Spark and Burn

Spark and Burn is an original novel based on the U.S. television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Spark and Burn
First edition cover
AuthorDiana G. Gallagher
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SeriesBuffy the Vampire Slayer
GenreHorror novel
PublisherPocket Books
Publication date
July 26, 2005
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages256
ISBN1-4165-0237-8
OCLC60513429
Preceded byMortal Fear 
Followed byQueen of the Slayers 

Plot summary

Spike was born in the nineteenth century as a gentle, intellectual boy named William. As a young adult, he meets a woman called Drusilla, a mysterious vampire. William eventually becomes Spike.

He travels Europe with a band of vicious vampires, Dru, Darla, and Angelus. They show him his new existence, and from them he finds out about that most serious of enemies to vampires, one girl in all the world chosen to fight the vampires and the forces of darkness, the Slayer.

Having found a soul in Africa in the twenty-first century, Spike is tormented by the first evil and the guilt of his vampiric evils. He recalls many of the events that would lead him to the madness in the hell-influenced basement of the new Sunnydale High School.

Continuity
  • Most of the story is supposed to be set during the seventh season episode "Lessons". However the memories Spike recalls span the whole of Spike's history in the Buffyverse. For example why he was on a World War II sub ("Why We Fight"), and his earlier memories of the Scooby gang whilst he spied on them in "Reptile Boy".

Canonical issues
Main article: Buffyverse canon

Buffy books such as this one are not usually considered by fans as canonical. Some fans consider them stories from the imaginations of authors and artists, while other fans consider them as taking place in an alternative fictional reality. However unlike fan fiction, overviews summarising their story, written early in the writing process, were 'approved' by both Fox and Joss Whedon (or his office), and the books were therefore later published as officially Buffy/Angel merchandise.

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See also

Spike comics
  • Old Times
  • Spike vs Dracula
  • Old Wounds
  • Lost and Found
  • Spike & Dru
  • Asylum

Spike novels
  • Blackout
  • Pretty Maids All in a Row
  • Spark and Burn

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