October 27
A Family of Vampires
After the theater in New York, G and his wife Lisa accept an invitation from an unusually pale family. Nothing overtly supernatural occurs, but the ordinary details become increasingly difficult to explain.
Beginning October 27 for five days, Scott Evers Dispatch presents VAMPIRE, self-contained literary audio stories released nightly through Halloween.
The seven-minute dispatches move from remembered encounters to purported interviews with living vampires, gradually constructing a plausible hidden society.
October 28
The Vampire Prince
Inside a cathedral in Tucson, G and his brother Fred attempt to separate Vlad the Impaler, Bram Stoker’s count, vampire folklore, and the many Draculas accumulated by popular culture.
October 29
My Friend the Vampire
A call from Roman Bly returns G to a candlelit night forty years earlier—two missing hours, a séance that may not have been a séance, and an attraction neither man has entirely forgotten.
October 30
What a Vampire Wants
Landau, an ancient vampire, answers questions about making another of his kind. What begins as an inquiry into companionship becomes a story about childhood, hunger, responsibility, love, and abandonment.
October 31
Ask a Vampire
On Halloween night, G hosts a call-in from his Mojave porch and relays listeners’ questions to Landau. Their conversation ranges across feeding, companionship, vampire customs, fear, and the one question an immortal cannot answer: what happens when a vampire dies?