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They Thirst

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They Thirst	comment	They Thirst is a horror novel, published in 1981 by Robert R. McCammon. The story follows a group of people in Los Angeles who are called by "dark forces."Prince Vulkan, master of the vampires, looses his army of the undead on Los Angeles. Vulkan's plan is to replace humankind, city by city, with the living dead. Four people stand in his way. Homicide detective Andy Palatazin, a Hungarian immigrant who fled this scourge as a child, and who is determined to stop it now; young Tommy Chandler, whose parents were killed before his eyes, and wants revenge; TV star Wes Richer who hopes to save his beloved by tracking Vulkan to his lair; and Father Silvera, a dying priest, who believes that God has chosen him to destroy the vampire prince.
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They Thirst / int_32cb267a	type	Magical Negro
They Thirst / int_32cb267a	comment	Magical Negro: Solange, who is half-Japanese, half-African (Bantu) and a practitioner of some sort of voodoo.
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They Thirst / int_3ae6199a	type	Psychopathic Manchild
They Thirst / int_3ae6199a	comment	Psychopathic Manchild: Vulkan is a Type C. While he hasn't actually been a teenager for several centuries, he still acts like one. He is prone to outbursts of petulant rage and giggles with childish glee when he's about to kill someone. He's also grandiose, self-obsessed, and utterly convinced of his maturity and invincibility. This is made all the more frightening by his genuinely impressive strategic mind and personal power. Roach is a Type B.
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They Thirst / int_3fb4b1cb	type	The Renfield
They Thirst / int_3fb4b1cb	comment	The Renfield: Roach, a demented serial rapist and murderer, is chosen by Vulkan to act as his human agent, after Vulkan brutally disposed of his older, regretful Renfield.
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They Thirst / int_49f6a9e4	type	Most Writers Are Writers
They Thirst / int_49f6a9e4	comment	Most Writers Are Writers: Gayle works for a tabloid called The Tattler.
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They Thirst / int_4c9d226e	type	Formerly Fit
They Thirst / int_4c9d226e	comment	Formerly Fit: Kobra doesn't initially recognize Viking when they meet, remembering him as "slim and wiry," whereas now he's got a beer gut so sizeable Kobra asks if he's "carrying a horse in there."
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They Thirst / int_53407671	type	Action Survivor
They Thirst / int_53407671	comment	Action Survivor: Gayle Clarke, a woman tabloid journalist; Father Silvera, an old priest who is slowly dying; Wes Richer, a stand-up comic; and Tommy Chandler, a young Genre Savvy kid who loves horror movies, count since they're just regular people who manage to survive the vampire onslaught.
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They Thirst / int_5552929	type	Albinos Are Freaks
They Thirst / int_5552929	comment	Albinos Are Freaks: Kobra has extremely pale skin, white-blond hair, and reddish eyes even as a human, something that most people who meet him find off-putting. He plays up his "freak" appearance with threatening red-and-black clothing and a gleeful indulgence in murderous violence.
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They Thirst / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
They Thirst / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: Vulkan's lieutenants tell him about large groups of humans fleeing the city via the Santa Monica Mountains, many of whom are getting past their patrols, but none of those people are shown, as the story remains focused on those survivors still in the city.
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They Thirst / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
They Thirst / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Wes in a last ditch effort against Vulkan fires his gun at him and ends up getting beaten to a pulp by Vulkan and then gets shot in the head by Kobra. However when he fired his gun, he manages to shoot Vulkan's golden urn which Vulkan was using to control the weather. By destroying that urn Vulkan loses control of the sandstorm he created which plays a big factor in the climax. Father Silvera not long after Rich is killed, gets one. When LA starts to fall apart and sinks to the ocean (see above), Vulkan tries to escape but Silvera (who is already dying of Lou Gehrig's disease) grabs hold of him and after a long struggle is able to send him and Vulkan crashing through a building where a tidal wave comes and kills both of them. Solange attacking Kobra gets her killed in the process but also ends up indirectly leading to Kobra's death. When they were fighting they roll into the fire place and after Kobra gets up and is about to shoot Palatazin and Tommy, the gun overheats and ends up exploding which blows Kobra's head off.
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They Thirst / int_651e4362	type	Chain of People
They Thirst / int_651e4362	comment	Chain of People: Father Silvera goes to apartments vulnerable to both vampires and sandstorms and leads the residents back to his church while having them hold on to each other. He rescues over fifty people, but several people are snatched out of the first few chains, and when he brings the last one to his doorstep, everyone is snatched away at the doorstop when he has his back turned.
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They Thirst / int_851dda8f	type	Humanoid Abomination
They Thirst / int_851dda8f	comment	Humanoid Abomination: The Headmaster is never clearly described, but he has eyes that glow like coals, black lips, and gnarled, claw-like hands. He is repeatedly called "it" and a "thing," and is all but stated to literally be the Devil himself.
