HS04 - Unholy Awakening (35 page)
We are indebted to Paul Barber’s marvellous
Vampires, Burial and Death – Folklore & Reality
(Yale University Press, 1988) in deciding what was feasible, and what was not.
Dissertazione Sopra I Vampiri
, first published in 1741 by Archbishop Giuseppe Davanzati of Trani (Besa, 1998, a cura di G. Annibaldis), was equally valuable.
Special thanks to our agent, Leslie Gardner, our editor, Walter Donohue, our project editor, Katherine Armstrong and everybody at Faber & Faber for their continuing support.
Critique of Criminal Reason
Days of Atonement
A Visible Darkness
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
A THOMAS DUNNE BOOK FOR MINOTAUR BOOKS.
An imprint of St. Martin’s Publishing Group.
UNHOLY AWAKENING.
Copyright © 2010 by Michael Gregorio. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcoveredition as follows:
Gregorio, Michael.
Unholy awakening / Michael Gregorio.—1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.
ISBN: 978-0-312-62502-3
1. Stiffeniis, Hanno (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Police magistrates—Germany—Prussia—Fiction. 3. Murder—Investigation—Fiction. 4. Superstition—Fiction. 5. Prussia (Germany)—Rural conditions—Fiction. I. Title.
PR6107.R4447U65 2010
823'.92—dc22
2010030316
First published in Great Britain by Faber and Faber Limited
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I chose purposely to avoid using the word ‘vampire’. It had already been used too often.