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Return of the Richmond Vampire
If you were on your last breaths and someone offered you more time, would you take it?
In October 1925, Benjamin Mosby was shovelling coal in a locomotive when a train tunnel collapsed. Bloodied with flesh hanging off his bones he encountered a stranger under a flatcar who offered him a second chance. This is a story of what he did and the repercussions it had upon him and the wider world at large.
In a series of journal entries, Return of the Richmond Vampire divulges the startling events that unfold in the aftermath of the Church Hill Tunnel collapse and the urban legend it spawned. In the aftermath of the tunnel's cave-in upon locomotive and crew, a saw-toothed bloodied beast emerged out of the tunnel's eastern portal then disappeared into the eerie chamber of William Wortham Pool's mausoleum. From then on dubbed the Richmond Vampire, the beast has not been seen since, until now.
Mainly taking place in the Fall of 2025, this illustrated novel recounts the bizarre and horrifying return of a vampire and its prophetic implications for a readership living in Convergence, where our world and the Otherworld are colliding. Can you retain your sanity amidst the inquiry? In this revised edition, new material is introduced bringing into focus impending events which will effect Richmond and the wider world. Find out what, but...
Beware the Thin Places!
In October 1925, Benjamin Mosby was shovelling coal in a locomotive when a train tunnel collapsed. Bloodied with flesh hanging off his bones he encountered a stranger under a flatcar who offered him a second chance. This is a story of what he did and the repercussions it had upon him and the wider world at large.
In a series of journal entries, Return of the Richmond Vampire divulges the startling events that unfold in the aftermath of the Church Hill Tunnel collapse and the urban legend it spawned. In the aftermath of the tunnel's cave-in upon locomotive and crew, a saw-toothed bloodied beast emerged out of the tunnel's eastern portal then disappeared into the eerie chamber of William Wortham Pool's mausoleum. From then on dubbed the Richmond Vampire, the beast has not been seen since, until now.
Mainly taking place in the Fall of 2025, this illustrated novel recounts the bizarre and horrifying return of a vampire and its prophetic implications for a readership living in Convergence, where our world and the Otherworld are colliding. Can you retain your sanity amidst the inquiry? In this revised edition, new material is introduced bringing into focus impending events which will effect Richmond and the wider world. Find out what, but...
Beware the Thin Places!
308 pages, Hardcover
Published March 27, 2023
About the author
Jon Rakestraw
3 books2 followersJON RAKESTRAW is a writer, doodler and eschatologist who enjoys investigating unusual tales and phenomena. Born in Pakistan to diplomatic parents, he then lived in England for a short spell before coming to America where he plied his trade as a technical trainer and writer on various military and intelligence contracts. Now retired from that world, he has co-written The Mostly True Stories of Trudi Hierholzer and is the author of Billy Fellin’s Great Catch. His debut novel, Return of the Richmond Vampire is available in hardcover and ebook. A graduate of Kenyon College he now resides in Cornwall.
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September 25, 2026
I've added new illustrations to the edition and developed more of the action. Enjoy!
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