![]() Subtext counts for a lot here: McCammon knows his readers will be familiar with vampire lore, and he knows that our imaginations will provide the dark atmosphere and the creeping terror, with only a few, well-chosen words to get us in the right frame of mind. Lawson is a tragic hero, and his story is hauntingly sad. ![]() McCammon demonstrates once again-not that any proof was needed at this point-that he is one of the masters of the horror genre. When a man begs Lawson to ransom his daughter from the clutches of a madman (a madman who, by the way, specifically required that Lawson deliver the ransom), Trevor hopes this is his chance to save himself. ![]() His only hope: find LaRouge and kill her before he has completely turned from man to vampire. ![]() Wounded at the Battle of Shiloh, he was bitten by the vampire LaRouge, and now, a quarter century later, he lives a tortured life, the humanity slowly draining out of him. There’s a good reason Civil War veteran Trevor Lawson travels by night: he’s a vampire. ![]()
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