About the Author
Antony J. Stanton was born in a Parisian slum in the 1700’s. He worked the docks at the port of Le Havre before an incident with a jealous ship-owner’s wife saw him hounded by hired thugs. If not for the intervention of a beguiling vampiress who, for her own dark reasons, took an interest in Stanton, he’d no doubt have been lynched. In saving him, the vampiress turned Stanton into a foul blood-sucker, and he soon found himself preying on those who would surely have seen him dead.
Being over two hundred years old, it’s not surprising he’s now almost bald, and his friends have always said his clothes are somewhat dated. He spent the past two centuries living in draughty, disused rooms of crumbling French châteaux and old English mansions, feeding off rats and ageing aristocrats, and researching the history of his night-walking fellows. And now, dear reader, over a century since Bram Stoker raised public awareness of the vampire in his survival manual—wrongly mistaken for fiction—it’s time for Stanton to publish the true account of his adopted species and set the record straight.
Or perhaps he just has a vivid imagination. Perhaps the vampire genre is long overdue a fresh lease of life, a new origins story, an epic and sprawling plot across countries and continents and millennia, a thrilling story of a complex underground society with their own rules and myths, rivalries and vendettas, living alongside and meddling with the affairs of humanity.
And perhaps Antony J. Stanton actually lives in London with wife, dog, and cat, where he enjoys writing award-winning gripping, multi-charactered vampire sagas—think “Game of Thrones” meets “Dracula”. Perhaps he has already written a post-apocalyptic vampire/zombie horror trilogy that rose to Amazon’s #3 for genre. But sometimes, reality is as incredible as fiction—almost.
Whatever the truth of being shot at in Ghana, kidnapped in Kazakhstan, being struck by lightning, whatever the lies behind his vampiric conversion in 1700’s Paris, he definitely did win the prestigious 2026 Bookfest Award For Horror . Go to his website and sign up for his newsletter to find out more about such outlandish stories, and about his epic and sprawling vampire saga. Ladies and gentlemen, mesdames et messieurs, I give you the Blood of the Dragon series.
Dear reader, I envy you, because for you it begins right here and now.
For updates on the book release and the writing of Antony J. Stanton, for sneak-peaks, cover-reveals, maybe even an early glimpse of the first few chapters, sign up for the newsletter and receive the free novella, “Speak of the Devil” – linked to the Blood of the Dragon series.
Receive an email every few weeks with fascinating stories of vampires, dark fantasy and horror from around the world, gruesome tales about Bram Stoker and Vlad Dracula, musings on films and literature, occasional interviews with other authors, and much more. Link up with other link-minded fans of the dark and macabre.
Come. Join us.
