A Stake in the Heart of a Nation
The movies get it wrong -- all wrong. When a vampire is staked through the heart, there is no gory splatter of blood and viscera -- no...
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The Black Death
"Bring out your dead." Door to door the hooded cartsman rolls his lumbering pallet piled high with bruised ebony bodies of bloodied black...