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The Fell of Dark

Caleb Roehrig
Chapters (46)
  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Notice
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. CAST OF CHARACTERS
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  43. LITTLE WHITE PICKET FENCES
  44. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  45. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  46. Newsletter Sign-up

Title Page

The Fell of Dark by Caleb Roehrig

Copyright Notice

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Dedication

For my mother-in-law, Māra Trapans.

I aspire to make people feel as special and loved as you do, and I’m so lucky to call you my family!

Epigraph

One can’t build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out.

—Anne Sexton

CAST OF CHARACTERS

HUMANS

August Pfeiffer: Aka Auggie. Good at art, bad at math, possibly Earth’s only chance to prevent the apocalypse.

Daphne Banks: Auggie’s math tutor, a college student whose vampire-hunter parents taught her a few tricks of the trade.

Adriana Verdugo: Auggie’s best friend, an aspirant witch.

Hope Cheng: The only other student in Auggie’s independent art study, and the girl of Adriana’s dreams.

Ximena Rosales: Adriana’s grandmother, an experienced bruja. The best cook in Fulton Heights, Illinois.

Gunnar Larsen: Mostly competent barista, partial to cool dude-necklaces. The boy of Auggie’s dreams.

The Brotherhood of Perseus: Aka “the Brotherhood,” aka “the Knights,” aka “the Perseans.” A chivalric order of mortal knights, established in the twelfth century, with a sacred mission to protect humankind from the undead. A secret society that continues to this day.

Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova: Youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the last emperor of Russia. Executed with her family in 1918.

Marie Antoinette, Queen of France: Wife of King Louis XVI, wearer of enormous wigs. Executed in Place de la Révolution in 1793.

Anne Boleyn, Queen of England: Second wife of King Henry VIII, mother of Queen Elizabeth I. Executed at the Tower of London in 1536.

Mac Bethad mac Findlaích: Mormaer of Moray, later King of Scotland, killed at the Battle of Lumphanan in 1057. The inspiration for Shakespeare’s infamous tragedy, Macbeth.

VAMPIRES

The Syndicate of Vampires: An ancient association of undead bloodlines. Headquartered in the Carpathian Mountains, it is the closest thing the undead have to a governing body.

The League of the Dark Star: Aka “the League.” An undead society founded in the sixteenth century by Erasmus Kramer. Now led by Viviane Duclos, it is devoted to the myths of the Corrupter.

The Mystic Order of the Northern Wolf: Aka “the Order,” aka “Northern Wolf.” A Corrupter cult established in the early twentieth century by Grigori Rasputin. Dangerous and unpredictable, its membership is unknown.

Jude Marlowe: Born ca. 1590 in London, England, and Turned in 1607, he works for the Syndicate of Vampires. His bloodline is led by Hecuba.

Viviane Duclos: French sorceress, leader of the League of the Dark Star. Born in 1662 outside Chantilly, France, and condemned to die in 1681, she was rescued from her jail cell and Turned by Erasmus Kramer.