again on the lookout for a new place to call home, and Yves Navarro, a respected attorney, and his wife, a real estate agent, become trapped in his web.

This was a shorter book than others I read that year and while I liked the vampire storyline, some of the other aspects made me feel…gross. I suppose the vampire legend in the Dracula form is gross all the way around – an undead man runs around praying on young girls. Ew.

I read a review of this book a long time ago that stuck with me on Fuentes’s social commentary through this story. I’ll leave it here:

Carlos Fuentes’s ‘Vlad’

This was an okay story. Didn’t love it. It was short, and I thought that was great.

Tagged: authors: carlos fuentes, books: vlad, genre: horror/terror, genre: supernatural