Reviews

International Books Award Finalist
"[F]ascinating insight into the beginning of the vampire legend in modern Western Europe." Gothic Readers Book Club "Andrew Barger, who pulled "The Black Vampyre" out of obscurity to include in his 2012 anthology The Best Vampire Stories 1800-1849, champions Sands as its author. Noting that Sands studied at the same institution as Richard Varick Dey, Barger theorizes that the writer modelled his pseudonym on the name of the latter man as a crafty effort to not only hide his identity, but also to misdirect any speculation. This would have been in line with Sands' prankish tendencies: he was fond of sharing quotations from authors and publications which, in reality, he had made up on the spot." - WWAC