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Welcome to Timmy Valentine's world.

Valentine is a pop star, the idol of millions of young girls and boys. His voice would make the angels weep; his eyes hold you in thrall.

Timmy appears to be about eleven years old. He is actually over two thousand. Timmy Valentine is a vampire, and though our modern skeptic age refuses to believe, Timmy has come to realize that he is in danger as never before.

Too many people have seen him. Photos and recordings survive as paintings and sculptures never could. Soon, someone will realize that Timmy Valentine has never grown up.

Theodore Sturgeon

Terrible things happen in this book -- murder, torture, rape, abandonment...it's about rock music, about mass hysteria, about vampires, about horror...one comes out knowing, and caring about a panoply of new acquaintances, living and dead, and unalive. -- The Washington Post