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Vampire Winter
PINNACLE BOOKS DECEMBER 1990 FIRST PRINT PAPERBACK
The Tomb cracked.
Kittredge felt the shock deep in his vault an hour before dusk. The reinforced concrete walls cracked like eggshells; the steel door seemed to melt. Something was wrong and as he felt the heat that blasted past his tomb, the vampire tasted fear. In an hour, when the sun had set, he would emerge to feed and see what had happened.
The vampire walked.
What he saw stilled even his bloodlust. Chicago was a ruin, burning on the horizon. The destruction seemed total, but he had to find survivors; if no one lived, he would not be able to feed. And he had to avoid the flames flaring everywhere. He could feel the skin on his face blistering even at a distance, and fire was as deadly to him as he rays of the sun. The vampire needed shelter and he needed blood. At the first farmhouse, he discovered both.
And Kitteridge also discovered that he could hunt his prey whenever he wanted to, that had all hours of the day belonged to him. Because whatever had happened when he last slept in the darkness of his tomb, the result for him was that the sun was blocked from sight. He would be the hunter both day and night. And the vampire was hungry.
320 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 1990
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March 7, 2017
Vampire Winter is kind of a crazy book. It’s an apocalypse story, but it’s told mostly from the point of view of a vampire. And he’s not a sparkly vampire either. He’s been killing people for years when all of a sudden he wakes up to find the world is very cold and very dark after a nuclear attack. Since the sun is deadly, he’s actually somewhat elated to find it’s been blotted from the sky. However, when humans start dropping like flies and most of his food source is now contaminated with nuclear fallout, he realizes he’s in almost the same predicament as his prey. Now his goal is to find uncontaminated humans and then keep them alive, which actually turns out to be kind of humorous.
I actually liked this book, despite my usual grumblings about stories of this kind. Maybe I watched too many Twilight Zone episodes, but I get tired of survival stories were people bicker constantly. It’s why I hate The Walking Dead. Any short stories about five guys starving to death in a life raft do not interest me. And if the writing is really cheesy, they usually have annoying cringe worthy characters that you just can’t wait to be killed like, the hysterical woman, the numpty-headed bully, and the prepubescent amazeballs kid who knows way more than the adults. None of those annoying stock characters are in this book, which is very refreshing.
In fact, I think Lois Tilton did a really good job with her characters. None of them were true heroes and none of them true villains. They weren’t ridiculously stupid either, clinging to lame ideas, just waiting to be picked off. All the motivations for the characters seemed pretty clear. However, they do spend a lot of the book trying to kill each other and steal each other’s food. The book is pretty suspenseful with a few surprises. I actually liked the character of Kittredge. Yes he’s a deadly predator, but I was amused by his plight. He finds humans more than annoying, but yet now he has to work to keep them alive. He actually even grows somewhat fond of them.
This was a fast read. ****
I actually liked this book, despite my usual grumblings about stories of this kind. Maybe I watched too many Twilight Zone episodes, but I get tired of survival stories were people bicker constantly. It’s why I hate The Walking Dead. Any short stories about five guys starving to death in a life raft do not interest me. And if the writing is really cheesy, they usually have annoying cringe worthy characters that you just can’t wait to be killed like, the hysterical woman, the numpty-headed bully, and the prepubescent amazeballs kid who knows way more than the adults. None of those annoying stock characters are in this book, which is very refreshing.
In fact, I think Lois Tilton did a really good job with her characters. None of them were true heroes and none of them true villains. They weren’t ridiculously stupid either, clinging to lame ideas, just waiting to be picked off. All the motivations for the characters seemed pretty clear. However, they do spend a lot of the book trying to kill each other and steal each other’s food. The book is pretty suspenseful with a few surprises. I actually liked the character of Kittredge. Yes he’s a deadly predator, but I was amused by his plight. He finds humans more than annoying, but yet now he has to work to keep them alive. He actually even grows somewhat fond of them.
This was a fast read. ****
February 27, 2009
What would a vampire do on "the day after"? How can he survive when the human population is wiped out almost completely in an instant and survivors are contaminated from the nuclear fallout?
When Blaine Kittredge first awakes to the endless dark it seems like paradise, not having to hide at daytime any longer. But the human population is reduced drastically by the catastrophe, and soon he learns that he can't sustain himself with blood that has been contaminated with radiation. Suddenly, he is forced to bargain with the victims he simply used to hunt before. Instead of killing them at will, he now has to control his bloodlust, only taking enough blood to satiate his thirst and ensuring the survival of his victims. Furthermore, he has to provide food and other necessities to keep them healthy, which becomes harder every day with looters roaming the area as well. Bit by bit, Kittredge seems to regain his own humanity and compassion for those he used to hunt without mercy.
