1930
FEAR FROM ABOVE
Military
intelligence officer Richard Knight battles vampires led by the Grandmaster,
who once survived the fires of Mount Vesuvius, and who calls himself “Sir
Fran…” before being shot at by Knight. The vampires kill all those aboard the
ship Western Star, including Captain
Edward “Evil” Larsen, the son of a sea captain with an explosive temper who
traded in the Pacific, and was often accused of piracy in whispers. Knight
consults a judge who is an expert on the occult about vampires.
Short story by Frank Schildiner in The
New Adventures of Richard Knight, Tommy
Hancock, ed., Pro Se Productions, 2012. Richard Knight appeared in stories by
Donald E. Keyhoe in the pulp magazine Flying Aces. The Grandmaster is Sir Francis Varney from James Malcolm Rymer’s Varney
the Vampire. Evil Larsen’s father is Wolf
Larsen from Jack London’s novel The Sea-Wolf. The Judge is Manly Wade Wellman’s Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant. All
these connections bring Richard Knight into the CU. The Empire State Building
is still under construction, placing this story in 1930 or early 1931.
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