Visitors (Buffy novel)

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages) This article includes a improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (December 2007) (Learn how and when to remove this template message ) The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for books. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Find sources: "Visitors" Buffy novel – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (November 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Visitors is an original novel based on the U.S. television series

Plot summary

Buffy notices that, while patrolling, she's being stalked by a demon that emits a high pitched giggle. After discussion and research with Giles, they discover that Buffy's being stalked by a 'Korred'; a nasty hairy beast that feeds on peoples life forces by making them dance to his magical song until they die. The Korred is particularly attracted to Buffy because of her Slayer aura. Buffy must stop the Korred before he makes her dance to her death.

Continuity

• Supposed to be set late in Buffy season 3.
• Ethan Rayne
  appears in this story, presumably after his appearance in season three's "Band Candy."
• Buffyverse canon characters include: Buffy, Xander, Willow, Giles, Angel, Cordelia, Oz, Joyce, Ethan Rayne, Devon, Jonathan, Principal Snyder
• Buffyverse non-canon characters include: Gerald Panner (Watcher); Sheila, C.B., Rebecca, Elaine, Miriam (student teachers)
• The concept of a demon making Buffy dance to death is used later on by the demon Sweet in the season six musical episode "Once More, with Feeling".

Canonical issues

• Interview with Laura Anne Gilman and Josepha Sherman at Watcher's Web. Includes questions/answers about Visitors.

Reviews

• Litefoot1969.bravepages.com – Review of this book by Litefoot
• Teen-books.com – Reviews of this book
• Nika-summers.com – Review of this book by Nika Summers
• Shadowcat.name – Review of this book

This article about a 1990s fantasy novel is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. See guidelines for writing about novels. Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page.

• v
• t
• e