Do you like your vampires slick and suave or rugged and raging?

If it’s the latter, you’ll very much enjoy KeithRosson’s Coffin Moon. It’s a 70s-set bareknuckle revenge road trip of a book, with some of the meanest vampires you’ll ever meet (and love).

Keith is back in the show for the second time in a year, to talk all about it. We get into his problem with ‘classic’ vampires aesthetics, the lure of backstory, taking hard advice from editors, and violence… a whole lotta violence!

This is a joy of a book, and a blast of a conversation.

Enjoy!

Other books mentioned:

Fever House (2023), by Keith Rosson
The Devil By Name (2024), by Keith Rosson
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil (2025), by V.E. Schwab
King Sorrow (2025), by Joe Hill

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253 – Keith Rosson & The Real V-Word