The Aliens of Transylvania County

Patrick Bone. Overmountain Press, $23.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-1-57072-174-8

Vampire aliens have settled in the North Carolina mountains, and they're stealing children! In spite of the premise and 1950s setting, The Aliens of Transylvania County, which comes on the heels of Patrick Bone's Melungeon Winter, is no campy period piece it's more earnest-coming-of-age-tale meets SF-fantasy as high school senior Chess Cumberland sets off to find out what happened to a missing local girl and clear his own name in the process.

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