History Literature / LostSouls1992

* DisposableWoman: The only significant females in the cast are Jessy, who dies in the prologue, and Ann, who mainly exists to force Steve and Ghost to pursue the vampires to retrieve her. (Ann isn't even introduced until Chapter 12, nearly a third of the way through the book.)

* MoralDissonance: Steve's [[RapeAsDrama reaction]] to Ann's [[YourCheatingHeart infidelity]].

* FetusTerrible: Vampire fetuses are deadly to their mothers.

Fifteen years ago, a trio of vampires breezed into a New Orleans bar on the last night of Mardi Gras. Their leader, the charismatic and murderous Zilliah, seduced and abandoned a teenage girl named Jessy, leaving her pregnant with a vampire child who devoured her from the inside out. The baby was left in a basket on an anonymous doorstep in the hopes that he might find an ordinary life.

In the present day, the baby--now a teen who calls himself Nothing--lives in a boring middle-class town where he hungers for things he can't explain. Running away one night, he finds himself in a van with a trio of mysterious strangers as they careen across the country in search of hot blood and cheap thrills. For the first time, Nothing feels he's found where he belongs...and he'll do anything to stay there.

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* AnonymousKillerNarrator

* DisposableWoman: The only significant females in the cast are Jessy, who dies early on, and Ann, who mainly exists to force Steve and Ghost to pursue the vampires to retrieve her.

* IncestSubtext: Arkady's recollection of his brother Ashley's beauty, and his description of their relationship, strongly imply that Arkady was sexually drawn to him and that the feeling might have been mutual. (Theirs is the only relationship in the novel where the incest ''stays'' subtextual.)

* Twincest: The creepy twins are ultimately interested in sex only with one another, to the point that they've starred in porn together.

* JumpedAtTheCall: [[spoiler:Nothing]] is thrilled to be a vampire, and the only thing he's mournful about is his lack of fangs. Actually, most of the vampires are shown to enjoy their powers and near-immortality, or at least are reigned to it.

Fifteen years ago, a trio of vampires breezed into a New Orleans bar on the last night of Mardi Gras. Their leader, the charismatic and murderous Zilliah, seduced and abandoned a young girl named Jessy, leaving her pregnant with a vampire child who devoured her from the inside out. Now in the present day, the baby, who calls himself Nothing, lives in a boring middle-class town and hungers for things he can't explain. Running away one night, he finds himself in a van with a trio of mysterious strangers as they careen across the country in search of hot blood and cheap thrills. For the first time, Nothing feels he's found where he belongs...and he'll do anything to stay there.

Best friends Steve and Ghost make up Lost Souls?, a band maybe a little too talented for the tiny town of Missing Mile, North Carolina. Steve can't hide anything from Ghost--not his drinking problem, not his problems with his girlfriend Ann, not his self-destructive thoughts. Because Ghost can see the past. And the future. And Ghost has seen dark times coming.

When a van full of vampires stops in Missing Mile to take in a Lost Souls? show, it seems that the dark times have finally come. Steve must race to save Ann from the vampires, while Ghost hopes to save Nothing from himself.

''Lost Souls'' is a 1992 novel by Creator/PoppyZBrite, about a not-nearly-legal goth teenager, Nothing. Nothing runs away from home in search of a band he's obsessed with called Lost Souls?, and while hitchhiking he's picked up by every goth kid's dream... a trio of real vampires.

* SouthernGothic

* TheBigEasy: The book begins and ends in New Orleans.
* TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether
* TheManTheyCouldntHang: Zillah was hanged back in the early 20th century, but survived thanks to his regenerative abilities.

''Lost Souls'' is a 1992 novel by Creator/PoppyZBrite, about a not-nearly-legal goth teenager who's name is Jason but who calls himself Nothing. Nothing runs away from home in search of a band he's obsessed with called Lost Souls?, and while hitchhiking he's picked up by every goth kid's dream... a trio of real vampires.

* AgentPeacock: Zillah

* CreepyTwins: The unnamed vampire twins that [[spoiler: killed Arkady's brother, Ashley]].

* MoralDissonance: Steve's [[RapeAsDrama reation]] to Ann's [[YourCheatingHeart infidelity]].

* YaoiGuys: Zillah and Nothing, Nothing and Christian, Nothing and various others...

''For the MUD, see LostSoulsMUD''

* TheMessiah: Ghost

* Anonymous Killer Narrator

* OldShame: Brite seems to resent this novel's popularity and his fandom's demands for a sequel.

* OldShame: Brite seems to resent this novel's popularity and her fandom's demands for a sequel.

* HoYay: Zillah and Nothing are canon, as are Nothing and Christian. [[spoiler:Steve and Ghost share one kiss.]]

* KarmaHoudini: Steve never gets arrested for raping Ann. Also, Nothing never gets any kind of cummupance for helping the trio kill Laine, despite the fact that he was supposedly his best friend. He never even seemed to feel sad.

* MoralEventHorizon: When [[spoiler:Nothing]] is in the van and has the choice to participate in the murder of [[spoiler:Laine]], he participates at first out of self-preservation, but then because of his true nature, and it represents the beginning of his acceptance of a new life and new morality.

* {{Squick}}: Too much to list.

''Lost Souls'' is a 1992 novel by PoppyZBrite, about a not-nearly-legal goth teenager who's name is Jason but who calls himself Nothing. Nothing runs away from home in search of a band he's obsessed with called Lost Souls?, and while hitchhiking he's picked up by every goth kid's dream... a trio of real vampires.