A fascinating story, well-written and thrilling to the end. Highly recommendable.
When Blaine Kittredge first awakes to the endless dark it seems like paradise, not having to hide at daytime any longer. But the human population is reduced drastically by the catastrophe, and soon he learns that he can't sustain himself with blood that has been contaminated with radiation. Suddenly, he is forced to bargain with the victims he simply used to hunt before. Instead of killing them at will, he now has to control his bloodlust, only taking enough blood to satiate his thirst and ensuring the survival of his victims. Furthermore, he has to provide food and other necessities to keep them healthy, which becomes harder every day with looters roaming the area as well. Bit by bit, Kittredge seems to regain his own humanity and compassion for those he used to hunt without mercy.
A fascinating story, well-written and thrilling to the end. Highly recommendable.
March 27, 2021
I knew nothing of Lois Tilton's 1990 vampire novel Vampire Winter, in fact I knew nothing of Lois TIlton even though the author had written a few fantasy novels as well as Deep Space Nine and Babylon 5 novels over the years.
I never liked DS9 all that much (even though I'm a Star Trek fan) and I was not even aware of the B5 novels, which I may well have read if I had known of them.
But I cannot imagine that any of those works would be anything like Vampire Winter.
I would hesitate in calling Blaine Kitteridge, the vampire who wakes to a whole new world, as the novel's hero, but it is hard to think of him as anything else. Perhaps he is more of a hero because of what he is and what his biology drive him to do; perhaps warring against himself to be better is what a hero really is.
Kitteridge wakes one day to Armageddon. Literal nuclear Armageddon. Bombs fly and cities burn. Kitteridge wakes and flees the devastation under the veil of atomic dust that settles in the atmosphere, blocking out the sun that would kill him. The vampire flees and hides and it is only when his hiding place is invaded by would-be looters that something amazing occurs.
Blaine Kitteridge discovers that the sun has not yet returned, and the veil of darkness still holds over the land. He discovers that that only thing to which he is truly vulnerable, the sun, is now powerless, and he can walk the day that is no longer day.
Kitteridge dubs it Nightfall and anticipates the heaven the new world will be for his kind.
But things are no so simple for Kitteridge in Nightfall. There are marauders killing indiscriminately, wasting precious blood, and it does not take Kitteridge long to realise just how precious blood has become. Some people are tainted, radiation making them useless for his needs, and Kitteridge realises that if he wishes to survive he must protect those who can sustain him from those who cannot.
Blaine Kitteridge, vampire and predator becomes Blaine Kitteridge, reluctant protector.
But all those he must protect would rather not be cattle, because of course, that's all they really are.
Over the years I have read many vampire novels, an unhealthy amount some think, and though many of them have been entertaining reads few rose to a quality that allowed them to stay in my mind for long.
There are obvious examples that have of course, but their number range in the tens, not hundreds, and real quality and originality is often few and far between.
I feel fortunate to add another book to the short list of vampire novels that I see as having "true quality".
Of course this is subjective, extremely so, but its hard to imagine that many would argue that the book that Lois Tilton has produced displays such quality. Not only did the author manage to combine two very different sub-genres of book, vampire fiction with post-apocalyptic fiction, but she managed to combine them in a cinematic way that begs to be made into a movie.
While depravity rages on around Kitteridge, Lois TIlton manages to draw the humanity out of him. Its a long process, a painful one, and Kitteridge himself seems unaware of the fact that he slowly begins to see the people around him as companions rather than just food. What begins as their mere utility to him becomes a value that mystifies Kitteridge. He feels this value, but he does not understand it.
Ultimately Blaine Kitteridge does not realise that, human or not, with each passing day in Nightfall he is becoming more human than many of the humans around him.
I never liked DS9 all that much (even though I'm a Star Trek fan) and I was not even aware of the B5 novels, which I may well have read if I had known of them.
But I cannot imagine that any of those works would be anything like Vampire Winter.
I would hesitate in calling Blaine Kitteridge, the vampire who wakes to a whole new world, as the novel's hero, but it is hard to think of him as anything else. Perhaps he is more of a hero because of what he is and what his biology drive him to do; perhaps warring against himself to be better is what a hero really is.
