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William J. Donahue

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William J. Donahue lives in a small but well-guarded fortress somewhere on the map between Philadelphia and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. When he's not writing fiction, entertaining his cats, or wandering quietly in the woods, he works as a magazine editor and features writer. ...more

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Vampire Hunters: An Incomplete Record of Personal Accounts

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William Donahue said: " Man, what an incredible anthology: elegant, eerie, and gloriously ghoulish. It's an extraordinarily clever approach to an anthology about vampires and the humans who hunt them, with some terrific stories about vampires across oceans of time and space ...more "

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