Book 4 of my 26 books for 2024 goal! I’m a little behind, but in fairness, February is a short month. Why 26 books? I normally can read much, much faster than that pace, but the way life and work has been, I haven’t had as much time or energy to read as I would like. One book every two weeks seemed like a reasonable bare minimum goal.
This next book is one I’ve been interested in reading for a while! The Space Vampires, by Colin Wilson (1976).
The reason I’ve been interested in reading it is that it was the inspiration for the cult classic Tobe Hooper directed movie Lifeforce, that appeared in 1985, and freaked me out when I was younger!
The movie has one scene in particular where a desiccated corpse is being examined by a doctor, only for it to spring to life and drain the lifeforce of the doctor! That scene is still disturbing to me to this day, though the movie as a whole was less satisfying.
But what about the book? Well, the title tells you a lot, but let’s get into more details!
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