Barnabas, Quentin and the Hidden Tomb

This is another of the stories set in the past, this one in 1866 not long after the end of the Civil War. Ellen is a young woman who is rich. She wants to marry a guy named Stephen Gray and goes to his home only to find out he was involved in a barn fire and was badly injured.

Her aunt goes along with her. It turns out the guy's lawyer is a total slob, there's a vampire on the loose in the area and her dear Stephen is not at all what he seems to be. From the back cover we find that her aunt has been killed by a vampire.

So, Ellen goes to New York to find Barnabas who, very surprisingly, is no longer a vampire at all but an actor. The plan is for him to go with her back to Stephen's place, find out what is going on with the vampire attacks, find out what is going on with a mysterious major, a mysterious peep-show peddler (scenes of the war and things like that, not sex images by the way), deal with how Ellen fails to understand the consequences of 'don't go out alone,' learn about a werewolf problem and get to meet Quentin.

Oh, yes, and also she has to survive. A lot happening and a rather different Barnabas novel.

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