Some of Your Blood

Name: Some of Your Blood
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Theodore Sturgeon
ISBN: 9781666163582

Author: Theodore Sturgeon

Narrator: Preston Geer

Unabridged: 4 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/19/2023

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

One of the Horror Writers Association's Top 40 Horror Books of All Time—the story of a troubled soldier and his bizarre, violent obsession with vampirism.

At the height of an unnamed war, a soldier is confined for striking an officer. Referred to as George Smith in official papers and records, the prisoner comes under the observation of Army psychiatrist Philip Outerbridge, who asks the young man to put his story down on paper. The result is a shocking tale of abuse, violence, and twisted love, a personal history as dark and troubling as any the doctor has ever encountered. Believing the patient to be dangerously psychotic, Dr. Outerbridge must dig deeper into his psyche. And when the truth about the strange case of George Smith is fully revealed, the results will be devastating.

Told through letters, transcripts, and case studies, Some of Your Blood is an extraordinary, poignant yet terrifying, genre-defying novel.

About Theodore Sturgeon

Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985) is considered one of the godfathers of contemporary science fiction and dark fantasy. The author of numerous acclaimed short stories and novels, among them the classics More Than Human, Venus Plus X, and To Marry Medusa, Sturgeon also wrote for television and holds among his credits two episodes of the original 1960s Star Trek series, for which he created the Vulcan mating ritual and the expression "Live long and prosper." He is also credited as the inspiration for Kurt Vonnegut's recurring fictional character Kilgore Trout.

Sturgeon is the recipient of the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the International Fantasy Award. In 2000, he was posthumously honored with a World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement.

Reviews

Goodreads review by aPriL does feral sometimes on August 19, 2020

'Some of Your Blood' by Theodore Sturgeon is a VERY disturbing book. A backwoods, undereducated kid is raised in a miserable, shabby home with a mean drunk of a father and an abused, arthritic mother. Life is hellish, but it's all George Smith (not his real name) knows. There are days with no food o......more

Goodreads review by Laurie (barksbooks) on February 16, 2018

This is an older short story that GR says was first published in 1956. Admittedly, I haven’t read much in the way of classic horror and I wasn’t sure the story would work for me. I guess I was expecting it to be dry and slow. What I found instead was a deeply disturbing story with many images that w......more

Goodreads review by Wayne on October 21, 2016

Big George didn't have fangs, nor did he sleep in a coffin. But big George did like to drink blood. It is discovered by an Army psychiatrist that this soldier has some serious issues and that he has a deadly past. George had an abusive, drunken father and developed an unnatural taste for blood from......more

Goodreads review by Steve on March 09, 2014

Written in 1961, Theodore Sturgeon's Some of Your Blood, is both a unique take on the vampire story (which is damn near impossible) as well a product of its times. But that doesn't mean it's dated. Generally, the story holds up quite well. References to Korea, Masters and Johnson, Havelock Ellis, hu......more

Goodreads review by Tom LA on May 12, 2016

Superb work. Like any other novel by Theodore Sturgeon that I've read, this is a literary masterwork, original, dark and deeply unconventional. Sturgeon wrote more with his guts than with his mind, and he was able to create dream-like stories that spoke straight to your subconscious, whether simply......more