The homeless disappear. It happens every day in a large city. Have they moved away? Gone into rehab? Died of overdoses and carted away, nameless, to the city morgue? No one seems to care, except a small band of people who live in tents and boxes on the sidewalks. They know their friends have been taken by the Whistlers, animals that hunt in the park to feed their vampire masters. The homeless in the know have escaped from the Whistlers and the vampires, who live in the basement of After Dark, a historic restaurant near the city's new baseball stadium, a hub of city life.

With limited resources, junkies with names like Overboard George, Mad Maggie, and Old Harriet, using an old horror movie fan magazine as a guide, join forces to fight the undead.

Before she flees from the east coast, the ancient vampiress Eva unwittingly leaves a tantalizing clue the amateur vampire hunters find and use to follow her across the country. Meanwhile, Eva has kidnapped Lisa, Jimmy, and Bo and taken them with her to the west coast, where she has joined another and larger vampire colony, a colony where she does not exactly fit in. To exact her revenge on the vampire hunters, Eva plans too sacrifice Lisa and her baby in a black mass that will give her even more power. It is up to the vampire hunters and the Brethren, fierce vampire fighters, to find and attack the vampire colony before their friends are murdered.

The After Dark Series concludes with The Reluctant Vampire, the third novel in the trilogy, as newly minted vampire Bo Bentwood looks for love, struggles with his vow never to take a human life, and avoids the Brethren and their lethal crossbow arrows on a trip back to his Midwest hometown with trusty servant Kazmer Savoy, who does his best to train Bo in the ways of the undead.

As Bo leads a trail of bodies and missing people across several states, the amateur vampire hunters and the Brethren begin their own search for Bo. They will not rest until Bo is staked.

Why is Mammoth home to so much paranormal activity? Who knows? Maybe it's the water or the air. These eleven short stories are all set in and around the fictional city in the heart of Pennsylvania's hard coal region. Named after a forty-foot-thick vein of anthracite that helped fuel the new country's industrial revolution, it is the type of place where almost anything can happen. Buy a home and you might find the place is haunted. New neighbors could have a circus sideshow oddity that comes to life. Somebody down the block might own a ghoul or belong to a blood-swilling cult. Go out at night and you surely will run into a vampire. Just for fun, you might find a reincarnated serial killer. The list goes on and on.

The Mammoth vein exists. So do the abandoned coal mines and cemeteries that are featured in some of the stories. Some characters and places appear in more than one story. Enjoy!