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How to control the bloodlust? How to find inner peace as the living dead? The Way of the Wooden Stake.

One man rises in a SoHo alleyway to find his lover dead and his own body terribly transformed…

He strains to overcome his murderous instincts through zen meditation and blood deprivation.

He is reclaimed by The Ministry, an underground society waging war with the undead.

Again and again he will find his will tested, and his thirst tempted, by the killers who demand his allegiance … and the zen masters who will burn him down at his first missed step…

He must walk a tightrope between the living and the dead ... to master himself and his hunger. And the way of the wooden stake...

The 25th Anniversary Revised Author Edition of LA Times bestselling author Steven-Elliot Altman's controversial Zen in the Art of Slaying Vampires. Foreword by New York Times bestseller Nancy Holder, author of multiple vampire novels and Buffy The Vampire Slayer novels.

"Better in conception than most vampire stories; predominantly due to the rising suspense that follows the narrator's transformation… The piquancy of the conclusion, however, is what rates it a superior work."―Catherine B. Krusberg, Vampires in Print

"Altman practices zen philosophy and considered it necessary to combat the darker nature of some of these vampire kids, through a novel that goes out of its way not to glorify the villainy of vampirism."―Juan Carlos Perez, The Miami Herald

"I've got all the vampire books. My favorite one is Zen in the Art of Slaying Vampires. It's a spiritual journey about facing the vampire within us. To deny the dark does nothing but give it more power. To embrace it and acknowledge it and see its purpose is what makes you whole."―Actress Sheryl Lee, (Laura Palmer from Twin Peaks) on her role in John Carpenter's Vampires

"I liked the pathos of the lead characters and the way it's wrapped in a world of mythology."―Russell Mulcahy, director of Highlander and Resident Evil: Extinction