6 Days…Anna Meadows on the Vampires in the Shadows
Until I wrote “La Caída” for Girls Who Bite, it never occurred to me that there had been vampires in the shadows of the stories I heard growing up. They may have been more violent than charming, and they may have gone by a different name, but they had always been there, the fodder not for fantasies, but for nightmares. In some stories, the nagual is only out for blood. In others, she changes herself into a wolf or a…