Lover, Predator, Vampire: Milena in Bloodlust

By Dante Remy

"Before Carmilla or Dracula, there was Milena-the up r of Eastern Europe, lover and predator alike." - Vojtěch Novotn , Pravda Liter rn

A Vampire Unlike Any Other-Milena Awaits

Before the vampire became the elegant creation of nineteenth-century Gothic literature, older beliefs haunted the villages, forests, graveyards, and borderlands of Central and Eastern Europe. Here begins the story of Milena: woman, lover, predator-and up r.

Lover, Predator, Vampire: Book I, Milena in Bloodlust enters that older world, drawing deeply on the histories, folklore, religious beliefs, languages, rituals, and cultural traditions from which the vampire would eventually emerge. Against a landscape shaped by village life, ancient superstition, religious authority, aristocratic power, and cultures in transition, Milena confronts death only to awaken into something neither fully human nor easily contained by the later literary image of the vampire.

Her transformation brings freedom, but also an insatiable hunger. Milena moves from humble villages and ancient rites into chambers of privilege and aristocratic decadence, discovering a world in which desire and predation, ecstasy and death, sacred and profane continually cross. Lovers become both companions and prey as she confronts the central paradox of her existence: boundless appetite set against the lingering human need for intimacy, meaning, and connection.

This is not the tale of the remorseful modern vampire. Milena is seductive, dangerous, intelligent, and increasingly conscious of the power her new existence gives her. Her sexuality is neither incidental nor politely obscured. It becomes part of the novel's exploration of domination and vulnerability, mortality and immortality, faith and transgression, bodily desire and the terrifying freedom of living beyond the boundaries imposed upon ordinary human life.

Written by Dante Remy, whose work draws on extensive knowledge of Central and Eastern European history, languages, folklore, and cultural traditions, Milena in Bloodlust approaches the vampire not simply as a Gothic invention, but as a figure shaped by centuries of belief, fear, ritual, storytelling, and cultural memory.

The Lover, Predator, Vampire series is rooted in the histories, languages, folklore, religious traditions, and cultural practices of Central and Eastern Europe. Drawing on the region's ancient beliefs surrounding the restless dead and the later traditions of the up r and vampire, the novels explore the intersections of fear, desire, superstition, faith, sexuality, and power within vividly realized historical worlds. Their settings and cultural details are rendered with historical specificity rather than used as exotic backdrop, while the vampire itself is traced through folklore, literature, and its changing meanings across cultures. At the same time, the series is unapologetically explicit, bringing erotic desire, domination, violence, intimacy, and transgression into the foreground with an intensity rarely found in conventional historical or Gothic fiction. Historically rigorous. Culturally grounded. Literarily informed. Sexually transgressive.

Blood glistens like wine on waiting lips. Ancient fears stir beneath the soil. And somewhere between history and legend, Milena is waiting.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 196419492X
• ISBN13: 9781964194929
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Black Fern, an Imprint of Erosetti Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up