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  • Blood Kin

  • By: Ronald Kelly
  • Narrated by: Gary Noon
  • Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (8 ratings)

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Blood Kin

By: Ronald Kelly
Narrated by: Gary Noon
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Summary

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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Amazing !!!!

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 .

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Ronald Kelly's answer to Salem's Lot.

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.

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Vampire

A solid vampire novel. Full of menace and real vampires not the modern loved up nonsense. Good pacing and characters would recommend this. The narrator Gary Noon carries this story well.
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Great 90s vampire horror

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!

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