Kitteridge wakes one day to Armageddon. Literal nuclear Armageddon. Bombs fly and cities burn. Kitteridge wakes and flees the devastation under the veil of atomic dust that settles in the atmosphere, blocking out the sun that would kill him. The vampire flees and hides and it is only when his hiding place is invaded by would-be looters that something amazing occurs.
Blaine Kitteridge discovers that the sun has not yet returned, and the veil of darkness still holds over the land. He discovers that that only thing to which he is truly vulnerable, the sun, is now powerless, and he can walk the day that is no longer day.
Kitteridge dubs it Nightfall and anticipates the heaven the new world will be for his kind.
But things are no so simple for Kitteridge in Nightfall. There are marauders killing indiscriminately, wasting precious blood, and it does not take Kitteridge long to realise just how precious blood has become. Some people are tainted, radiation making them useless for his needs, and Kitteridge realises that if he wishes to survive he must protect those who can sustain him from those who cannot.
Blaine Kitteridge, vampire and predator becomes Blaine Kitteridge, reluctant protector.
But all those he must protect would rather not be cattle, because of course, that's all they really are.
Over the years I have read many vampire novels, an unhealthy amount some think, and though many of them have been entertaining reads few rose to a quality that allowed them to stay in my mind for long.
There are obvious examples that have of course, but their number range in the tens, not hundreds, and real quality and originality is often few and far between.
I feel fortunate to add another book to the short list of vampire novels that I see as having "true quality".
Of course this is subjective, extremely so, but its hard to imagine that many would argue that the book that Lois Tilton has produced displays such quality. Not only did the author manage to combine two very different sub-genres of book, vampire fiction with post-apocalyptic fiction, but she managed to combine them in a cinematic way that begs to be made into a movie.
While depravity rages on around Kitteridge, Lois TIlton manages to draw the humanity out of him. Its a long process, a painful one, and Kitteridge himself seems unaware of the fact that he slowly begins to see the people around him as companions rather than just food. What begins as their mere utility to him becomes a value that mystifies Kitteridge. He feels this value, but he does not understand it.
Ultimately Blaine Kitteridge does not realise that, human or not, with each passing day in Nightfall he is becoming more human than many of the humans around him.
February 17, 2020
4.6 stars!
Top 30 all-time vampire novel.
The Tomb cracked. — Kittredge felt the shock deep in his vault an hour before dusk. The reinforced concrete walls cracked like eggshells; the steel door seemed to melt. Something was wrong and as he felt the heat that blasted past his tomb, the vampire tasted fear. In an hour, when the sun had set, he would emerge to feed and see what had happened.
-Lois Tilton
Post apocalyptic vampire horror. Terrifying vampire wondering thru a nuclear winter hunting n0n-radiated humans. After nukes, healthy humans are hard to find. The vampire has to practice rationing stupid humans. Very frustrating for vampires. Like running a business with lazy, uncooperative employees.
"Chicago was a ruin, burning on the horizon. The destruction seemed total, but he had to find survivors; if no one lived, he would not be able to feed. And he had to avoid the flames flaring everywhere. He could feel the skin on his face blistering even at a distance, and fire was as deadly to him as he rays of the sun."
-Lois Tilton
Essential, compulsory addition to any serious vampire collection.
Top 30 all-time vampire novel.
The Tomb cracked. — Kittredge felt the shock deep in his vault an hour before dusk. The reinforced concrete walls cracked like eggshells; the steel door seemed to melt. Something was wrong and as he felt the heat that blasted past his tomb, the vampire tasted fear. In an hour, when the sun had set, he would emerge to feed and see what had happened.
-Lois Tilton
Post apocalyptic vampire horror. Terrifying vampire wondering thru a nuclear winter hunting n0n-radiated humans. After nukes, healthy humans are hard to find. The vampire has to practice rationing stupid humans. Very frustrating for vampires. Like running a business with lazy, uncooperative employees.
"Chicago was a ruin, burning on the horizon. The destruction seemed total, but he had to find survivors; if no one lived, he would not be able to feed. And he had to avoid the flames flaring everywhere. He could feel the skin on his face blistering even at a distance, and fire was as deadly to him as he rays of the sun."
-Lois Tilton
Essential, compulsory addition to any serious vampire collection.
December 13, 2025
This is the vampire story I’ve been searching for…one where the vampire fights on the side of the humans, but not at all because he has any delusions of being moral.
