It started when I heard about a reporter in New York who disappeared one day while investigating Manhattan's vampire cults. In other words, it's about the diversity of the manifestations of how the vampire mythology speaks to people these days.
Some stories are poignant and some romantic, while others are truly shocking.
It's a contoversial book, there's no doubt. I was interested in seeing how vampire culture was evolving as we closed down the millennium, and then when this reporter disappeared, it opened up a way for me to go in. Sometimes I talked with people as myself, and sometimes I used a vampire persona. So I provided context from fiction and film. I also interviewed other vampire scholars, and some psychologists and theologians.