Morningstar

"Atkins knows how to tell a story and keeps this one thrumming with tension. Devotees of dark suspense will find it to their liking." - Publishers Weekly "An audacious mix of vampires, ghosts, goddesses, and psychopaths. Wonderful stuff!" - Neil Gaiman "Morningstar is a wonderful book - intelligent, well-written and filled with memorable scenes and images." - Bentley Little "Atkins is a brilliant supplier of shudders and splendors." - Clive Barker. FACT: When Stephen Lumby was being slaughtered he lost as much sweat induced by mortal terror, as he would have lost on a two-mile run.. FACT: Although the majority of Katharine Elizabeth Ferritti was found in a deserted hardware store, smaller pieces of her were still being discovered by sewer workers up to two months after her killing.. FACT: Lumby, Ferritti and ten other people were all murdered in the first eleven days of June. Their ages ranged from eight to sixty-one. In each case, on the available surface nearest to the body, scrawled in the victim's blood, was a single word:. MORNINGSTAR. Facts not released by the police: in each case, the cause of the death was rupture of the heart by a sharpened wooden stake; in each case the victim's mouth was stuffed with garlic.