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They Thirst / int_859bbabc	type	The Cassandra
They Thirst / int_859bbabc	comment	The Cassandra: Captain Palatazin recognizes the signs of vampirism instantly due to an incident in his childhood and urges burning the victims' bodies to stop the spread of the virus. It isn't until around 300 pages into the book that anyone takes him seriously, and his superior forces him to take a two week vacation due to worrying about how much stress he's supposedly under.
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They Thirst / int_86af7ab0	type	Badass Biker
They Thirst / int_86af7ab0	comment	Badass Biker: Several, including Kobra, Viking, and Dicko.
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They Thirst / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
They Thirst / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Prince Vulkan gives one to the heroes near the end of the story about how better men have tried to kill him but failed.
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They Thirst / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
They Thirst / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Vulkan disposes of his human assistant by crushing his head like a grape, mainly for this reason. He was prompted to do so by the man's increasing age and his doubts about his actions, and it's suggested that Vulkan has murdered all of his previous human allies when they became too old to work for him.
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They Thirst / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
They Thirst / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Prince Conrad Vulkan, the Master vampire himself.
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They Thirst / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
They Thirst / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: The Headmaster, who is heavily implied to be Ol' Scratch himself, provides Vulkan with all sorts of black magic, including a golden urn that causes a massive sandstorm.
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They Thirst / int_9f63d4f1	type	Our Vampires Are Different
They Thirst / int_9f63d4f1	comment	Our Vampires Are Different : The word "vampire" isn't mentioned until over 100 pages into the story. Also, they don't seem to need to be invited into homes.
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They Thirst / int_a0bb0b37	type	Knight Templar Big Brother
They Thirst / int_a0bb0b37	comment	Knight Templar Big Brother: When Rico's girlfriend vanishes and her gangbanger brother thinks a rival gang killed or abducted her, he leads several other gang members in attacking the headquarters of the gang he suspects.
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They Thirst / int_a633a438	type	Really700YearsOld
They Thirst / int_a633a438	comment	Really 700 Years Old: Prince Conrad Vulkan, despite his teenage appearance, is an ancient and immortal vampire who is, appropriately enough, almost exactly 700 years old. He was seventeen when he became a vampire in 1342, meaning he was born in 1324 or 1325.
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They Thirst / int_c09dbbbb	type	Weaksauce Weakness
They Thirst / int_c09dbbbb	comment	Weaksauce Weakness: Thanks to Father Silvera, the heroes discover that seawater is an anathema to vampires.
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They Thirst / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
They Thirst / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: Rico Esteban, while not necessarily being presented as the main character, was given a lot of chapters devoted to him early on. However he ends up getting killed in the middle section of the book. His primary purpose seemed to be a way of getting Father Silvera (a major character) involved in the story.
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They Thirst / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
They Thirst / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Roach. In addition to being a vicious, brutal serial rapist and murderer who desecrates the bodies of his victims with the roaches he breeds, tortures and kills in his free time, Roach is also a whiny, pathetic manchild who throws a screaming, blubbering tantrum when he's caught and interrogated by the LAPD, and is revealed to also be a racist and a convicted child molester.
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They Thirst / int_e8bb3043	type	Kill It with Water
They Thirst / int_e8bb3043	comment	Kill It with Water: Thanks to Father Silvera, the heroes discover that seawater is an anathema to vampires. At the end of the novel, an earthquake collapses most of Los Angles into the ocean, destroying the vampire host.
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They Thirst / int_eb0d7317	type	Men of Sherwood
They Thirst / int_eb0d7317	comment	Men of Sherwood: In the final act, Marines do a good job of evacuating the remaining people of Los Angeles and there's no indication that any of them die in the process. Most of them serendipitously avoid the vampires rather than fighting them, but a chaplain at the refugee camp mentions that several Marines have come to him with stories about off-screen encounters with the vampires.
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They Thirst / int_ec68faa	comment	Aerosol Flamethrower: One of the weapons a minor character uses to fight the vampires.
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They Thirst / int_ee05de54	type	Salt Solution
They Thirst / int_ee05de54	comment	Salt Solution: Thanks to Father Silvera, the heroes discover that seawater is an anathema to vampires. At the end of the novel, an earthquake collapses most of Los Angles into the ocean, destroying the vampire host.
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They Thirst / int_efbd4c52	type	All Bikers are Hells Angels
They Thirst / int_efbd4c52	comment	All Bikers are Hells Angels: Of the most murderous sort. Kobra is an especially Ax-Crazy one, murdering people at the drop of a hat even before becoming a vampire, and Vulkan's biker division is under his command.
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They Thirst / int_fea42091	type	Badass Preacher
They Thirst / int_fea42091	comment	Badass Preacher: Father Silvera, with a heavy dose of Religious Bruiser, given that he beats up heroin dealers and kills vampires while rescuing a little girl definitely counts. He also braves the city, filled with vampires and enveloped by a sandstorm, to rescue people with nothing but a crucifix and sheer willpower.
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