Vile Things Like Us: a Vampire Novella

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets What We Do in the Shadows in this heartwarming tale that challenges everything you thought you knew about vampires. Because vampires are nothing like you’ve been told…When a cure for vampirism is advertised, four weary strangers meet in a waiting room, hoping for their long-anticipated deaths. The only problem is the research team lied. The cure doesn’t exist, at least not yet. If they can find patient zero—that is, the first vampire—they might be able to study the mutation and develop an antidote.Luke used to be a cowboy in the wild west. Now, he sleeps under a bridge and fights nightly with his affinity for the blood of cocaine addicts.Washed-up medieval knight Hugo works the evening shift at a retirement home (for the conversations, not the blood). He hasn’t quite gotten over the collapse of chivalry or the horrors of World War I.Wilhelm was born in Austria nearly four hundred years ago. But since he looks like an eight-year-old boy, his romantic life is, understandably, nonexistent.Elizabeth has watched every episode of Bob Ross on VHS multiple times and has spent the last two thousand years trying to forget what happened when the Romans came.Their references are outdated, and only one of them knows how to use a smartphone, but these vampires have been ready to die for centuries and they’re willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen. Even if it means tracking down the people they most don’t want to see: their makers.Facing centuries of love and loss, this ramshackle team will need to do something they never thought possible: rely on their own kind. In the process, they might even discover that not having a beating heart doesn’t make them any less human.Half dysfunctional family saga, half historical epic, VILE THINGS LIKE US is the first release in a heartfelt vampire trilogy from bestselling dark fantasy author Robyn Abbott. Perfect for vampire lovers who are looking for something fresh.