title: Reign of the Vampire: A Tribute to the Perseverance of Bela Lugosi
author:  Leo Wiltshire 
description: Leo Wiltshire lives in Virginia with his wife, Eileen, their dog and black cat, and whatever foster child is placed with them. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communications degree from Bridgewater State University in Bridgewater, MA, and a Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership degree from Regent University in Virginia Beach, VA. He has been a fan of Bela Lugosi since 1968 when, as a boy, he was afraid that Dracula and the Frankenstein monster were hiding in his bedroom closet, waiting to get him every night as he fell asleep. As an adult, Leo now understands that there is no such thing as monsters hiding in the closet. They're under the bed!!!
zlib_text:   
  
  Julian Savage hesitated outside the door to the crowded bar. He had come to
  this city for one last errand before he would choose a Carpathian's eternal
  rest. Almost an ancient of his race, he was weary of the centuries of living
  in a stark, gray world void of the intense colors and emotions known to the
  younger males of his kind, or to those who had found a lifemate. Still, he had
  one last goal to accomplish, one more thing asked of him by his Prince, and
  then he could meet the life-destroying dawn with an easy mind. It wasn't that
  he was on the verge of losing his soul, of turning vampire; he could hold out
  longer should he choose. It was the bleakness of his life, stretching an
  eternity before him, that had dictated his decision.
  
  Yet he could not refuse this errand. In the long centuries of his existence,
  he felt he had given little to his dwindling race. True, he was a vampire
  hunter, one of the more powerful, which was considered a great thing among his
  people. But he knew, as