Kittredge is not a “good” vampire in the least, but he is forced to help humans rather than simply prey on them when the nuclear fallout leaves few with blood untainted by radiation. He must protect people or starve by running out of “untainted” blood by continuing to kill as he was previously accustomed.
Some very thoughtful situations occur as Kittredge deals grudgingly with the social situations caused by protecting humans who do not get along with each other or himself. He grumps about how much food and water humans need, and their lack of appreciation for his efforts!
Also, games of chess come into play… literally the board game, not metaphorically. Odd situations such as one’s chess mentor also taking some of your blood every other week…
Kittredge changes through the novel, slowly, grudgingly, and it is a more believable change as he never is anthropomorphized into thinking like a human. His self-taught self-control is half bravado (don’t let the humans find out!) and always by the skin of his teeth, and more interestingly, absolutely selfish. He has no interest in “the greater good,” he just wants to get by.
Even if (occasionally) what he does seems a bit… heroic? Goodness, flee the thought!
Kittredge also cares not a lick what people think of him, which is rather a relief after watching too many episodes of “The Vampire Diaries,” where vampire characters claim they don’t care what humans think while they do things purely for that reason. Kittredge never tries to convince humans to like him, or is embarrassed by what he is, or tries to come up with excuses to justify his actions, which is a score in my book.
Be warned that intense things happen in this book, as might be expected of the way people react in an apocalyptic disaster of this sort.
Trigger Warnings:
Racist Characters
Gun Violence
Rape
Cannibalism
Kittredge is not a “good” vampire in the least, but he is forced to help humans rather than simply prey on them when the nuclear fallout leaves few with blood untainted by radiation. He must protect people or starve by running out of “untainted” blood by continuing to kill as he was previously accustomed.
Some very thoughtful situations occur as Kittredge deals grudgingly with the social situations caused by protecting humans who do not get along with each other or himself. He grumps about how much food and water humans need, and their lack of appreciation for his efforts!
Also, games of chess come into play… literally the board game, not metaphorically. Odd situations such as one’s chess mentor also taking some of your blood every other week…
Kittredge changes through the novel, slowly, grudgingly, and it is a more believable change as he never is anthropomorphized into thinking like a human. His self-taught self-control is half bravado (don’t let the humans find out!) and always by the skin of his teeth, and more interestingly, absolutely selfish. He has no interest in “the greater good,” he just wants to get by.
Even if (occasionally) what he does seems a bit… heroic? Goodness, flee the thought!
Kittredge also cares not a lick what people think of him, which is rather a relief after watching too many episodes of “The Vampire Diaries,” where vampire characters claim they don’t care what humans think while they do things purely for that reason. Kittredge never tries to convince humans to like him, or is embarrassed by what he is, or tries to come up with excuses to justify his actions, which is a score in my book.
Be warned that intense things happen in this book, as might be expected of the way people react in an apocalyptic disaster of this sort.
Trigger Warnings:
Racist Characters
Gun Violence
Rape
Cannibalism
June 4, 2019
This was definitely a good read and unique in the sense that for once we see a vampire in as much danger as humans and being forced to find ways to survive same as his prey.
The writing is easy on the eyes and we get to see a character evolve from the stereotype we hold vampires too. The background of the story an apocalypse is a time honored subject used to create panic and what if situations although usually the what if pertains to us the humans. Very nice to see it penetrating to our favorite blood suckers as well.
The writing is easy on the eyes and we get to see a character evolve from the stereotype we hold vampires too. The background of the story an apocalypse is a time honored subject used to create panic and what if situations although usually the what if pertains to us the humans. Very nice to see it penetrating to our favorite blood suckers as well.
November 3, 2025
It's sad, in my opinion, that this book is out of print and there's no ebook available. I was able to obtain an original copy for about $40 after a fair amount of looking. I've taken on the project of digitizing it myself by hand-typing every page because the thought of it becoming lost media is depressing to me.
The typing process makes every little writing quirk stand out to me, so I'll go into the negative part of my review here. The verbiage can be on the dry side and there are some little things that annoy me which don't matter (Starting each chapter with the POV character's full name in one of the first paragraphs, when their first names only matter when other family members are involved. Frequently starting sentences with "yet" and "but." Italicizing the words "know" and "knew" all the time.). The plain language means that you probably won't need to look up any of the words in this one. This can be good or bad. It's fast-paced and accessible, but sometimes I wish we had some more flowery descriptions.
