I struggled with what to call this list. Creepiest vampires? My most influential vampires? However, I never struggled with the novels that would be on the list. Recently, Gallery published Seize the Night: New Tales of Vampiric Terror, an anthology I edited as a way of planting a flag in the midst of vampire fiction […]
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Fighting Boredom as a cop?
Back when I was a beat cop working 999 Response (911 calls) in Liverpool, England, I had a partner named Jimmy. Jimmy was one of those old school cops who had joined the job as a cadet aged 16, and was coming up to having over thirty years in the uniform. We hit it off […]
German Beer Halls and Murder
“Be ready for dinner at 7:00,” my new German friend told me. “Where are we going?” “Hofbrauhaus,” I was told. A huge beer hall where I could get Wiener Schnitzel and drink pitchers of Paulaner. Sounded good to me. I went to my room to get ready but found myself wondering. There I was in […]