All the World's an Undead Stage

'Old actors never die' shouldn't be literally true.Carrington Loveless III, skim-blood vampire and senior officer of Philly s paranormal police department, has long suspected that someone s targeting his squad. The increasingly bizarre and dangerous entities invading their city can t be a coincidence. So when a walking corpse spouting Oscar Wilde attacks one of his officers, Carrington s determined to uncover the evil mind behind it all.As a rare books librarian, Erasmus Graham thought he understood some of the stranger things in life. Sharing a life with Carrington has shown him he didn t know the half of it. They ve survived attack books and deadly dust bunnies together and got through mostly unscathed. Now his world and his vampire s appear ready to collide again. Books are missing from the Rare Book collection old tomes of magic containing dangerous summonings and necromancy. He s certain whoever has been stalking the Seventy-Seventh is composing their end game. It s going to take a consolidated effort from paranormal police, librarians and some not-quite-authorized civilians to head off the impending catastrophe.