There is something exciting, intriguing and scary about vampires. Perhaps it is the idea of something creeping into your bedroom at night, slipping under the covers, snuggling up and then sinking teeth into your soft unprotected skin. Perhaps it is the thought of being infected and forever roaming the streets and bedrooms of the World in search of soft skin to bite and blood to suck.
Whatever is the fascination with vampires, it occurred to me a while ago that I hadn’t written any vampire stories. I’d written plenty of ghost stories and paranormal stories but nothing specifically on vampires.
However, I did not want my vampire story to be straight forward horror and tension because I believe that true horror comes from the commonplace when it suddenly becomes realistically dangerous. A visit to the kitchen for a coffee becomes a convincingly life-threatening experience. A hand comes out of your computer screen and grasps you by the throat to drag you into an unimaginably violent and threatening world.
So I wrote my vampire short story and called it ‘The Unwilling Vampire‘. It is set in a small town and features a rather attractive female cub journalist, a frosty senior newspaper editor – and, of course, a vampire.
I hope you enjoy my vampire story 
Bye for now
Rob