A reimagining of Dracula’s voyage to England, filled with Gothic imagery and queer desire. It’s 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. 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’s done before, it’s routine, a constant, like the tides. Yet there’s 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. The cult vampire novella by Mexican author José Luis Zárate 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.

Calvin De’muore is on the run. After a traumatizing event, Calvin is forced into hiding under the protection of Nathaniel Cross’ most esteemed bodyguard, Ezekiel Kelly. Now that Joaquin Hernando is dead, Athena and Jason Vanguard hold the reins to the Hernando syndicate. However, their most desired target, Sonny Silvestre, is missing, and what better way to draw him out than to capture the person closest to Calvin De’muore. Wanted, Calvin and Ezekiel must endure an on the road journey to New York City, with only each other to rely on. Forced into close proximity with the other, the two develop an everlasting bond. One that’s not just fulfilling, but essential for their survival. Sonny and Nathan’s story continues along with Calvin’s in the second installment of the Echelon Saga, Convalescence.