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Coffin Moon

By: Keith Rosson
Narrated by: Pete Cross
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It's the winter of 1975, and Duane Minor, back home in Portland, Oregon, after a tour in Vietnam, is struggling to quell his anger, keep his drinking in check and keep his young marriage intact. Things get even more complicated when his 13-year-old niece, Julia, is sent across the country to live with her aunt Heidi and uncle Duane after a tragedy.

Then Minor crosses the wrong man – John Varley, a vampire and criminal with a bloody history who sleeps during the day beneath loose drifts of earth and grows teeth in the light of the moon. In an act of brutal retaliation, Varley kills Heidi, leaving Minor broken with guilt and Julia shot through with rage. United only by vengeance, the two follow his path of destruction from the gritty alleyways of Portland to the snow-lashed plains of North Dakota – only to have him turn his vicious power back on them.

Who will prevail, who will survive, and what remains of our humanity when our thirst for revenge trumps everything else?

©2025 Keith Rosson LLC (P)2025 Random House Audiobooks Dark Fantasy Fantasy Horror Suspense Thriller & Suspense Tear-jerking

Critic reviews

'Grabs you by the throat and doesn't relent.' (Cassandra Khaw, USA Today bestselling author of Nothing But Blackened Teeth)
'Epic, horrific, heartbreaking and written with a punk poet's soul.' (Paul Tremblay, bestselling author of The Cabin at the End of the World)
'Rosson expertly delivers a vampire revenge noir so thick with atmosphere and aura that you'll feel it in your guts from the very first sentence.' (Jason Pargin, New York Times bestselling author of John Dies at the End)
'A gritty, blood-soaked tale of revenge that's steeped in '70s grime and grounded in authentic relationships.' (Jason Rekulak, New York Times bestselling author of The Last One at the Wedding)
'[Some of] the year's best new horror.' (Chicago Tribune)
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This darkly brilliant novel felt so much like Stephen King’s 1970s novels that you’d be forgiven for thinking it was. Not a pastiche, but lived-in. Great characters with a lot of depth and strong relationships, and maybe my favourite villain from such a novel.

It would’ve been perfect scores for me all round, but I felt there was some sluggishness with interior character development in the middle third.

A vampire novel to be remembered

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You know when you read one book by a new author and immediately know they're going to be one of your favourite authors? So you go out and buy their books posthaste? It last happened with Brom and now with Keith Rosson.

I first read Coffin Moon at the end of 2025. It was my last 5-star book of the year. I was so overcome with emotions, delight, heartbreak and horror. There was no gradual build-up; it hits you instantly with the opening. Rosson is beautifully descriptive. I was remembering the layouts of the rooms, for crying out loud. A lot of the time I usually forget as soon as I have turned the page. I felt like I had walked straight into a bar in the mid-70s and was taken on a devastating and brutal road trip on the hunt for an unhuman yet still so human killer. (Johan, anyone?) John Varley was a monster way before he was turned into a vampire.

This is a new take of a vampire tale I never wanted to end. It was only as I neared the end that it hit me there was never going to be a happy ending due to the nature of the story, and that made me ugly cry even more. That's not a spoiler. Read the synopsis.

This is a book every Gen X horror lover read as a kid, and my tears ran down my face in appreciation.
If this isn't made into a film, I will riot.

I was excited to find the audiobook was being released; hence my second reading. The narrator did a good job.

Gen X Kids of Horror Come Forth

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