Opium and Absinthe
A Novel
by Lydia Kang
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appears in Vampire, Mystery & Crime, and Fantasy.
New York City, 1899. Tillie Pembroke_x0092_s sister lies dead, her body drained of blood and with two puncture wounds on her neck. Bram Stoker_x0092_s new novel, Dracula, has just been published, and Tillie_x0092_s imagination leaps to the impossible: the murderer is a vampire. But it can_x0092_t be_x0097_can itA ravenous reader and researcher, Tillie has something of an addic...
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