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Nine books, one blood moon, and a hunter who keeps writing the case down. Read chapter one of any volume free — the whole book lives on Google Play Books.
The Newest Volume
A Van Helsing Case File
“The first body was never meant to be found.”
Autumn, 1888. Abraham Van Helsing arrives in Whitechapel to bury an old friend and finds the district already knee-deep in corpses. Something is walking the fog with a surgeon's precision — and it is not, strictly speaking, alive.
BK 04 of the Van Helsing series
The Volumes
“Prague keeps every debt. Even his.”
The hunt began in Prague, where a shadow older than the city has been waiting for Abraham Van Helsing to come back. What follows him out of the Old Town is not a creature. It is everything he failed to kill the first time.
“The fog followed him home.”
Van Helsing meant to leave England quietly. Instead the fog handed him a reckoning — a debt of blood owed in London, and a collector who never stopped counting.
“London's nights belong to the hunter now.”
London after midnight belongs to the hunter now. But the more streets he clears, the clearer it becomes that something is clearing them for him.
“The first body was never meant to be found.”
Autumn, 1888. Abraham Van Helsing arrives in Whitechapel to bury an old friend and finds the district already knee-deep in corpses. Something is walking the fog with a surgeon's precision — and it is not, strictly speaking, alive.
“She wore white. The district wore mourning.”
A bride who died forty years ago is being married again, street by street, in the fog. Van Helsing knows the name she answers to. He is the only living man who does.
“Every killer leaves a reason. This one left a written one.”
A confession surfaces in a dead man's handwriting, signed by a living woman. To close the case Van Helsing must decide which of the two is lying — and whether he can survive the answer either way.
“The moon came back red. So did she.”
The blood moon rises over Whitechapel for the first time in forty years, and the district walks into the street to meet it. Van Helsing has one night, one crossbow and one name left to bury properly.
“Forty years sealed. Four days open.”
The chapel where it began has been unsealed, and something inside it has been counting the days. Van Helsing returns to the one door he swore he would never open again.
“The bride stops running.”
Filia Lilith sheds the last of her human shape, and every bargain Van Helsing made to keep her contained comes due at once.
Reader Verdicts
5 / 5
I have read a lot of Victorian horror and none of it has made the fog feel like a character before. Van Helsing is written as a tired man rather than a hero, which is far more frightening than a hero would have been.
5 / 5
The congregation in the street is the most unnerving image in the whole series — no screaming, no chase, just hundreds of people standing quietly and looking up. I read the last third standing up.
5 / 5
She is never once described as a monster. That is what makes her terrifying. The scene in Miller's Court where the lamps simply finish is the single best page in the series so far.
4 / 5
Book three slows the pace down and it earns every second of it. The handwriting reveal had me put the book down and walk around the room. Four stars only because I wanted another fifty pages of Abberline.
5 / 5
I picked this up as a standalone and immediately went back and bought books one through three. The blood moon timeline on the lore page is what sold me. Waiting on Book 5 now.