The Multi-Award-Winning Vampire Saga
A cult classic since 2008
“Bennett’s ‘Underwood and Flinch’ saga is the best hidden literary gem in existence. Experience the same thrill you have when you find an unsigned underground band that blows your mind.”
- P.J. Parrish. Editor-in-Chief: Tennessee Valley Business Journal
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All David Flinch ever wanted was a normal life. But when you’re a member of the Flinch family, normal died a long time ago.
For hundreds of years, the eldest-born male Flinch has become servant and guardian to the vampire, Lord Underwood. While the Flinches have changed through the generations, Underwood has remained eternal. David had hoped to be spared the horror of serving his family’s lord and master, but when he is summoned to the family home in Spain by his dying older brother, he knows his luck has run out.
After fifty years of slumber, Underwood is to be resurrected from the grave in a ritual of human sacrifice, and David, by right of succession, is to be his resurrector. But there is another Flinch, one who craves the role of guardian to the vampire: David’s sister, Lydia. It’s a job she intends to have, even if it means making David’s the first blood shed in this new age of Underwood and Flinch.
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About Underwood & Flinch
Underwood and Flinch is a podcast audio novel by Mike Bennett, that was serialised from December 2008 to July 2012. It won the Parsec Award for Best Small Cast Story (Long Form) two years running in 2012 and 2013.
The original novel was intended as a standalone work, but responding to audience demand, Mike wrote a second U&F book, Underwood & Flinch: Blood and Smoke, that served as both a sequel and a historical prequel to the original. The podcast won the Parsec Award for Best Novella in 2014.
Following the completion of Blood and Smoke, the U&F Saga (as it had by then become) continued, with Mike writing and recording monthly episodes of the ongoing adventures of Underwood and Flinch for his supporters at Patreon. At the time of writing this, there are over 100 episodes of the podcast available online.
Underwood and Flinch, like all Mike’s works, contains swearing, scenes of violence, and occasional sexual scenes, that many parents would not consider suitable for children.
About Mike Bennett
Mike Bennett is a British-Irish author and audio storyteller, a five-time Parsec Award winner best known for the Underwood and Flinch series. He has built a loyal international following podcasting his own work since the medium’s earliest days.
Mike started writing fiction in the late 1990s as a mature student at the University of Brighton, and self-published his first novel, One Among the Sleepless, in 2002. It sold well, but the experience of self-publishing left him disillusioned, and he stepped away from writing for several years.
He returned to it in 2006, when podcasting was still in its infancy, by serialising One Among the Sleepless as a podcast audiobook. He followed it with a podcast of his short story collection, Hall of Mirrors, and then Underwood and Flinch, a novel inspired by an earlier period of his living in rural Andalucía. He has since added the zombie apocalypse novella After the Plague to his work, and continued the Underwood and Flinch saga with novels including Underground, In Tenebris, and The Devil of Claverton, funded directly by his listenership on Patreon, where he has podcast since 2015.
Before turning to fiction full-time, Mike spent thirteen years teaching English as a second language across Ireland, Spain, and England. He now lives in Wexford, Ireland, with his wife and two rescue dogs.
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Reviews and testimonials for Underwood & Flinch
“If you think vampire tales are a worn-out genre, Underwood and Flinch will shock and delight you.”
- Walt Kolenda, Examiner.com
“A massive story, and very, very original.”
- C.Griffin. Amazon.com
“Do you like vampires? You'll love this! Do you like drama? You'll love this! Do you like to be entertained? ....Look, I'll level with you, if you want to listen to the best vampire story of all time then stop looking because you've found it!”
- S.P. Morris. Amazon.co.uk
“Mike Bennett has done something I thought was impossible: take the played-out cliche of the vampire novel and make it something new and brilliant.”
- Makaya Sanger. Amazon.com
“A phenomenal story in the old tradition of blood, gore, romance, and deep, well-drawn characters who struggle through very real moral dilemmas."
- Stephen Fryer. Smashwords.com
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