“Don’t Tell Anyone What Happened In The Summer House!”

77. Evil on the Bayou – Richie Tankersley Cusick

This member of the Twilight: Where Darkness Begins series is also Richie Tankersley Cusick’s first novel. It’s a little more apparent that this is a first effort if you’ve read her later novel Blood Roots, which is a very similar story, but darker and more fully developed. Sorry, Meg. But it’s okay, many people find being around their families draining, even if it’s not as nefarious as the situation with Meg and her Aunt Belle and her Aunt Belle’s conspiratorially weird doctor in that isolated Louisiana swamp mansion. And some people find people draining no matter what and have no swamp mansion to retire to, or their inherited swamp mansion’s about to be bulldozed like in Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte. Basically, there are a lot of ways to be a mad old bat or to be drained in the swamp, provided there is mansion availability, and this is one of them.

Horace shall remain undrained for any reason as we have no mansion available.

 

Speaking of questionably non-vampiric draining… Horace Martin.