Upon receiving a report about some noisy teenagers having a party up on a hill on the outskirts of the city, the police stumbles upon a group of people performing a pagan ritual.
Amidst the madness around the bonfire, a policeman catches a glimpse of a woman running for her life behind the tree line.
He follows to discover a peculiar old man taking the woman's life before his eyes. The old man is taken to a prison hospital and as his sessions with a psychiatrist begin - it appears as if the strange circumstances surrounding the woman's death have come to an end and the guilty have been brought to justice.
But the true horror is just about to begin...
FROM THE FOREWORD
I have written this novel in its original form a very long time ago, in year 2005. "Vampire Grimoire" was originally just what is, in this book, Part One - Rebirth. The second part I've written in 2007 and then rewritten in 2008. Part Two - Huntress, with respect to the timeline of the story, happens before Part One.
One thing that I've included in the novel, that wasn't there before, are photos of certain locations in Zagreb, my home city. Being a very visual person, I thought it would be beneficial for the story to actually be able to place yourself physically in the story instead of just imagining what the place looks like especially as I don't spend a lot of time describing locations in this book.
Most of the characters and events in this book were inspired by actual events that happened in my life and the lives of people that I knew at that time. It is because of this reason that all of the names in this book have been changed for privacy reasons and any potential resemblance of names, as they are now, to any real people is entirely coincidental and not intentional.
Going back to the story, there are many parts where you may feel that there are loose ends left behind. This is sometimes not intentional, as I wanted to maintain the focus on something else in the story. And sometimes it is intentional, as I wanted some things to be implicit and leave it to my readers to figure out.
Many of my friends and acquaintances have already read this book and know this story. Some of them also knew which characters were based on real people and knew what really happened, so they also looked at the story from that perspective as well.
However, it was quite interesting how different their interpretations of what happened in the story were. This is the main reason why I wanted to keep some things open to interpretation, as it's quite rewarding to hear the story, which plays out in only way in my mind, to play out in so many other ways in other people's minds. And to my satisfaction - the way they tell the story sometimes turns out to be an even more interesting story than the one I had in mind when I was writing it.
I always used to say to people that I shared this book with- "half of this book is based on actual events and the other half is just fantasy used to spice things up a bit". Some people, after reading the book, found this intrigue as contributing to the story's charm while others, well, not at all, and as you read the book, I'm sure you'll understand why.
