In an ideal aristocracy monsters of classic horror, vampires have always been considered the aristocracy. Dracula, the founder, is an account - but also its many imitators in general tend to have, in the structure of society, a dominant position.
The premise of "Midnight Mass", while making a clean sweep of any direct reference to coats of arms, takes this principle to its logical consequence: instead of acting to detail, the vampires have brought to humanity the assault on another plane unleashing a real World War III. They won without difficulty and now are concerned only to keep alive a number of human enough to earn his blood that they need to survive and avoid turning them into more mouths to feed and maintain, however, whole herds of "bitches", that women are able to produce new prey to faint.
But if the planet is almost too late, a small group of people organized a strenuous resistance: the vigorous father Joe Cahill, a Catholic priest of unshakable faith, her sister Carol, a nun who has learned to get busy with explosives (and with reluctance that he does not hesitate to stop the veil to wear provocative clothing in order to distract his opponents) and Lacey, nephew of Father Cahill, lesbian and staunchly atheist.
is a strange bunch, in which the fourth musketeer is unlikely a rabbi in disguise. But God's ways are inscrutable, and although they have the traditional vampire weaknesses (they are vulnerable to piles of ash, the beheading and symbols of Catholicism - with severe discomfort of those who belong to other religions) on their side there are also legions of collaborators : the so-called "Vichy", human vampires who agree to serve for about ten years behind the promise to be processed in turn conquer life (almost) forever. What
F. Paul Wilson is not a particularly sophisticated novel, "Midnight Mass" offers action, action, action from cover to cover, however, can, surprisingly, never to be repetitive, and above all playing with the tradition in modo intelligente, rispettandone i cardini principali ma in modo niente affatto pigro o acritico.
Si arriva alla fine delle sue oltre 400 pagine senza annoiarsi, sorprendendosi dopo un po' a credere completamente al mondo che viene descritto e anche alle scelte più improbabili di personaggi non proprio sfaccettati ma nemmeno totalmente di cartone. Accettando tranquillamente quel tipo di eccesso che di solito si è disposti a perdonare alle migliori graphic novels. Una bella sorpresa, valorizzata da una traduzione particolarmente attenta a chiarire, per i lettori italiani, i riferimenti meno immediatamente riconoscibili alla cultura pop americana di cui Wilson è impregnato.
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