Justin Cronin on the Vampires of The Twelve and The Passage

In his internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Passage, Justin Cronin constructed an unforgettable world transformed by a government experiment gone horribly wrong. With The Twelve, the story continues.

In this interview, Cronin describes the vampire-like creatures of the books, and the reality-based origins of their behaviors.

[sonymony]

I am reading "The passage" and it is awesome

[dharmageddonnow]

I studied writing with JC. A superb instructor too! It was well before he wrote the Passage but the writing lessons learned have stayed with me to this day. And The Passage was brilliant.

[stephenishola]

I first found out about the novel was after I watched the show on FOX for the first time. The show intrigued me to read the book because I wanted to know more in depth especially since the novels are almost always better than the film adaptations. The Passage novel is just simply amazing from start to finish.. I just wished the script landed in a directors hands who actually cares about character development because the novel has so much of it! The show tried but at the end I felt myself not being fulfilled by the story vs the novel. So much was left out; they could’ve made The Passage a trilogy breaking the movie up into three parts hence Twlight, The Hunger Game etc. I hope someday us fans get a true movie from this amazing novel… I truly

[bobreil]

I love alternate histories and what-if timelines and the more believable they are the more they lean on factual established science the more it allows me to indulge my imagination and ignore any small inconsistencies that might ruin the Illusion for me

[peytonwalker]

*it's amazing how he brought vampire lore to explainable science, it connects so perfectly, it's almost like it could happen...which would be awesome I would love to be a vampire.* 😅

[davidstevenson]

I told everyone at work that this book was great

[macrosense]

Since it is caused by a virus, the odds are some percentage of the victims would retain their sapience or just re-grow new sapience.