by Michael West
So I take my leave of you. Do with this recounting what you will. The night is nearly upon us.
An article in yesterday’s New Yorker listed Dracula as one of the best-selling books of all time. To this date, it is estimated that somewhere around five million copies in twenty different languages have been sold.
So many readers. So many pages turned.
And he grows stronger with each word read.
There will come a night, he said.
I fear it may be sooner than we think.
I shall lay down my head for the last time now.
God go with you in all the damned places that you walk.
Soon, such places shall be all there are.
—Charles Fort, the Bronx, May 3, 1942.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Michael West is the critically-acclaimed author of The Wide Game, Cinema of Shadows, Spook House, Skull Full of Kisses, and The Legacy of the Gods series. He lives and works in the Indianapolis area with his wife, their two children, their bird, Rodan, their turtle, Gamera, and their dog, King Seesar.
His favorite vampires reside in Stephen King’s classic novel, ’Salem’s Lot, and in the films Fright Night, Near Dark, and Let the Right One In. When sunlight hits them, they all burst into flames, as it should be.
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright
Permissions
Dedication
TAKING BACK THE NIGHT Introduction by Michael West
A NEW LIFE by J.F. Gonzalez
WHAT ONCE WAS FLESH by Tim Waggoner
THE DARKTON CIRCUS MYSTERY by Elizabeth Massie
ROBOT VAMPIRE by R.J. Sullivan
BENEATH A TEMPLAR CROSS by Gord Rollo
THE WEAPON OF MEMORY by Kyle S. Johnson
THE EXCAVATION by Stephen Zimmer
SKRAELING by Joel A. Sutherland
DREAMS OF WINTER by Bob Freeman
DRACULAS WINKEE: BLOODSUCKER BLUES by Gregory L. Hall
I FUCK YOUR SUNSHINE by Lucy A. Snyder
A SOLDIER'S STORY by Marice Broaddus
RATTENKONIG by Douglas R. Warrick
VAMPIRE NATION by Jerry Gordon
CURTAIN CALL by Gary A. Braunbeck
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