The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

And by the time this story is over, they will be covered in blood.

Some of it will be theirs. Some of it will belong to others. But they will drip with it. They will swim in it. They will drown in it.

she’d learned two things: they were all in this together, and if their husbands ever took out a life insurance policy on them they were in trouble.

This story ends in blood

that makes us human—they have no friends, no family, no roots, no children. All they have is hunger. They eat and eat but they’re never full.

am not sure what the appropriate gesture is to make toward the family of the woman who bit off your ear, but if you felt absolutely compelled, I certainly wouldn’t take food.”

t took eleven stitches to close the wound and she had to have a tetanus shot, but they couldn’t reattach her earlobe because Mrs.
Savage had swallowed it.

Get a life, Slick,” Kitty said,

THREE YEARS LATER…
CLEAR AND PRESENT
DANGER

THE STRANGER BESIDE ME

THE BRIDGES OF MADISON