Michael Stephens 
Alabama Vampire 

In Aaron Burr County, Alabama, a primitive land still barely recovered from the long-ago Civil War, Hank Grissel makes his living at a most unenviable task: supplying victims for his master, a planter with an insatiable thirst for human blood. By turns fawning and ferocious, cowardly and desperate, Grissel combines incredible crudity with homespun Southern philosophy as he butchers his way across Alabama. With a journalist following the trail of bodies, can this lewd tomcat of a man escape justice?

Replete with warring rival Klans, backwoods prophecy, and neo-segregationist politicians, all exploited by the enterprising Grissel, Alabama Vampire is a dark and comic novel of the freakish South, with laughter and horror on every page.

Über den Autor

Michael Stephens is a native Southerner who has traveled through Alabama many times, never staying long. Perhaps because of his early education at the hands of Northern immigrants, he is commonly mistaken for a Yankee, and occasionally for some other species of foreigner. This has led to many ugly incidents between Stephens and more authentic Southerners. Nevertheless, he continues to write about the South, which he describes as “a land of heroic weirdness.” Stephens lives in Florida, where he can blend in among other quasi-Southerners. He is the author (as Edward Radclyffe) of another novel, Madness is Catching.