The perspective shifts four ways from chapter to chapter: Kittredge the vampire in the present, Kittredge in the past, Greg (a hick who's hiding out with his neighbors), and Solokov (a doomsday prepper who was right all along). The two human POVs add flavor to Kittredge's story but I'll admit that I don't really care about either of them.
The book follows the vampire Kittredge and some groups of humans who are trying to ride out a nuclear apocalypse in Illinois. At first, the darkness of the nuclear winter seems like a sweet deal for a creature of the night. After an awkward road trip in a van full of humans, Kittredge learns that irradiated blood is straight up poisonous. He sets out to start collecting uncontaminated humans whom he must begrudgingly protect and provide for.
While Kittredge manages his human farm, he (mostly) unintentionally terrorizes Greg and Solokov's groups. Their nightmares, rumors, and accounts help remind us that Kittredge is a monster while the occasional flashback reminds us that he was human once. He never becomes too sympathetic, but he remains interesting throughout.
Overall, it's fun and creative. I liked the premise enough to drop $40 on a copy, I enjoy it enough to not want it to become lost and gone forever, and I feel that it's worth retyping in its entirety for preservation.
The typing process makes every little writing quirk stand out to me, so I'll go into the negative part of my review here. The verbiage can be on the dry side and there are some little things that annoy me which don't matter (Starting each chapter with the POV character's full name in one of the first paragraphs, when their first names only matter when other family members are involved. Frequently starting sentences with "yet" and "but." Italicizing the words "know" and "knew" all the time.). The plain language means that you probably won't need to look up any of the words in this one. This can be good or bad. It's fast-paced and accessible, but sometimes I wish we had some more flowery descriptions.
The perspective shifts four ways from chapter to chapter: Kittredge the vampire in the present, Kittredge in the past, Greg (a hick who's hiding out with his neighbors), and Solokov (a doomsday prepper who was right all along). The two human POVs add flavor to Kittredge's story but I'll admit that I don't really care about either of them.
The book follows the vampire Kittredge and some groups of humans who are trying to ride out a nuclear apocalypse in Illinois. At first, the darkness of the nuclear winter seems like a sweet deal for a creature of the night. After an awkward road trip in a van full of humans, Kittredge learns that irradiated blood is straight up poisonous. He sets out to start collecting uncontaminated humans whom he must begrudgingly protect and provide for.
While Kittredge manages his human farm, he (mostly) unintentionally terrorizes Greg and Solokov's groups. Their nightmares, rumors, and accounts help remind us that Kittredge is a monster while the occasional flashback reminds us that he was human once. He never becomes too sympathetic, but he remains interesting throughout.
Overall, it's fun and creative. I liked the premise enough to drop $40 on a copy, I enjoy it enough to not want it to become lost and gone forever, and I feel that it's worth retyping in its entirety for preservation.
March 21, 2020
Pretty tame but at least interesting vampire novel about a vampire surviving a nuclear war, reminiscent of a lighter EC-comics type "what-if?" story. Worth checking out if you're in the mood. If you're sick of vampires though, skip it.
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June 10, 2020want to read because of willow's review.
November 25, 2021
It's worth reading alone if you're starved for stories with vampires as they main character that act truly monsterous. It's unfortunately one of those books that only has it's strong premise and little else. Too bad the Prose or the story telling is disapointingly dry for the super natural premise. Given this is a small paperback novel it makes sense, that it's meant to be simply written. The characters are realistically written, but lack in distinctiveness that would give emotional investment. As this is one of her first novels I can hope that she may have improved these elements in her next vampire novel, Darkspawn.
June 7, 2024
It’s weird that in all the horror novels I’ve read involving vampires and nuclear apocalypses, Vampire Winter is the first I’ve read involving both at the same time.
Overall, the idea is sound as Tipton, in her debut novel, follows the titular vampire through a nuclear winter as he tries to survive and learn the ropes of coping with trying to dine on the remnants of humanity on the verge of extinction. There’s some decent ideas and a few moments that take the vampire sub genre in different directions than we are used to (no burning crosses, no absent reflections, no immediate turning after a vampire bite). Tilton also does a good job in giving some actual characterization to Kitridge, the main character.
