These Bleak Atrocities

Prentiss wants to grieve his father’s death in peace. Instead, he becomes entangled in the snare of a vampire--a trap that was baited and set long before he was born. The vampire pursuing him is Newland Straffon, a former doctor who found a cure for his own paralysis after achieving immortality. Over the course of one harrowing evening, Prentiss uncovers the truth about his father’s past, and about his own cursed lineage. The games that Newland plays are theatrical and bloody, but in the end, there is no winner--just one atrocity committed after another.