IT IS CALLED THE VAMPIRES BIBLE

And it lives up the nickname

Read it and be afraid of Lillith's curs on man.

Caine was exhiled from paradise to the land of Nod, and that is all the Holy Bible says about Caine's stay in Nod. This book goes in detail where our bible stops and TAKES US INTO THE IMAGINATIV WORLD WE LOVE TO EXPERIENCE.


A definite must read!   April 5, 2000
 10 out of 11 found this review helpful

This is the best and most accurate up-to-date book about vampire lore. If you've every thought about reading a book about the demons that walk the night this has to be your first pick. It lists all the clans in full detail with the last words of the 2nd generation clan elders to their childer and a very in depth story about the first vampire Caine. Although some of the writing may be hard to read (like the Malkavian clan text) this is still a great book. But the only way to complete it is to read The Erciyes Fragments which will complete the Book of Nod. ENJOY!


INTERESTING TO A NON-PLAYER   September 28, 2000
 7 out of 11 found this review helpful

I BOUGHT THIS BOOK SEVERAL YEARS AGO WHILE BROWSING IN A BOOKSTORE. HOW CAN YOU RESIST NOT PICKING UP THIS SLIM VOLUME WITH THAT SILVER OVER BLACK COVER DESIGN? AS I THUMBED THROUGH IT, I REALIZED THAT WHILE IT WAS FOR MASQUERADE, IT COULD STAND ALONE AS A BOOK ON IT'S OWN. I ENJOYED READING THE CHRONICLES OF CAINE, SHADOWS, AND SECRETS. THE NOTES THAT FOLLOWED EACH OF THESE SECTIONS WERE ALSO OF INTEREST. NOW LET'S TALK ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATIONS. THE PICTURES ALONE ARE WORTH THE PURCHASE PRICE. ANY ONE OF THEM LOOK LIKE THEY COULD HAVE COME FROM THE PEN OF CLIVE BARKER (CHECK OUT CLIVE BARKER ILLUSTRATOR I & II). ALL TOGETHER, AN INTERESTING BOOK TO ADD TO YOUR COLLECTION. ...


oh man...   June 12, 2003
 5 out of 11 found this review helpful

I like Vampire, but I'm no die-hard RPGer. This book can be comfortably read in an hour. Less, if one doesn't stop every few minutes to wonder why so much of the book is taken up with giant pictures which do little to add to the content or mood.

Look - it's a graphic novel. The best graphic novels have good content and excellent artwork. This novel has very little content and only good artwork. "Oh, but it has footnotes!" Look, you dork - footnotes?! In the VAMPIRE BIBLE? The footnotes are done INCREDIBLY poorly - you actually have to flip back and forth between the text on page (making up numbers here) 11 and the footnotes on page 23, and then MORE text on page 26, whose footnotes are on page 43... Yes, the footnotes are BETWEEN chapters. Brilliant.

The entire mythos presented is extremely thin - no flesh to this body - and the section describing the different clans is the most perfunctory piece of garbage I have read in quite some time - it actually feels like it was added on by an editor who thought there was too little content, but that adding more than a few sentences for each one would have somehow ruined the work.

Having read this and the Ericyes Fragments, I heartily recommend the latter - it's an excellent book. The Book of Nod has made it onto the short list of books in this genre I can't stand. Don't read this piece of tripe. Definitely don't buy it. If you feel the pressing need to read it, just go to a bookstore and read it. After all, it's only an hour long.