A vampire from New Orleans reunites with an ailing reporter to recount a life of bloodlust and toxic romance with the sinister Frenchman who turned him.
"In throes of increasing wonder ... "
" ... after the phantoms of your former self"
"Is my very nature that of the devil"
" ... the ruthless pursuit of blood with all a child's demanding"
"A vile hunger for your hammering heart"
"Like angels put in Hell by God"
"The thing lay still"