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“You’ll want to step aside now,’ I said, lowering my voice, almost growling the words, becoming that avenging bullshit bloodsucker so popular with the women who read the silly ParaRom pulp I mentioned earlier.”

“Its eyes were bluish, ultraviolet holes punched into the fabric of space. Now there’s a sentence even Lovecraft would have been proud of. But I’m not gonna take it back. That’s what I saw, until I had the good sense to look away. That’s what I still see sometimes when I close my eyes.”

“But let’s get down to business, because as you may have guessed, the clock is ticking, and there’s not so much time remaining as you may think there is. The wolves are at the door.”

Chapter 7 : Burning Down The House.

“Ignorance ain’t bliss, theirs or anyone else’s; it’s nothing but ignorance, plain and simple, and it rarely leads to anything good.”

“A raven is like a writing desk because it can produce a few notes, though they are very flat. And it is never put with the wrong end in front.”

“The all-purpose werepire.” “Werepire?” “Would you prefer vampwolf, dear? By the way, there’s blood in your hair. Also, don’t eat the neighbors’ cat, or any of the neighbors, for that matter. Draws attention.”

“Styled himself all things dark and spooky—an exorcist, parapsychologist, occultist, palm reader, practitioner of witchcraft and voodoo, UFOlogist, a magician with ties to the Illuminati, an escape artist, clairvoyant, and all-around psychic, but was, at best, a sort of cut-rate Van Helsing. I think he’d just spent too much time watching Scooby-Doo and Peter Cushing films.”

“Speaking generally, you see two sorts of vampires in novels and the movies. You see clean, fastidious vampires, and you see filthy wretches that can’t be bothered with the likes of hygiene. Truth is, all the primping and perfume in the world only does a half-assed job of covering up the facts. There’s only so many ways you can beautify a corpse.”

“At first, I killed to get even. I killed and called it payback. But after a while, I was just killing because it felt good.”