The Dracula Index

Vampire Epoch #1

by M. Clifford

The Wasteland. A woman screams in the night. Spotlights flash on a pile of dust in the desolate patch of land that lay just beyond the tall crosses that picket the boundary of Encampment R-34. A group of curious students leave their bunkhouse to investigate. They are caught by the Elders and punished.

Commencement Day. When job appointments are handed out, Mell and Bryne hear the worst news of all – they are assigned the life-job of General Task and will be working on the expansion plan that takes them beyond the safety of the camp.

Fate leads the inquisitive pair into the ruined skeleton of a deserted encampment, and a working computer called the Chronoscope. After scanning a journal they unearthed from the Wasteland into the terminal, a collection of centuries old letters associated with keywords in the journal is compiled. New data about Patient Zero uploads to a detachable reader. It is called the Dracula Index.

VAMPIRE EPOCH is a series of “mashup fiction”, merging original content with work from the public domain. Here, in this post-apocalyptic landscape, you are given the opportunity to experience your favorite stories…re-vamp’d.

175 pages, Paperback

First published August 29, 2015

About the author

M. Clifford was born in 1978 in a suburb of Chicago. He grew up in a forest-encroached neighborhood called Northwoods, where the embers of his imagination were kindled during solitary treks through the wilderness. M. wrote his first book, 'The Bullet That Never Stopped', on his mother's rickety green typewriter at the prudent age of eight and three-quarters. While dating his wife in college, he wrote numerous stories, including novel-length additions to her favorite books, giving those beloved characters new adventures. In 2006, he began his career as an indie author. His debut novel, "The Book", is being taught in high schools as a companion to Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" and Orwell's "1984".

His multi-genre collection includes The Muse of Edouard Manet, The Book, Felinian, Fertile Crescent, Propaganda, The Dracula Index, and #WhoIsLerosy.

M. Clifford lives by the beach in Los Angeles with his wife and son.

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