There was a time when the universe was young and Cosmic Laws written. Our progenitors were born into a broken world. Why was it broken? The answer is simple: Cosmic Laws were broken. Cheating death is the ultimate taboo, and karma is a dish best served long after the fact. But when dealing with immortal beings, they have more than enough time to live in the ugly world they’ve created; karma becomes the very air they breathe. Love. Lust. Hate. Jealousy. Travel throughout the world 70,000 years ago. Learn the origins of the major players: Ascended Humans, Vampires, Rogues, Shamans, the Great Pyramids, and much more. Learn the ancient names, the precursors to their modern iterations. Follow Arson, Ramanlese, Illgress, Goser, Tomakis, Hemily, and Jezzeria from Eden to hell. Follow Zento, Ekka, Edril, Bestick, Ry-ala, Ephisiostecles, Roch, Mephiantone, Rubidicus, Karianus, Styre, Vane, and Marschelle through their many stories. Their world was a world of sadness, crisis, loss, but some happiness. Right or wrong, their stories are told. There were no true winners nor losers, and aspects of each will endure till the end of time. The gray just got a whole lot grayer.

Bridget Felderman was an investigative journalist investigating the disappearance of a drug addict, stripper named Sam in Baltimore who allegedly later re-emerged as a vampire from a mysterious group called The Order. Oddly, before Bridget could publish her work, she approached me, H.S. Darke, a colleague of hers, and bequeathed to me all of her research and notes, and then she apparently died shortly thereafter. Her Death Certificate read, “Cause of Death: Natural Causes.” As she was no longer with us, I published her version under my name in 2013. Years later, I was approached by interested parties, some who were rather mysterious, fascinating, and a few frankly a little intimidating, but they insisted I write the true version of events, so I agreed. I was led to believe that the original, published version was a corrupted narrative built around a rather Bridget-centric slant. Therefore, I was instructed to add as little color as possible to the actual events that took place so that the interested parties’ legacy in novel form be accurate enough to imbue respect and possibly fear, for they are apparently wealthy, hidden, and very powerful. Travel throughout the city of Baltimore into the darkest depths of society to seek answers to the many questions about Sam, her disappearance, and subsequent transformation.

In Dark Courtesan, book one of the Lunar Vampire Chronicles, Fallen vampire James was the antagonist. As an enemy of the Order, a collective of vampires living in service to the lunar goddess Lue’lla, he was the subject of justifiable derision and loathing. The Fall of James rewinds the centuries to the time of America’s founding, revealing the circumstances and dimensions of one of the most complex figures in the Lunar Vampire universe, and peeling back the layers on the Order of vampires to expose a world that is seldom merely black and white. Within his time in the Order, James would find himself unwittingly assaulted by fate—but fate alone could not describe his fall from grace. Follow the Order vampires in their travels around the globe. Witness their knowledge and motivations, secrets and missions, and discover their place in the historical fabric of the world, as the dark and hidden counterparts to Russian soldiers, American politicians, and English royalty. Afterward, trace their stories even further back in time, to the very origin of the Order itself, in book three, Ancient Wars.

A sleepy Colorado town harbors a deadly secret; ancient covens of vampires, battled by an unlikely hero-- a pizza delivery driver. Jack Holladay finds himself violently dragged into the world of the supernatural. He soon learns that things do go bump in the night, but even in the darkest of nights a romantic flame can spark. One thing is for sure, his life will never be the same.

Dealing with divorce is never easy to do, especially when a child is involved. But Brian was having a particularly hard time. It seemed he never got over losing Angelica to her new lover, but that wasn't the greatest loss he'd faced. If ever there was a guardian angel in his life, perhaps he was no further away than his best friend Jason. While Jason seemed an unlikely candidate to be a guardian angel in the biblical or even noblest sense of the term, he may have what it takes to save Brian from his own demise. But that's a big maybe.

Few books have so seized the public imagination as Bram Stoker's Dracula, even more popular now than when it was first published in 1897. This critical work represents a rereading of the horror classic as a Christian text, one that alchemizes Platonism, Gnosticism, Mariology and Christian resurrection in a tale that explores the grotesque. Of particular interest is the way in which the Dracula narrative emerges from earlier vampire tales, which juxtapose Apollonian and Dionysian impulses. A strong addition to vampire and horror scholarship.

Grab a stake, a fistful of garlic, a crucifix and holy water as you enter the dark, blood-curdling world of the original pain in the neck in this ultimate collection of vampire facts, fangs, and fiction! What accounts for the undying fascination people have for vampires? How did encounters with death create centuries-old myths and folklore in virtually every culture in the world? When did the early literary vampires—as pictured by Goethe, Coleridge, Shelly, Polidori, Byron, and Nodier as the personifications of man’s darker side—transform from villains into today’s cultural rebels? Showing how vampire-like creatures organically formed in virtually every part of the world, The Vampire Almanac: The Complete History by renowned religion expert and fearless vampire authority J. Gordon Melton, Ph.D., examines the historic, societal, and psychological role the vampire has played—and continues to play—in understanding death, man’s deepest desires, and human pathologies. It analyzes humanity’s lusts, fears, and longing for power and the forbidden! Today, the vampire serves as a powerful symbol for the darker parts of the human condition, touching on death, immortality, forbidden sexuality, sexual power and surrender, intimacy, alienation, rebellion, violence, and a fascination with the mysterious. The vampire is often portrayed as a symbolic leader advocating an outrageous alternative to the demands of conformity. Vampires can also be tools for scapegoating such as when women are called “vamps” and bosses are described as “bloodsuckers.” Meet all of the villains, anti-heroes, and heroes of myths, legends, books, films, and television series across cultures and today’s pop culture in The Vampire Almanac. It assembles and analyzes hundreds of vampiric characters, people, and creatures, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vlad the Impaler, Edward Cullen and The Twilight Saga, Bram Stoker, Lestat De Lioncourt and The Vampire Chronicles, Lon Chaney, True Blood, Bela Lugosi, Dracula, Dark Shadows, Lilith, Vampire Weekend, Batman, Nosferatu, and so many more. There is a lot to sink your teeth into with this deep exhumation of the undead. Quench your thirst for facts, histories, biographies, definitions, analysis, immortality, and more! This gruesomely thorough book of vampire facts also has a helpful bibliography, an extensive index, and numerous photos, adding to its usefulness.