Ancient Vampires From The West

By Brooklyn Denaro

In Ancient Vampires From The West, a harsh fishing town named Blackwake has survived for generations by obeying one unwritten rule: never look too closely toward the western sea. But when strange lights rise beyond the harbor, old graves begin to stir, and pale noble creatures from ancient legend return to claim what was hidden beneath the abbey, that silence shatters.
At the centre of the story is Liora Vale, a stubborn young beacon keeper whose curiosity pulls her into a nightmare older than the town itself. As the harbor fills with the dead, buried tunnels awaken, and forgotten bargains resurface, Liora must uncover the truth about Blackwake's past before the western vampires turn the town into a gateway for something far worse.
Dark, atmospheric, and drenched in blood, dread, and ancient memory, this story blends gothic horror, supernatural suspense, and brutal vampire mythology into a tale of buried secrets, siege, and survival against an enemy as elegant as it is monstrous.

Primary characters
Liora Vale: Lighthouse keeper's daughter from Blackwake; the main protagonist and reluctant witness tied to the coast's old western machinery.
Jon Marr: Son of Blackwake's reeve; practical, brave, stubborn, and Liora's closest ally.
Ada Rook: Doctor/surgeon; sharp, unsentimental, and one of the most reliable people in any crisis.
Father Cale: Priest of Blackwake; increasingly forced to confront how little ordinary theology explains.
Mistress Wren: Blackwake's hard-edged civic strategist; practical, ruthless when needed, and often the clearest thinker in the room.
Sered Vey: A western envoy from House Evening; intelligent, dangerous, and more complicated than a simple enemy.
Ilyr: Ancient western harbor governor buried beneath Blackwake; a terrifying administrative mind who tries to rewrite the town through harbor law.
Important Blackwake characters:
Reeve Marr (Thomas Marr): Blackwake's reeve; long complicit in the town's secrecy, later forced into rougher honesty.
Mistress Fen: Old, formidable harbor woman with a cleaver and no patience for nonsense.
Nessa Pike: Bait seller from Blackwake; one of the first people affected by the beacon's bloodline call.
Mira Vale: Liora's dead mother; later used as a false face by a western warden.
Liora's father: Former keeper of Saint Brigid's; dead before the main action, but central through hidden notes, sabotages, and stored instructions.
The Old Harbor Master: One of the unshelved dead beneath Blackwake; once a harbor official, later crucial in resisting Ilyr.
The Customs-Seal Boy: An unshelved child-office from the underharbor; one of the most haunting remnants of the old system.
The Tally-Woman: Unshelved underharbor figure associated with counting and office.
The Old Harbor Master's "retained offices" / the unshelved: Former clerks, weighmen, berth-counters, labourers, and witnesses trapped in function after death.
Western / inhuman figures:
The White-Haired Diademed Woman: A mysterious high western figure seen through the Lantern and other thresholds; likely tied to the deeper court.
The Warden at Saint Brigid's: Western entity that first appears wearing Mira Vale's face, then sheds diplomacy and reveals its true form.
The Audit-Woman (Grayhaven): Ledger-bearing western correction officer who leads the fog auditors ashore at Grayhaven.
The Fog Auditors / portable correction offices: Western field offices in humanlike form, used to standardize and correct coastal nodes.
The Waiting Ship: The black vessel offshore at Grayhaven; less a simple ship than a node of pressure and review.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GW8BCPR3
• ISBN13: 9798255151363
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"