Night to Dawn 50

Imagine moving into a house you believe will keep you safe from the denizens of the night, only to discover that the house itself is a vampire, luring unwary tenants inside for dinner. The Night to Dawn 50 vampires are unique. Instead of the traditional bloodsucker, the vampire may be a place or an object just as deadly as any creature of the night. Sometimes the protagonist is already battling personal demons before someone turns him into a vampire, as in Marc Shapiro's "Fright at Night." A vampire takes the form of a dangerous tunnel in Kevin R. Doyle's "The Throat;" woe betide the person who enters alone. A fanged pumpkin in Margaret L. Carter's "Night of the Living Gourd" threatens animals and people, but the story ends happily. I believe the spirits from the Thirty Years' War lingered in the experimental garden in Christopher's Cumo's "The Botanist," and during his travels, something infected Steinberg with immortality. A few stories conclude on a hopeful note, but most of the ones listed below end in darkness, proving that in Night to Dawn 50, a vampire can be anything-and it is almost never what you expect.
"Savages of Sawney's Cave" by Matthew Wilson
"The Fleshmongers" by Lee Clark Zumpe
"The Room of Skulls" by Marge Simon
"Greed" by Todd Hanks
"Metempsychosis" by Hillary Lyon
"Curtains" by Rod Marsden
"Love in Yellow Springs" by Linda Barrett
"Beelzebub's Portal to the Ninth Circle" by Rajeev Bhargava
"Beating" by Christopher T. Dabrowski
...and many others, including dark poetry and illustrations by Marge Simon, Sandy DeLuca, Denny E. Marshall, Chris Friend, Vin Davis, Elizabeth Hattie Pierce, and other contributors.