Spoilers!
A most odd thing. Can’t find who recommended it to me. It’s only around 70 pages and is a magical realist retelling of Stalin’s ascent to power and his horrible and bloody legacy due to his involvement with a very licentious1 and decently interesting vampire coven2. There’s this Dorian Gray angle to the story that was rather confusing and I think unnnecessary. I really didn’t understand the ending (or maybe just don’t want to accept it).
Régis Penet captures the hopelessness, danger, and decrepitude very well.
Because “Vampires Are Sex Gods” (TV Tropes)↩︎
They’re all connected to each other (spiritually and otherwise) and share everything; think Sinners.↩︎