A reimagining of Dracula\u2019s voyage to England, filled with Gothic imagery and queer desire.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s an ordinary assignment, nothing more. The cargo? Fifty boxes filled with Transylvanian soil. The route? From Varna to Whitby. The Demeter has made many trips like this. The captain has handled dozens of crews.<\/p>\n

He dreams familiar dreams: to taste the salt on the skin of his men, to run his hands across their chests. He longs for the warmth of a lover he cannot have, fantasizes about flesh and frenzied embraces. All this he\u2019s done before, it\u2019s routine, a constant, like the tides.<\/p>\n

Yet there\u2019s something different, something wrong. There are odd nightmares, unsettling omens and fear. For there is something in the air, something in the night, someone stalking the ship.<\/p>\n

The cult vampire novella by Mexican author Jos\u00e9 Luis Z\u00e1rate is available for the first time in English. Translated by David Bowles and with an accompanying essay by noted horror author Poppy Z. Brite, it reveals an unknown corner of Latin American literature.<\/p>\n

Representation Includes<\/h4>\n

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• Eastern European gay male protagonist<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
  Content Warnings<\/div>

  Homophobia and homophobic violence; internalized homophobia and self-hatred; graphic sexual content; dubious-consent relationships; fantasies involving sexual assault; stereotypical portrayals and racial epithets of Romani\/North African people; disease; swarms of rats; general feeling of fear, hopelessness, and despair <\/div>