The problems with Vampire Winter, however, are 2 fold. First, it’s incredibly uneven most of the time. Parts are well written and fast, while others feel like a repetitive slog, since we never really leave the town of Danby and eventually circle back to it at any opportunity. It’s also a novel that doesn’t always know what it wants to be. Is it a vampire novel? Is it a post apocalyptic survival story? The elements are there multiple times for both genres but it’s not handled as deftly as this could have been with a more refined and practiced author…of which Robert McCammon’s vampire genre bending They Thirst comes to mind.
Obviously I didn’t hate Vampire Winter and I give Tilton major props for trying something different, but I definitely didn’t love this one. Still though, it’s a decent example of something unique that isn’t flat out terrible.
Overall, the idea is sound as Tipton, in her debut novel, follows the titular vampire through a nuclear winter as he tries to survive and learn the ropes of coping with trying to dine on the remnants of humanity on the verge of extinction. There’s some decent ideas and a few moments that take the vampire sub genre in different directions than we are used to (no burning crosses, no absent reflections, no immediate turning after a vampire bite). Tilton also does a good job in giving some actual characterization to Kitridge, the main character.
The problems with Vampire Winter, however, are 2 fold. First, it’s incredibly uneven most of the time. Parts are well written and fast, while others feel like a repetitive slog, since we never really leave the town of Danby and eventually circle back to it at any opportunity. It’s also a novel that doesn’t always know what it wants to be. Is it a vampire novel? Is it a post apocalyptic survival story? The elements are there multiple times for both genres but it’s not handled as deftly as this could have been with a more refined and practiced author…of which Robert McCammon’s vampire genre bending They Thirst comes to mind.
Obviously I didn’t hate Vampire Winter and I give Tilton major props for trying something different, but I definitely didn’t love this one. Still though, it’s a decent example of something unique that isn’t flat out terrible.
April 4, 2012
This book, Lois Tilton's first published, does an extraordinary job of getting into the head of an extremely unpleasant, inhuman creature. The vampire Kittredge is as nasty, unsympathetic, and cold a predator as you would not care to meet. At the beginning of the story, nuclear weapons destroy Chicago nearby, and civilization elsewhere, and Kittredge finds himself having to husband his resources rather than simply prey on them because he must have live humans' blood to survive, and uncontaminated by radiation at that, and there aren't enough for him to just kill them as he likes.
The story unfolds as the vampire works uneasily with a small community of humans to keep them alive and safe. By the end of the story he is different. Not any more human, still unpleasant, but different.
It's an interesting piece of writing, a good antidote to the sorts of stories where vampires are swoony, romantic immortal humans. There's almost nothing human about Kittredge, and yet his motives and actions are understandable.
The story unfolds as the vampire works uneasily with a small community of humans to keep them alive and safe. By the end of the story he is different. Not any more human, still unpleasant, but different.
It's an interesting piece of writing, a good antidote to the sorts of stories where vampires are swoony, romantic immortal humans. There's almost nothing human about Kittredge, and yet his motives and actions are understandable.
July 31, 2012
I found this to be a very enjoyable read. The characters are well developed and fleshed out. The story follows Kittredge, an ancient vampire who must face life and survival in a new world of perpetual darkness in the fallout of nuclear winter. The story was well thought out and original. I also enjoyed the 'old school' vampire feel of this novel, Kittredge fights his blood lust tooth and nail, not for love, not for any 'mortal feelings' but simply for the need to survive.
Overall a very interesting and enjoyable read, one that I will be happy to visit again in the future.
Overall a very interesting and enjoyable read, one that I will be happy to visit again in the future.
July 19, 2013
When the sun sets
and it's not quite night.
I am freed from danger.
It's fierce, it's bright.
But one day a city does fall.
And I am free to roam,
day or night, my call.
By Nikki
This story is about a vampire who has to protect some humans in order to feed as Chicago is a ruin and the sun had been blacked out.
It was very tame. Most of the people didn't believe Kittredge was a vampire even though he bit people on the neck.
Even for 1990 is was on the lame side.
and it's not quite night.
I am freed from danger.
It's fierce, it's bright.
But one day a city does fall.
And I am free to roam,
day or night, my call.
By Nikki
This story is about a vampire who has to protect some humans in order to feed as Chicago is a ruin and the sun had been blacked out.
It was very tame. Most of the people didn't believe Kittredge was a vampire even though he bit people on the neck.
Even for 1990 is was on the lame side.
December 19, 2020
Awesome story combining vampires with the apocalypse.
February 2, 2016
Here's a new twist on the typical vampire story. What happens to a vampire in a post-apocalyptic world? If he wants to survive, he learns to work with humans and he develops a conscience.
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