Blood Slaves by Markus Redmond - ISBN: 9781496753168
Hardcover
Slavery meets vampires: Freedom’s price is blood, vengeance their reward.

Blood Slaves

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  • Hardcover

    400 pages

  • Release Date

    17 August 2025

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Summary

For fans of Ryan Coogler’s Sinners and readers of Victor LaValle, Tananarive Due, Stephen Graham Jones, and Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad, this ingenious reimagining of the vampire origin story set during the early days of American slavery blends alternate history with supernatural horror, as the last surviving member of an ancient African vampire tribe meets a slave desperate for freedom, and together, they lead an army of enslaved people in a cinematically bl…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781496753168
ISBN-10:149675316X
Author:Markus Redmond
Publisher:Kensington Publishing
Imprint:Kensington Publishing
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:400
Release Date:17 August 2025
Weight:567g
Dimensions:237mm x 162mm
Series:The Blood Saga
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Critics Review

Praise for Blood Slaves

“Markus Redmond has crafted a truly epic reimagining of the 19th century, in which an ancient vampire enslaved on a plantation becomes the catalyst for a widespread slave rebellion and violent reckoning with injustice. It’s clear throughout the narrative that the true monsters are not the vampires, who need blood to survive, but the slave-owners, who require human suffering in the name of profit. Redmond’s novel should be one of the most satisfying of the year, and perhaps of the decade.” —CrimeReads

“Blood Slaves is a genre-bending thrill ride that sinks its teeth in and doesn’t let go. Markus Redmond doesn’t just rewrite vampire mythology, he sets it ablaze with righteous rage and rebellion.” —Clay Cane, New York Times bestselling author of The Grift and Burn Down Master’s House

“I haven’t rooted this hard for characters since Black Panther! Redmond’s delicious take on the vampire origin story will grab readers by the throat from page one.” —Michelle McGill-Vargas, author of American Ghoul

“Immersive and haunting, Blood Slaves is a painful revisitation of the horrors of history through the lens of supernatural empowerment and a new spin on vampirism for freedom.” —Tlotlo Tsamaase, Author of Womb City and The Silence of the Wilting Skin

“Redmond paints such a disturbingly real portrait of inhumanity in the early American South that you’ll beg the vampires to rise and destroy every plantation and slave owner.” —Nicholas Belardes, author of The Deading and Ten Sleep

“A stunning page-turner of a novel that has all the makings of a ‘must see’ television series: love, loss, romance, betrayal, tons of action, and a spectacular, timeless look at the eternal battle of good vs. evil. Blood Slaves is a wondrous new history of justice and revenge. It is the American Game of Thrones.” —David Greenwalt, Executive Producer of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Co-Creator of Angel, and Grimm

“There’s a really impressive balance in the book where the disturbing, genuinely upsetting stuff is the reality and the fun, bombastic genre flare is the fantasy. In lesser hands, the vampires could’ve been sadistic and the slave abuse could’ve been farcical, but Redmond walks the line with acumen: equal parts enraged and, simply, a fan of vampires.” Alex Gonzalez, author of REKT

About The Author

Markus Redmond

Markus Redmond is an actor, director, screenwriter, and author. Known for his roles on Doogie Howser, MD, NYPD Blue, Murder One, Mad About You, Angel, and Fight Club, he wrote and starred alongside Whoopi Goldberg and Sharon Stone in the indie film If I Had Known I Was a Genius. He wrote, directed, and starred in the Amazon Prime thriller The 6th Degree, and has multiple screenplays in development. He lives in Los Angeles and Blood Slaves is his first novel.

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