![]() ![]() ![]() Nothing is determined to find out more about his birth mother, and the arrival of a fourth member of the group, Christian, makes this possible. Zillah is the group’s leader, violent and dangerous. ![]() The need to feed emerged within Nothing as he grew up, and he takes easily to life on the road, snatching the vulnerable and draining their blood. On the way, he is picked up by a group of three vampires travelling in an anonymous black van, including (unknown to him) his natural father Zillah. ![]() He begins with a cross-country Greyhound bus trip to Missing Mile, North Carolina, the home of his favourite indie rock band Lost Souls?, which is fronted by Steve Finn and Ghost. Courtesy of a note pinned to his basket the night he was left on their doorstep, he at least knows his real name. He’s bored with his hometown, frustrated with his adopted parents (who seem uniquely unable to understand him) and is eager to skip town to find his real parents. In the case of Lost Souls by Poppy Z Brite, it became a cult classic and launched a career that, so far, comprises eight novels and four short-story collections. The runaway success of a debut novel always interests writers who are looking to make a similar breakthrough in their own careers. ![]()
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